A home for experimental networked generative art

Most people see an ERC20 and think meme coin. That says more about the culture than the technology. An ERC20 is just a container. What makes it art is what the artist puts inside.

The ERC20 standard opens up an artistic surface area that NFTs can't provide. That's the medium. Block data, price movement, holder behavior, participation patterns, economic structure. All of it is onchain. All of it is available. All of it is material for networked generative art.

Some works respond to trading. Some respond to time. Some respond to the structure of the market itself. The artist decides which inputs matter and how the work transforms in response. The network isn't distribution. The network is the material.

The problem is that nowhere shows this work as work. NFT platforms show NFTs. DEXs show price charts. If you put art on an ERC20, most wallets won't render it and most platforms won't display it. People see a ticker symbol and a chart.

The art lives on the contract. It just needs a place that presents it that way.

New Material is that place. Browse it. Trade it. See it for what it is.