Craig Hughes & Eric Hughes: links
Selected sources documenting the Art Blocks collection, secondary-market records, and the agricultural systems behind the work.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks records the project as a 222-edition Factory collection released in 2022.
Art BlocksInterviews
No substantive artist interview was located in the verified source set; the nearest usable historical interview material concerns the irrigation technology rather than the artists.
Living History FarmPress and criticism
Wired covers the 1952 center-pivot patent and the later visual culture of circular agricultural fields.
WiredMuseums and institutions
History Nebraska summarises Frank Zybach's invention and its importance to agricultural history.
History NebraskaThe National Inventors Hall of Fame profiles Frank Zybach and the development of self-propelled irrigation.
National Inventors Hall of FameUSGS documents aquifer depletion risks connected to long-term irrigated agricultural productivity.
USGSGalleries and exhibitions
Verse preserves marketplace and provenance records for individual Center Pivot tokens.
VerseEssays, talks and podcasts
NASA Earth Observatory explains the aerial appearance and mechanics of Kansas crop circles.
NASA Earth ObservatoryNASA Earth Observatory documents desert circular fields produced by center-pivot irrigation.
NASA Earth ObservatoryUSDA Agricultural Research Service describes precision control in modified center-pivot irrigation systems.
USDA ARSAuctions and catalogues
OpenSea indexes the collection, its 222 items, and marketplace trait structure.
OpenSeaNFT Valuations provides collection analytics for the 222-item Art Blocks Factory project.
NFT ValuationsProfiles and archives
Raster lists Craig Hughes & Eric Hughes and records Center Pivot as 222 works.
RasterGoogle Patents archives Frank L. Zybach's 1952 self-propelled sprinkling irrigating apparatus patent.
Google PatentsVideo
Nebraska Public Media presents a video history of center-pivot irrigation and Frank Zybach's invention.
Nebraska Public MediaUse this research
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