• Imaginary Cities — London (11010962736)
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Michael Takeo Magruder

Imaginary Cities — London (11010962736),

Real-time generative environment, NFT

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Imaginary Cities — London (11010962736) is an ever-changing digital 'landscape' by Michael Takeo Magruder that is created from a historic map of late-Georgian London found within the British Library's One Million Images from Scanned Books collection on Flickr Commons. The artwork consists of a custom Flash program that generates a never-ending video sequence from an entire year of processed image data which has been compiled by the project’s online server application. The ephemeral visuals are constantly remixed in real time and are accompanied by an algorithmic soundscape that completes the aesthetic experience.

Further information: http://www.takeo.org/nspace/2019-ic-london/

About Michael Takeo Magruder

Michael Takeo Magruder is a visual artist who works with new media including real-time data, digital archives, immersive environments, mobile devices, and virtual worlds. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world. In works such as Lamentation for the Forsaken (2016) and Zero Tolerance (2018), Magruder reflects on migration issues in the Syrian Civil War and the US Southern Border, respectively.

In the last 20 years, Michael’s projects have been showcased in over 280 exhibitions in 35 countries, and his art has been supported by numerous institutions within the UK, US, and EU. In 2010, he represented the UK at Manifesta 8 - the European Biennial of Contemporary Art and several of his most well-known digital artworks were added to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. As a Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence, Michael produced De/coding the Apocalypse (2014), a solo exhibition exploring contemporary creative visions based on the Book of Revelation. The following year, he was awarded the 2015 Immersive Environments Lumen Prize for his VR installation A New Jerusalem. As artist-in-residence at the British Library, Magruder researched digital map archives and the One Million Images from Scanned Books collection.

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Token Standard: ERC-721
Blockchain: Ethereum
Metadata: Frozen and decentralized
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Imaginary Cities — London (11010962736)