Introduction
Gazers combines a deterministic seed with time, producing changing designs across lunar phases. Its Origin Moon connects to Kane’s biography, while layer behaviour and potential animation speed change over time.
View full image ↗Preview of Gazers from its Art Blocks collection page. The series release is dated 2021-12-06; the image was retrieved on 3 October 2026. A still does not reproduce dynamic or interactive execution.
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Seeds, lunar phases and sustained viewing
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
Work and historical context
Art Blocks dates Gazers to 2021-12-06, with an edition field of 1,000 works and attribution to Matt Kane. This dates the release, not the beginning of every sketch or development process.
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Seeds, lunar phases and sustained viewing
Gazers combines a deterministic seed with time, producing changing designs across lunar phases. Its Origin Moon connects to Kane’s biography, while layer behaviour and potential animation speed change over time.
Section sources: Gazers by Matt Kane
Viewing the work and its documentation
Time is part of reading Gazers. Compare the moon and framing in the preview, then use the token page’s live-rendering mode to examine date-related changes. A saved image records one state of its continuing temporal structure.
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Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: The collectible extends from an image to a temporal structure. Archiving therefore requires distinctions between the work, capture date and execution state.
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The collectible extends from an image to a temporal structure. Archiving therefore requires distinctions between the work, capture date and execution state.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2021-12-06 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2021-12-06
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Gazers
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Gazers by Matt Kane
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