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e30d #4 - The Republic of Dreams (Mathcastles) Object: Terraforms Level 7 at {22, 3} Artist: Mathcastles Owner: HEEEEEEEEEEE Date: August 2023 Terraforms, a digital art collection by the anonymous coding duo Mathcastles, was a radical rejection of the status quo when it launched on the Ethereum blockchain in December 2021. The work finds positive meaning through a series of rejections: - that blockchains are merely a storage device for finished work. - that digital art objects should be complete upon collection. - that visual aesthetics are the primary criterion for art. With Terraforms, we see digital objects morph into something different as the very idea of digital art is redefined through the project. Terraforms is an open, living work in which art provides the base layer for a virtual world.