Introduction
Pompidou distinguishes the 1997 work from a 2021 version comprising 512 NFTs with different initial pixel motifs. Its #419 was donated in 2023, a collection event separate from creation.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Every Icon’s 512-work NFT version
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
Work and historical context
This entry for John F. Simon Jr. is dated 2021, under the original title Every Icon (NFT version). Original and new-version years are separate; catalogue technique fields do not fully establish contract and frontend implementation.
Section sources: Every Icon #419 — Centre Pompidou
Process and material
Pompidou distinguishes the 1997 work from a 2021 version comprising 512 NFTs with different initial pixel motifs. Its #419 was donated in 2023, a collection event separate from creation.
Section sources: Every Icon #419 — Centre Pompidou
Viewing the work and its documentation
Compare the 2021 NFT version of Every Icon with its 1997 web form: the combinatorial question persists while collecting and preservation contexts change. Pompidou’s object and acquisition record does not date the work’s origin to its 2023 donation.
Section sources: Every Icon #419 — Centre Pompidou
Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: A generative concept enters a new version and distribution structure, enabling work-specific comparisons across the NFT transition without inventing a sudden birth of the art form.
Section sources: Every Icon #419 — Centre Pompidou
Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
A generative concept enters a new version and distribution structure, enabling work-specific comparisons across the NFT transition without inventing a sudden birth of the art form.
Compare rules, versions, materials or participation; the nature of the connection follows the sources for each entry.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2021 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2021
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Original sources & further reading
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Every Icon (NFT version)
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/GnoFWAB
Current cited URL
Original and new-version years are separate; catalogue technique fields do not fully establish contract and frontend implementation.
Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #116 · Generative-art expansion: artists, works and execution
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Date as recorded: 2021
Every Icon #419 — Centre Pompidou ↗
Every Icon #419 — Centre Pompidou
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Cite this node
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Every Icon’s 512-work NFT version. Art-history node #116. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/321
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