Introduction
A seed determines rectangle number, orientation, position and colour. Most outputs use monochromatic palettes, with light, dark and complementary variants. The release shares Chromie Squiggle’s date.
View full image ↗Preview of Construction Token from its Art Blocks collection page. The series release is dated 2020-11-27; the image was retrieved on 3 October 2026. A still does not reproduce dynamic or interactive execution.
Jeff Davis / Art Blocks · Artwork and image rights remain with their holders; research reference does not assert an open licence.
Source · Construction Token ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Another formal language on Art Blocks’ launch day
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
Work and historical context
Art Blocks dates Construction Token to 2020-11-27, with an edition field of 500 works and attribution to Jeff Davis. This dates the release, not the beginning of every sketch or development process.
Section sources: Construction Token by Jeff Davis
Another formal language on Art Blocks’ launch day
A seed determines rectangle number, orientation, position and colour. Most outputs use monochromatic palettes, with light, dark and complementary variants. The release shares Chromie Squiggle’s date.
Section sources: Construction Token by Jeff Davis
Viewing the work and its documentation
Compare the scale, spacing and colour distribution of Construction Token’s rectangles. Reading it alongside Genesis offers a view of early Art Blocks as an organisation of many outputs from a program, beyond market rarity.
Section sources: Construction Token by Jeff Davis · View work: Construction Token #131
Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: A separate Davis entry makes the diversity of launch-day practice visible instead of allowing a single emblematic work to stand for the group.
Section sources: Construction Token by Jeff Davis
Sources for this account
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Read Art Blocks release date, edition field and work statement; scripts, contracts and long-term executability not independently audited. Chinese titles are archive renderings. The account and translation are AI-assisted, pending independent human review. Section references identify evidence without claiming independent verification of every historical statement.
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A separate Davis entry makes the diversity of launch-day practice visible instead of allowing a single emblematic work to stand for the group.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2020-11-27 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2020-11-27
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Original sources & further reading
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Construction Token
https://www.artblocks.io/collection/construction-token-by-jeff-davis
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #110 · Generative-art expansion: artists, works and execution
Research materials & supplement references · 1
Expanded register of generative artists and crypto ecosystems · Read work statement and historical date fields; code not independently executed. · 015
Date as recorded: 2020-11-27
Construction Token by Jeff Davis ↗
Construction Token by Jeff Davis
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Construction Token: another formal language on Art Blocks’ launch day. Art-history node #110. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/269
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