"PlayTrain"

Provisional — not yet checked by the artist. Anything that could not be verified (year, contract address, link) is left blank.

Year
2023
Artists
Toshi
Medium
Ethereum mainnet, ENS (NameWrapper)
Contract
0x77b01feb029aba23fd3fcfd448b942fdbd437464 — View on Etherscan

A work that links ENS subnames together to make a personal name into a single train. Using the way ENS lets a name carry further names beneath it, each participant’s name is coupled on like a carriage. The train is headed by the artist’s own tsh.eth, and the one name grows longer with every carriage behind it. Where one name ends and someone else’s begins is decided by nothing but how the couplings are made. A very small use of the standard is enough to unsettle the assumption that a name points to a person.

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