ORLUNEA LAB

Lab

Unresolved questions can also become part of a work.

Orlunea Lab brings together research, prototypes, and unfinished questions around digital art.

IN PROGRESS

Cross-Chain Provenance

When a work moves from one chain to another, what should remain intact?

We examine whether a work’s identity, provenance, and ownership history can remain legible after it moves across networks.

Relational study · Continuity through movement

Work
Network A
Provenance
Network B

First Connected Networks

ANUBIS
Ethereum
Arbitrum One
Polygon

Next: Solana · Tron · zkSync · Sui · Linea

Cross-chain support provided by LayerZero

IN PROGRESS

Living Archive

How does a digital work endure?

Living Archive considers the long-term preservation of digital works, their versions, provenance, exhibition histories, and continuity of identity as they enter other media.

Material Translation

Physical translation · Print studies

Digital works need not remain on a screen. Living Archive considers how a work can enter a physical medium while retaining its identity, provenance, and ownership relationship with the original digital work.

Physical prints are planned for the 2,500 digital works in Form & Flux I. The print program will be based on verification of ownership of the corresponding NFT.

One NFTOne physical print

Each NFT may correspond to only one physical print. Once that print has been made, the same NFT cannot produce a second corresponding print.

Material translation · Proposed sequence

Digital work
NFT ownership verification
One-time physical edition
Unique print number
Ownership verification letter

Ownership verification: A partnership is already in place with a print supplier that accepts cryptocurrency payments. Before a future purchase, the supplier will verify that the buyer’s wallet holds the corresponding NFT. Only a wallet holding that NFT will be eligible to purchase its physical print.
Print number and verification letter: Each physical print will have its own Unique Print Number. The buyer will also receive an Ownership Verification Letter corresponding to that specific ownership check.
Format studies: Physical specifications are still being determined, with one or at most two formats envisaged. Physical formats are being deliberately limited so that individual prints remain consistent across the edition. Timing remains to be determined.

STUDY

Atlas of Forms

What happens when 2,500 works are seen together?

Atlas of Forms studies the visual relationships among the 2,500 works in Form & Flux I. Color, form, structure, density, and similarity become more than properties of individual works: they offer another way through the archive.

Relational sketch · Points and lines as a way of thinking between works

Color
Form
Structure
Density
Similarity

STUDY

AI VIEWING

Do AI and people see a work in the same way?

Human viewing carries memory, experience, and association; AI reads an image through color, edges, texture, and distribution. Placing these two ways of seeing side by side makes their differences visible.

Reading study · Two ways of looking, side by side

HUMAN VIEWING

Memory & Association
Rhythm & Sensation
Context & Experience

AI VIEWING

Color & Distribution
Edges & Structure
Texture & Density

STUDY

Ways of Arranging

How many exhibitions can exist inside the same archive?

Ways of Arranging considers how the same works can form different viewing sequences under different rules. Color, similarity, contrast, year, rhythm, or chance can each reorganize the relationships between works.

Arrangement study · Six possible viewing sequences

By color
By similarity
By contrast
By year
By chance
By rhythm