Various art created by Steven Hatzakis
Blockchain Art
Steven Hatzakis is an early pioneer in the blockchain art market with his earliest Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) dating back to 2018, including one piece he minted on the Cryptographics platform titled “Crypto Colors” which was recently acquired by a prominent NFT artist.
Crypto Colors by Steven Hatzakis, is estimated to be worth nearly $10,000, as it is the #40 NFT minted on Cryptograpghics and considered pre-AG (Autoglyphs < #247 on the Cryptographics platform):
NFTs by Steven Hatzakis
Below is a sample of select digital pieces of art created by Steven Hatzakis that have been published to the Ethereum blockchain and listed on OpenSea and Mintable for sale:
This “wave” series was inspired by creating an XOR Cayley Lookup table using hex values which were computed by hand, and then color-coded and then scaled into a large number of values before editing the final designs in GIMP, using animation and distortion filters.
The SHA256 Hash (a 256-bit value represented by 64 hexadecimal characters) of this file is: b6367f54187defb3f9a7a953e7621991f04e75c07891f97f05214258c4d0b517
This image was used as the basis for the artwork in this Waves series. It was created by Steven Hatzakis, by hand, using Excel, color-coding numbers, based on a Cayley XOR lookup table created by him while developing an s-box for cryptographic experiments. The has of this file has been included in the following on-chain ethereum transaction: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8218b9fb4abc3fd04ad45e0fdd352ac32ad5634c5c3b406a46dfdc9c2de2118f And this file has also been included in the Bitcoin blockchain using Open Time Stamps (OTS).
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The following series, Abstract Creature, was created through the use of large palindromic integers to arrive at perfectly symmetrical abstract designs:
Physical Artwork
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New York City Horse Under Milky Way [SOLD to a private collector for $1000]
Acrylic on Canvas: 47 in x 47 in x 1.5 in (119.38 x 119.38 cm x 3.81 cm)
This is an upcycled collaborative piece between Steven Hatzakis and an unknown artist. The private collector that bought this piece has subsequently donated it to Covenant House in New York where it is currently on display in the Youth Development Area.
Planet Earth [SOLD to a private collector for $700]
Planet Earth by Steven Hatzakis was Sold to a private collector while on exhibit at Central Art Gallery in New York City on 73rd and Columbus in Manhattan on July 27th 2017.
Acrylic on canvas: 100 x 70 cm (39 in x 28 in)