Cosmic Reef

Leo Villareal

1024 unique artworks

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“A particular order can be found in deepest space, in our oceans and forests, and in all living things, including ourselves – a unified code producing endless variation. Gravity and cosmic winds shape star-forming nebulas into coral-like forms. Flowers self-organize in radial symmetry with signals hidden from the human eye. Stars are birthed, explode, collapse, and are reborn. Invertebrates move on the tides of oceans, signaling with ever-changing bioluminescence. Light bends time as events unfold in our own lives.”

Cosmic Reef reflects on the ordered randomness in nature, capable of producing beauty and symmetry. The individual works begin with a simple geometry that becomes more complex through composed dynamic layers, each born of a combination of human control and computational chance.

Leo Villareal creates intricate sculptures that speak to the underlying rules and structures of systems for both gallery and public settings. He is interested in exploring ways to express this through base units such as pixels and binary code. Villareal is most known for two monumental public artworks: The Bay Lights, a site-specific light sculpture that occupies the entire western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and Illuminated River, a series of generative light sculptures installed on nine bridges over the River Thames in London.

CONTROLS:

“Z”: Journey along the Z-axis

Cosmic Reef is graphics intensive & requires a WebGL2-enabled browser.

RELEASE DATE

24 Jan 2022

LIBRARY

three@0.124.0

SALES NOTES

Dutch auction starting at 5 ETH and lowering every 5 minutes to a resting price of 0.1 ETH with the following tiers: 5.0, 4.6, 4.2, 3.8, 3.4, 3.0, 2.7, 2.4, 2.1, 1.8, 1.5, 1.2, 1.0, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4, 0.2, 0.1

RELEASE DETAILS

1024 works released on 24 Jan 2022

PROJECT ID

0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270-250

CONTRACT

Etherscan

LICENSE

Villareal Studio Ownership License

250000104

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Leo Villareal

b. 1967 Albuquerque, NM Lives and works in New York, NY

Leo Villareal is an NYC-based artist who makes light sculptures with computational elements. He is represented by Pace Gallery and is known for creating large-scale, site-specific artworks such as The Bay Lights in San Francisco and Illuminated River in London. Villareal’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern A...

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