DAT Archives https://dat.rubenfro.com Fragments from a world now gone Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:11:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5 https://dat.rubenfro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-squarelogo-32x32.png DAT Archives https://dat.rubenfro.com 32 32 Spiritual Molecules https://dat.rubenfro.com/spiritual-molecules/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 01:44:35 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=418 An experimental psychedelic drop exclusively on Kalamint.

Spiritual Molecule 1
Through the barrier of space-time, the entities are waiting.
https://kalamint.io/collection/2254
Spiritual Molecule 2
Wake up, it’s time to sleep.
https://kalamint.io/collection/2268
Spiritual Molecule 3
Dimitri is Calling You.
https://kalamint.io/collection/2338
Spiritual Molecule 4
Conception
https://kalamint.io/collection/2427
]]> DAT Files https://dat.rubenfro.com/dat-files/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 01:32:50 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=406 Small fragments recovered by the DAT lost archives. A mini-series released with secret drops.

DAT FILES #1 – MEDIT1.DAT
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/186244
DAT FILES #2 – MSDOS.DAT
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/189592
DAT FILES #3 – APE.DAT
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/194864
DAT FILES #4 – SKULLGUY.DAT
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/210328
DAT FILES #5 – PENGUIN.DAT
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/211881
DAT FILES #6 – HAMMER.DAT
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/215665
]]> BrainFeeder https://dat.rubenfro.com/brainfeeder/ Fri, 28 May 2021 10:05:41 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=350 BrainFeeder is a series of short cyberpunk action sequences set in the DAT Universe, the Digital Afterlife Platform where humanity has moved as digitized souls, leaving their physical bodies behind.
After hundreds of years of automated existence, DAT suffers from corrupted data, turning a perfect digital world into a glitchy hell.
While the data corruption was initially thought to be caused by failing hardware, the Agency discovered that instead originated from a large attack by an unknown force within DAT.
A mysterious entity has been progressively hacking into the core of DAT subroutine.
In BrainFeeder 1, the Agency has detected a new hack destabilizing sector Tokyo 4-9.
The unknown force has stolen a DataFragment containing the cryptokeys to the sector.
Agent B49 will be spawned at the location, to retrieve the cryptokeys and investigate the scene.
We know the hacker has the ability to destabilize the DAT world and modify the temporal loop. Proceed with caution.BrainFeeder 1.5 takes place on planet Earth, outside of the Afterlife Simulation DAT (where in Episode 1 an unknown entity has been destabilizing data sectors).
Human life forms have been detected, on a planet devoid of biological life for thousands of years…

EPISODE 1.75

BrainFeeder Fragment 1.75 [Machinery]

The machine was silent, submerged in the deep methane lakes on what we used to call Earth.
A terminal in standby, untouched for thousands of years.
[Activate] 20.000.000 nanomachine cubes emerging, assembling, and creating fluid structures.
This, was one of the first experiments of AI nanorobots, dating back to the inception of DAT network.

BrainFeeder Fragment 1.75 [Machinery]
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/205350

EPISODE 1.5

EPISODE 1.5 THE CINEMATIC CUT

NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/123081

EPISODE 1.5 THE ANVIL CUT

NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/123063

LiveFeed A Fragment

NFT https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/123057

LiveFeed A [Anvil] Fragment

NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/123017

Human life forms have been detected, on a planet devoid of biological life for thousands of years…

]DAT Maintenance Bot Hacked[ >Spawning on///Earth/// [Year 74.952] Human Population: 0 ////ERROR: 49_LivingEntities_DETECTED///

[DAT Data Towers///soul storage 44to48//visible on the ground// Only automated bots operating] -ALERT-_Human figure detected/// //No humans detected on Earth since//20.049//

DAT Tower containing 490.039.239 digitized souls active./// Bots roaming the surface /// What appears to be a human figure is observing from a distance./// [No physical entities have walked the Earth for thousands of years] /// snd instrx

EPISODE 1

5/5 NFT: x.rubenfro.com/bf1

Looping Video
4K Video 1

FULL LENGTH CINEMATIC

This video will be updated with all the BrainFeeder Episodes

Full Length cinematic
]]> DAT Portrait 44 https://dat.rubenfro.com/dat-portrait-44/ Sun, 02 May 2021 06:36:01 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=256 ACCESS CARD TO <> DAT PORTRAIT 44 <]]> The creation, the myth, the endless cycle of life.
Broken. As we are.

