Internet Footprints

The visual art practice, reinforced by web surfing, began in July 2017, when a photo was posted on Instagram with the following caption: Don't watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.

The first photo posted on Instagram in 2017. Its original file, as well as many other photos shared on Instagram between July and November, have been lost and were not preserved on the Ethereum blockchain.

The first and last photographs, preserved in the blockchain-based collection, appeared online respectively in November 2017 and September 2022.

The oldest photo in the blockchain-minted series was posted on Instagram in Nov 2017. Its original version was lost, but a copy was recovered, named and minted on a blockchain in the first quarter of 2023. Same story for all tokenized photos of the first two years.

The Internet domain awalkaday.art was officially registered in May 2021.

One year later, a meaningful milestone was reached when selected photographs graced the virtual walls of the MONOLITH Gallery inside Sellen Hall in July 2022.

The last photo in this series, posted on Instagram in Sept 2022, which was later preserved on a blockchain.

As of September 2023, the awalkaday.art smart contract and its contract deployer are labeled by a major search engine and browser for blockchain data, Etherscan.

A congratulatory message citing the virtual exhibition hall of the photo series was posted by the .ART web domains registry on two social media networks in February 2024.

The final photo shared on Instagram in Oct 2022. Its original file, along with four others posted in the same month, were lost. They were not minted on Ethereum.

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