Mar Abierto
One of the triggers of the work was to represent the Opensea site which, when we put what it is in the search engine, we find that they define it as “the largest market to sell and create non-fungible tokens (NFT)” “Virtual market where anyone can acquire digital works of art, virtual objects or avatars from different metaverses and video games” although they suggest that it is suitable for anyone to get what they sell, it is a necessary demand to create a virtual cryptocurrency wallet, an issue that ends up not being accessible to all people due to different variables. (materials, knowledge or accessibility and because in some countries they do not accept these virtual markets). The work contains the logo of the Opensea site but its logo is in Spanish so there is an intervention in the reproduction, leaving the name “Open Sea” this name that sounded more interesting to me in my native language, another of the differences between the page and the work is that its dissemination, although it is not known by all people, is free access and they can observe the works or programs that are offered for free, obviously contacting what is necessary to make it run (cell phone, computer, tablet, etc.). The last differentiation with the Opensea website is clearly notable since its aesthetics and page design is completely different, the page offers different sections and classifications of what is sold, in addition to putting the rankings of the best sellers, best rated and with the most views, in the work that I present I try to give you through the gallery that a different approach is observed in aesthetics, the visual and what is conceptually understood.
Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development
Regarding the technical and paraphrasing César Aira “One of the traditional filters against proliferation was the difficult and long learning of artistic techniques” (in this case he mentions art techniques in painting, sculpture and drawing) techniques that for contemporary art “are not necessary” but are tools in search of the originality that a work can provide. That said, I believe that programming is an artistic technique since learning it is necessary for the creation of the work and I agree with Aira when mentioning that originality is sought by understanding different types of techniques within programming which make typing something a little more understandable. “Arrays” and “for” were used in combination to save the photos and phrases that were observed and scroll through them in time. On the other hand, each image has a specific time of five seconds set by variables, as well as the times in which the image changes and blurred transitions which we can see in the background of the work. Aesthetically it was designed to generate an impact with what is observed and that by containing informative phrases about the problems that the seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, among others, due to human invasion, can become aware of these situations and act. The conceptual development was designed with the aim of generating a critical analysis of the work and what is observed beyond the literality of the phrases and images, it also seeks to understand what the opensea virtual market offers us, so on the one hand we have the criticism of human pollution specifically in “Open Sea” where the work itself becomes a protest and on the other hand the impact caused on an environmental level by the expenditure of energy that supports the processes. The last conceptual analysis before making the work was to think about the quantitative and qualitative assessment that they make on art, generating standards of asymmetries between what is the best, what is a trend, what is aesthetically correct, the excessive reproduction of images with slight modifications which are strictly original since they are unique, art is taking a direction that does not allow us to discern whether it is or is not.
Literature
AIRA, Cesar. (2010). “Sobre el arte contemporáneo”. Buenos Aires.
BREA, Jose Luis (2008). “Redefinicion de las practicas artisticas” Barcelona.