[Transmission received]

Proceed with caution.

The time we’ve spent together.

> ACCESS CARD TO <
> DAT PORTRAIT 44 <

]]> Dissolving Realities https://dat.rubenfro.com/dissolving-realities/ Sun, 25 Apr 2021 05:58:52 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=240 The Award-Winning dissolving realities series, finally available as NFT.

Forgotten Memories of Hanoi
Forgotten Memories of Hanoi is the first piece of a new series, exploring the concept of recording memories with volumetric capture and bringing them back to life with real-time graphic shaders and generative algorithms.
In 2020, I spent weeks exploring the narrow alleys and busy shops of Hanoi. I documented the hectic daily life with 3D scans and audio recordings. With point-cloud data, I captured a bustling city, frozen in a slice of time.
This brief encounter in a street market is a memory now long gone. But in this set of 3D data, it will be preserved forever, encased in digital amber.

Foundation: https://foundation.app/@RubenFro/forgotten-memories-of-hanoi-74952
SPRWL_77
SPRWL_77 was a game area for cyberpunk aficionados, a desolate night map derived from memory scans of Tokyo recovered from old terminals. After the corruption of fragment 492B29 all its AfterLife Guests shifted position, replacing the closest data set and losing connection to the central hub. SPRWL77, a 200-meter-long abandoned street. A forgotten inaccessible set of subroutines and data. The now eternal home of 2048 digitized post-human souls.
1/1 NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/75790 (sold for 1300 tezos)
Dissolving Realities 2 – Hanoi
The 2nd episode of the award-winning series Dissolving Realities. Time-frozen snapshots of daily life, captured with 360 cameras and photogrammetry. Recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam, only a couple of weeks before the global pandemic would change the world.
1/1 NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/41195 (HicEtNunc Exclusive) – Sold for 925 tezos
The Watchmaker [DISSOLVING REALITIES VIETNAM]
A frozen snapshots of daily life, just a few weeks before the global pandemic, in the Duan Xong Market in Hanoi. A man talking with a client on the phone, a tiny shop fixing watches. A slice of time captured with 360 cameras and photogrammetry.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/62544

DuST [A Watchmaker Fragment]
Flowing energy created from 3D data captured in a shop, within the Duan Xong Market in Hanoi. Reality deconstructed in millions of particles. Shapes, patterns, and colors of daily life creating vortexes and never-ending waves.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/62520

MaTTER [A Watchmaker Fragment]
Flowing energy created from 3D data captured in a shop, within the Duan Xong Market in Hanoi. Reality deconstructed in millions of particles. Shapes, patterns, and colors of daily life creating vortexes and never-ending waves.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/62527

]]> Diorama Tokyo https://dat.rubenfro.com/diorama-tokyo/ Sun, 25 Apr 2021 05:56:41 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=234 The narrow alleys of Tokyo, captured with point clouds and re-imagined as tiny worlds suspended in the void.


Diorama Tsukiji – We Are Data
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/360212
Diorama Tokyo – Magic Wizards Bar Brawl Fight
NFT: https://www.objkt.bid/o/157826
Diorama Tokyo – Magic Wizard Bar Brawl Fight (Special First Person View)
NFT: https://www.objkt.bid/o/157831
Diorama Tokyo – Shibuya (Glitter Disco)
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/73962
Diorama Tokyo – Shinjuku (Meltdown)
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/50046
Diorama Tokyo – Shinbashi
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/41153
Diorama Tokyo – Kanda
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/41159

]]> DAT PORTRAIT 43 Æ https://dat.rubenfro.com/dat-portrait-43-ae/ Tue, 13 Apr 2021 08:42:14 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=190

x.rubenfro.com/d1

x.rubenfro.com/d2

x.rubenfro.com/d3

-=Limited Drop=-

Link to DAT A12 established.
The connection will only be active for two short windows.
Destruction will follow.

