Live web installation
A dedicated display presents the canonical website and current permanent state. Network access allows verified state changes to appear through the maintained publication process.
Curatorial formats / technical specification
Built for a screen, a wall, or a public system.
nothing.monolith can be exhibited as a live networked artwork, a verified state installation or a time-based presentation of its accumulated record.
Every format must preserve the square image, exact canonical state, black field, legible state context and one-directional rule.
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Formats
Three curatorial modes
Live, fixed, or durational.
Verified state display
A specific canonical state is shown as an image installation with its state number, date, pixel count, artwork hash and interpretive label.
State-sequence projection
Selected public states and transitions are presented over time to reveal the cumulative disappearance without fabricating unpublished states.
Archive and ledger study
The visual work is accompanied by method, journal, public timeline and provenance material for educational or research contexts.
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Display specification
Canonical presentation
The absence must remain exact.
- Native canvas
- 1,000 × 1,000 pixels / 1:1
- Colour field
- Monochrome artwork on black
- Recommended display
- 4K or higher, colour-managed, minimum 1 m visible width
- Image treatment
- No crop, stretch, retouching, filters or recreated erasures
- Live presentation
- Modern browser, stable network and fullscreen or kiosk mode
- Sound
- Silent unless a specific approved time-based work includes original audio
- Attribution
- nothing.monolith / state number / date / nothingmonolith.com
- Accessibility
- Provide the state description, rule and current erasure count in text
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Curatorial support
Available on request
A complete context, not an isolated file.
Interpretive text
Short and extended wall labels, project statement, method, timeline, name rationale and accessibility description.
Verified media
Canonical state master, SHA-256 identifier, approved public transitions and publication history.
Installation planning
Display orientation, safe-area guidance, network requirements and options for fixed or live presentation.
Curatorial conversation
Remote discussion of attention, irreversible participation, internet art, digital materiality and collective authorship.
Exhibition enquiriesmonolith.nothing@gmail.com
Include venue, dates, format, display dimensions and whether live network access is available.
Technical evidence