Index Gallery

Software Design & Creative Direction

Index Gallery explores the convergence of coding, design, and the bitcoin blockchain

Rewind to Jan 3, 2009
Satoshi Nakamoto mined Bitcoin Genesis Block 0, which included the original inscription: a news clipping about central bank bailouts
Bitcoin Genesis Block — the original inscription, a news clipping about central bank bailouts

Fast-forward to Jan 20, 2023

Bitcoin has become the most decentralized, secure, and trusted settlement layer in the world

We can now permanently inscribe digital content onto individual satoshis

Internet Art
Networked Artworks
Bitcoin Inscriptions unlock new creative posibilites for artists. Features like recursive inscriptions enable the integration of creative tools like Tone.js and P5.js
Bitcoin provenance creates traceable connections between inscriptions
Bitcoin inscription — code and vector graphics artwork
Built with code and vector graphics, these inscriptions easily scale to any display size
By leveraging code, every inscription in this collection weighs under 10 kilobytes
Space & Time — 4D Bitcoin inscription artwork
Space & Time
4D

Fast-forward to Jan 31, 2037

Civilization begins to remember forever
The Library of Alexandria is born again
Lunar eclipse, September 28, 2015 — photograph by Deanne Fortnam