(2022-4) $HASHY and other Machine Iconographies

$HASHY
A key character in the 0xSalon's "The Art of Indifference" projects, $HASHY is a virtual ‘mascot’ influencer created by the ‘thermocapitalist cartel’ of Bitcoin miners—advised by the Byzantine Business School’s Professor Hugh Bristix—who controls the majority of Bitcoin mining on Earth. $HASHY is used as a means to rehabilitate the miners’ public image and to serve as an apologist for Bitcoin's ever-increasing carbon consumption. 

Looming prominently on stage and screen, $HASHY serves as a literal and figurative projection of the mortidinal economics of combustive capital.

Prophet Motives
Prophet Motives explores imbrications of capital, technology, and divinity, with attention paid to the reshaping of the world map by would-be empires and their messianic figureheads. For as long as there has been financial capital, risk and speculation have orbited, manipulated and harvested from it. As narrative feedback machines, simultaneously reading and rewriting realities, markets exist as a distributed conversation amongst speculators driven by profit motives and an appetite for divination and prophecy. Despite the ostensible ‘neutrality’ afforded by technology advances, recognisable human characteristics and archetypes appear again and again.