  1. Only available on two windows of 7 minutes each
  2. When the 2nd window closes, all the remaining  editions will be burned

WINDOW 1
April 13 23.00-23.07 Tokyo
April 13 15.00-15.07 London
April 13 07.00-07.07 Los Angeles

WINDOW 2
April 14 08.00-08.07 Tokyo
April 14 00.00-00.07 London
April 13 16.00-16.07 Los Angeles

]]> Dissolving Paintings https://dat.rubenfro.com/dissolving-paintings/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:56:07 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=162 A series reinterpreting artworks with point clouds and particle systems.

Right-click & Save As guy
A 90s inspired Dissolving Painting interpretation of the iconic Right-click and Save As guy by XCOPY.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/KT1X8esDhbteBM3iJ15pmpoqzipvgSSrD6Tn/1

Moonrise Over the Sea, Whaler’s Elegy
A reinterpretation of Moonrise Over the Sea by Caspar David Friedrich.
Visual and music by RubenFro.
Original poem Whaler’s Elegy composed by Laurence Fuller and interpreted by Laurence Fuller and Cynthia San Luis.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/KT1X8esDhbteBM3iJ15pmpoqzipvgSSrD6Tn/0
The Wanderer
On the threshold of the unknown, the cold wind, and the endless sky. I cherish those who wander in their search of new paths.
This is my interpretation of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, one of the masterpieces of Romanticism by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/170134
Wanderer [Ovoo]
On the threshold of the unknown, the cold wind, and the endless sky. I cherish those who wander in their search of new paths. 
When traveling, it is custom to stop and circle an ovoo three times, moving clockwise, in order to have a safer journey. 
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/170123
The Birth of [Glitchy] Venus
The masterpiece by Botticelli, deconstructed and re-imagined with millions of dynamic animated particles.
A celebration of the intangible nature of digital art.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/89735
The Starry Night
Through the darkness of the night I look up. From this small window, made of dreams and hope. An exploration of The Starry Night, Van Gogh.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/39677
An Intimate Embrace
A dance of particles, an intimate embrace.
My audiovisual interpretation of The Kiss, by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/27393
Special 4K Widescreen version: https://vimeo.com/534773649

The Great (Particle) Wave off Kanagawa
My interpretation of one of the most recognizable work of Japanese art in the world:
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. Running in real-time in Unity via compute shader.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/18536

Girl with a Pearl Earring
A voxel exploration into a Vermeer’s masterpiece. A limited-edition free piece for the #OBJKT4OBJKT initiative celebrating 10k OBJTs on HicEtNunc.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/14106

Step into A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Taking a step into the point cloud of Georges Seurat’s greatest masterpiece.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/14668

]]> MindRelaxers https://dat.rubenfro.com/mindrelaxers/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:39:03 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=138 A series of mind content was created as propaganda for the DAT platform, no different than propaganda posters during various World Worlds.
Some of the Mind_Relaxer loops were designed to persuade humanity to leave behind the physical body and join the endless digital afterlife. Others instead provided instructions for newly converted data souls.

MindRelaxer MD_9

MindRelaxer The Beach
That special place in the early days of the DAT metaverse, where we used to meet before the sunset and talk about life and art.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/557045

MindRelaxer MD_8

MindRelaxer_8 VOID
This is the place where we used to be. Dust. Matter. Memories. Flowing through DAT.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/187528
MindRelaxer_8 VOID {DEBUG]
This is our open dataset. Silicon. Glass. Nanostructures. Flowing through DAT.
NFT: https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/187533

MindRelaxer MD_7

MindRelaxer_7 Disco Volante
Shapes made of chrome and light, flying over the oceans, bending reality.
NFT: https://x.rubenfro.com/m7a
MindRelaxer_7 Disco Volante [Alpha Fragment]
NFT: https://x.rubenfro.com/m7b
MindRelaxer_7 Disco Volante [Beta Fragment]
NFT: https://x.rubenfro.com/m7c

MindRelaxer MD_6

MindRelaxer 6 – The Arrival
Breaking the endless cycle, we rise. We look to the horizon, to this new era, to a new beginning. This is our first step into a bright future.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/56384
MindRelaxer 6 – The Arrival [THE ENTITY POSTER]
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/56393
MindRelaxer 6 – The Arrival [THE ATMAN POSTER]
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/56389

