Black box filled with red gitching technologies

Beeple

CHOOSE VIOLENCE

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Reality is subjective. Choose violence.

The Tree of Knowledge is a digitally-programmed sculpture which responds in real time to events around the world, with three possible states – signal, noise and violence. The artwork, part of the Lingotto collection, encompasses Beeple’s reflections on the subjective nature of our individual realities, and on a hypothetical symbiosis between technology and nature.

VIOLENCE is a state of conflict. Activated at the push of a button, Beeple has placed an upper limit on the number of times it can be triggered before the tree remains aflame forever. With this mechanic he makes the point that, outside of the simulation, there is also an upper limit on the number of times we can make this choice before our reality is damaged beyond repair.

Printmakers at Make-Ready in London have transformed a static representation of the tree during its choose violence sequence into a fine-tuned UV pigment print with a satin varnish seal.

"We all get to choose our own reality."

Beeple

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Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, is the unlikely hero of the digital age. His weird, epic, dystopian images and animations are bursting with political satire – underscored by macabrely entertaining titles like Elon Baby Breastfeeding Himself and Tom Hanks Beats the Shit Out Of Coronavirus. On 1 May 2007, Mike began his seminal project Everydays. He created a jpeg and put it online. Then he did the same thing the next day and the day after. Over 15 years later, he's never missed a day. Comprising more than 6000 artworks, Everydays is now a landmark in the history of digital art. Not only did the project’s first 5000 instalments become the first purely digital work Christie's ever sold, realising a mammoth $69,346,250 at auction in 2021, but it also helped establish the everyday as a movement within digital culture – a practice that many artists have since adopted.

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