# pseudomods by erin bee

## The work and its context

pseudomods is project 272 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug pseudomods-by-erin-bee and credited to erin bee. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 808 of 808 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: pseudomods is a visual study on eurorack modular synthesizers, and other histories of control surfaces. abstract panels open to interpretation, possessed by an outside knob-fiddler. [^S01][^S02]

Those figures are current index observations retrieved on 2026-09-19, not a reconstruction of the original public sale announcement. Atlas position is a catalogue ordinal and is not the on-chain project ID. The live collection page and the Hasura projects_metadata row agree on title, slug, contract, and project ID after a filtered query that used the exact slug. [^S01][^S02]

Licence field is exactly NFT License, unversioned. Visual study of eurorack panels.

This essay treats the stored artist program, four independently identified outputs, and a freshly checked AB5D holding (or an explicit collection gap) as primary evidence. Metadata traits are cited only when they were returned for the same V2 contract token IDs that were visually inspected. They do not replace looking at the pictures. [^S04][^S09]

## Conception and development

Erin Bee writes that pseudomods is a visual study of eurorack modular synthesizers and other control surfaces, abstract panels possessed by an outside knob-fiddler. That sentence is the account. Token 0 matches it: a mint panel of knobs and jacks on a checkerboard.

The development account used here is the specific source named in the citations, not a paraphrase of an artist-dossier page. Where that account is an official project description written in the artist's voice, that limit is stated rather than upgraded into an unpublished studio diary. Where an interview exists, the sentences that actually name pseudomods are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01]

Interview passages that name another project are not treated as statements about this slug. [^S02][^S07]

## How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug pseudomods-by-erin-bee was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 18774 bytes with SHA-256 a2170650f608c653bbaf9c6aaf06777a7bad3c9ab7b2d75b8091a526f62516c5. Runtime on the project record is p5@1.0.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. [^S03]

18774-byte p5. calculateFeatures reads hash pairs and named palettes (spell, papercut, nimbud, overgrown computer). setup/draw/windowResized. Token 0: module size 3, palette spell.

Visual claims come from inspected PNGs of the listed token IDs.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: 64 two-character hash slices plus named palette table. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Panel still in the PNG. Live knob motion not observed. No audio heard despite the synth metaphor. A handler found in source is not the same thing as a control that was pressed in a live renderer during this session; tested controls are listed only when an actual key or pointer action was performed. [^S03][^S10]

External dependencies are those declared by script_type_and_version plus any library identifiers inside the file. Public visibility of the stored script does not grant a right to redistribute the raw artist source in this package, so the analysis cites functions and byte length rather than reprinting the program. [^S03][^S06] Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug.

## The mint

Indexed chronology for project 272 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-02-18T22:00:38+00:00. activated_at is 2022-02-24T03:24:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-03-01T20:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-03-01T20:02:56+00:00. Invocations stand at 808 of a maximum 808, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04]

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 5.22 days; activation to start_datetime is 5.69 days; start_datetime to completion is 2.9 minutes; first mint to completion is 10.92 days. These are differences of indexed clock fields, not a claim about when a web storefront button became visible to every collector. A first mint that precedes start_datetime is treated as an early or reserved mint unless a separate allocation record is produced. [^S02][^S04]

Indexed clocks: first 2022-02-18T22:00:38+00:00, activated 2022-02-24T03:24:11+00:00, start 2022-03-01T20:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-03-01T20:02:56+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.

Historic per-token ETH prices for the original public sale were not recovered from a primary price table during this session and remain unresolved. Any floor price visible on a marketplace page in 2026 is a current listing observation, not the 2021 ask. [^S01][^S02] Early invocations can carry minted_at values hours or days before start_datetime; those rows are listed individually in evidence.json rather than averaged into a single public-open clock.

## Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'NFT License'. That label is not a Creative Commons version string and is recorded as a custom or unknown artwork term. Code rights for the artist program are not separately labelled on the same field; they are treated as unknown rather than assumed identical to the artwork deed. [^S02][^S06]

Artwork label copied exactly as 'NFT License'.

Third-party runtime p5@1.0.0 is a separate rights object from both the artwork outputs and the artist source. p5.js, three.js, and ordinary browser JavaScript each keep their own licence texts. This package does not redistribute those libraries. [^S03][^S06]

Original essay prose in this package is dedicated CC0-1.0 by the research operator. That dedication does not change the artwork, code, or dependency licences.

## Close reading of examples

pseudomods #0 is token 272000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-02-18T22:00:38+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Pale checkerboard. A mint panel with four corner bolts, lavender knobs, two black screens and orange jacks. Palette spell, module size 3. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: module size 3; color palette spell.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

pseudomods #1 is token 272000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-01T19:59:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Smaller papercut panel on the same checkerboard. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: module size 2; color palette papercut.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

pseudomods #10 is token 272000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-01T19:59:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Overgrown-computer palette, module size 3. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: module size 3; color palette overgrown computer.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

pseudomods #20 is token 272000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-01T20:00:07+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Papercut palette, module size 2. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: module size 2; color palette papercut.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The AB5D header candidate is token 272000127 (edition 127), currently indexed to 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, which is one of the three linked addresses returned for username ab5d on 2026-09-19. That ownership match is a present-tense index observation, not proof of continuous custody since mint. Nimbud palette header held by AB5D. [^S08][^S04][^S09]

Motion, interaction, and audio: Panel still in the PNG. Live knob motion not observed. No audio heard despite the synth metaphor. No soundtrack was heard. The static PNGs document halt or preview states. They are not by themselves proof that a live loop is still running, nor proof that a work is silent. No soundtrack was heard from these pages during this session. [^S09][^S10][^S03]

## Significance and limitations

pseudomods is project 272 by erin bee. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.

Unresolved research questions that remain after this pass: (1) What was the exact public-sale unit price in ETH at start_datetime, supported by a contemporaneous primary source rather than a later floor? (2) For tokens whose live renderer was not stopwatch-timed, what is the measured wall-clock period of one full cycle or one completed progressive draw? (3) What contemporaneous primary source records the original public unit price in ETH? (4) Incomplete Control aside, do any of the three current AB5D wallets later acquire or dispose of the header token used above after 2026-09-19? [^S02][^S08][^S10]

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation. Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug.

[^S01]: Art Blocks. [pseudomods by erin bee collection page](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/pseudomods-by-erin-bee). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S02]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [projects_metadata record for pseudomods-by-erin-bee](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S03]: erin bee. [pseudomods on-chain artist program](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S04]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [tokens_metadata for sampled pseudomods token IDs](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S05]: Art Blocks. [Canonical token pages for sampled pseudomods outputs](https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/272000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S06]: Art Blocks project record. [Reported artwork licence label NFT License](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/pseudomods-by-erin-bee). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S07]: erin bee. [pseudomods official description](http://erin.art). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S08]: Art Blocks. [AB5D linked wallet set and profile index](https://www.artblocks.io/profile/ab5d). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S09]: Art Blocks media proxy. [Static PNG renders of sampled pseudomods tokens](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/272000000.png). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S10]: Art Blocks. [Live generator renderer for pseudomods](https://generator.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/272000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.