DROP: https://xyz.floriankuhlmann.com/INTERNET_AS_A_POPULIST_TECHBASED_ART_SYSTEM/

‚Texttoken 0725_01 tokenized‚ is a conceptual blockchain artwork that explores the internet itself as a medium of collective authorship and automated value production.

Each letter of the sentence “INTERNET AS A POPULIST TECH-BASED ART SYSTEM” exists as an individual on-chain token within an ERC-1155 contract. Together, they form a complete semantic and visual system — a self-contained statement about the technological and ideological structures of networked culture.

The work functions simultaneously as code, text, and image:

every token generates its own SVG directly from the smart contract and reflects the evolving ownership structure on-chain. Minting a letter changes not only its visual state (white to black) but also redefines the social distribution of the phrase — the internet literally rewriting itself through participation.

By fragmenting a statement about art and technology into tradable digital signs, Kuhlmann turns the blockchain into both the subject and the site of the artwork — a feedback system in which meaning, authorship, and value circulate algorithmically.

The artwork is currently on view in the group exhibition “ALL IN / 8” at Galerie Falko Alexander in Cologne, and — true to its concept — also accessible online as a live, evolving system on the blockchain.

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