MindRelaxer MD_5

MindRelaxer 5 – The City of Bones
Through these walls of ivory, pearl, and silence. The sound of broken neon lights. The night, ate this world.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/37584

MindRelaxer MD_4

MindRelaxer_4 – The Village by the Sea
Rising from an ocean of fading memories. The last glimpse of a setting sun. The inevitable sinking into the abyss.
20/20 limited editions available on https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/24626

MindRelaxer MD_3

DAT MindRelaxer_3
January 2020. A volumetric scan from the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam. A bunch of seconds frozen in time, preserved forever through point cloud data. Only a few weeks later, the world would change.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/20785

MindRelaxer MD_2

DAT – MindRelaxer_2
MindRelaxer_2 for the DAT Afterlife Social Platform. The mind loop was created to advertise how easy it was to leave your decaying body behind and join the digital afterlife.
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/4082

MindRelaxer MD_1

DAT – MindRelaxer_1
It was originally designed to assist souls in transitioning to their new digital existence.
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/3337

Small Fragments

DAT – MindRelaxer_2 Flyer

MindRelaxers to Promote Travel to Far Away Planets

MindRelaxers were a common way to promote far away travel destinations in the DAT Afterlife Social Platform
In this particular OBJKT, Planet ZX91 & MSX93

Far away planets were a common travel destination within the DAT Afterlife Social Platform. Digitized souls used to explore the impossible canyons of MSX93 and the bio luminescent swamps of ZX91. 

After the Collapse of DAT, a few hundreds souls got stuck on those aliens lands, unable to return to their main hub, and yet finding a temporary shelter from the corrupting data set.

Planet MSX93 – Famous for its incredibly deep canyons and energy-based lifeforms.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/17394
Planet ZX91 – The swamps of ZX91 were supposed to activate hallucinatory effects, not dissimilar to Digital DMT.
A few souls claimed, after spending years immersed in the warm water of ZX91, to be able to experience their true form, as binary data collected in storage capsules of the DAT platform orbiting Lagrange Point 1 & 2.
NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/17395
]]> DAT Portraits [Memento Numquam Mori] https://dat.rubenfro.com/datportraits/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:26:01 +0000 https://dat.rubenfro.com/?p=104 Introduction to DAT Afterlife Social Platform

> After centuries of progressively failing maintenance routines and unoptimized algorithms, the data fragments of DAT started collapsing.
> Nothing was extremely noticeable at first. A few glitches here and there, mainly erroneous visual stimuli. Things looked, smelled, or tasted a bit different. The sky had the wrong shade of blue. Nothing major.
> Very few Guests [among the billions of digitized souls living into the endless, perfect life of DAT] realized that something was different.
>And that was just the beginning.
>Centuries after centuries, digital souls started suffering data errors, affecting memories, personalities, and physical appearance. The world changed. Data sets lost references. Materials and physical attributes shifted.
> Food tasting of broken glass. Endless abysses replacing streets, rivers, and seas. Enormous blocks of marble and gold covering entire cities and all their inhabitants.
>The never-ending digital heaven became a glitchy and fragmented hell, tormenting his hundreds of billions of souls in their digital immortality.

>These are the last portraits of these ancient humans, the slowly decaying and corrupted digital souls.

DAT NEO(re)PROGRAMMER 1

DAT NEO(re)PROGRAMMER 1
A 10-minutes experimental soundscape for the DAT Digital Afterlife Platform.
Music composed using live-coding and generative algorithms.
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/33736

DAT PORTRAIT 43 Æ

A forgotten portrait of a digital soul. 3 time-limited editions, only available for 7 minutes during two windows on April 13 23:00JST & April 14 8:00JST 2021. After the windows closed, all the remaining pieces were burned.

Portrait 1
Portrait 2
Portrait 3
x.rubenfro.com/d3

DAT PORTRAIT INNER DEMON [SELF]

DAT PORTRAITS – Inner Demon #1 [Origin]
Acquire Fragment NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/12695
DAT PORTRAITS – Inner Demon #1 [Spectre]
Acquire Fragment NFT: https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/12697
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