The auction for COMMUNICATOR, a single 1/1 video work by James Bloom, is now live on Manifold.
James Bloom, COMMUNICATOR (Detail), 2025
Through COMMUNICATOR, Bloom transforms the visual grammar of advertising into a digital field of recursion and collapse, where the structure of communication dissolves into chaos.
Borrowing the formal layout of commercial media, COMMUNICATOR replaces image, slogan, and brand with pulsating 3D fractals — iterative geometries that unfold infinitely within the computer. What appears as an emblem of clarity becomes a vortex of motion, a simulation of infinity staged as spectacle. The work builds an unstable equilibrium between familiarity and vertigo, using technological precision to generate perceptual uncertainty.
At its core lies a fascination with chaos theory: a meditation on the infinite feedback loops produced by computation. Bloom’s fractals do not represent nature; they perform it. They exist as mathematical attractors that invite the viewer to travel inward, inside the logic of the machine, where motion never concludes and meaning continually restarts.
Through this dynamic, COMMUNICATOR extends Bloom’s exploration of technology as a field of autonomy and perceptual disturbance. The work frames the computer not as an instrument of order but as a generator of recursive freedom, an environment where control and disorientation coexist as productive states.
Curated by Fakewhale
Single 1/1 video work
English auction starting at 0.4 ETH
Hosted on the artist’s custom Manifold contract
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