Still Moving

The work and its context

Still Moving is project 433 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug still-moving-by-nathaniel-stern-and-sasha-stiles and credited to Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 240 of 240 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: The mind moves at the speed of dreams. Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! I like to think of my brain as a hand, palm of my soul, fragile nerve bundle. I think about my brain as I hold my heart in both hands , a private thing, a pulsing secret. It fills my palms and bones with heat. The world is full of heartbeat. I am trying to hold it all together...   --  Excerpt from STILL MOVING, by Technelegy NOTE: To fully experience STILL MOVING, please open in LIVE VIEW and enable your webcam for motion tracking. The first project of its kind, STILL MOVING is an interactive poem about humanity’s visceral engagement with the virtual , written and published via the blockchain as a token word performance, and embodied by each collector as a uniquely intimate, personalized interpretation. In this epic on-chain ode to the relationship of bodies and machines, literal and figurative wordplay activates the liminal space between text and reader, extending the two-dimensional screen/page into a somatic, material realm where language moves us in every sense of that phrase , up, down, sideways, forwards, backwards, and in otherwise inexpressible directions , urging us to reclaim our dynamism and intuitive physicality in an age of technological acceleration, bodily inertia, and rote gestures. A collaboration between Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles , rooted in Stiles’ AI-powered verse and Stern’s career in digital, interactive, and networked art , STILL MOVING is an ars poetica about what it means to be a human body facing a machine: a showdown, a form of worship, a distraction, a mirror gaze, an other, an alter, an alter. After we bend to our technologies, do we spring back into shape, or assume new forms? Where does input end, and output begin? As we continue to think, work, and play faster than ever while rooted in place, it is still possible to be moved , really moved? STILL MOVING also embodies the future of web3 literature, in which the book , read-only , evolves into a read-write-interact experience, and authors begin to adopt such tools as webcams and NFTs in their writerly arsenal. In each unique edition of STILL MOVING, camera-based motion tracking (data confined to your local machine only) facilitates a play-full and meaning-full interface between the reader’s physical self and language on screen. Human forms and gestures shape machine expression, and vice versa, cybernetic serendipity inspires poetic association. Make a move, and be moved… Stand still, and instill meaning… Palettes pair paper, charcoal, and pencil colorings , emblematic of the stationery/stationary , with neon and electric highlights that nod to computational restlessness. Preview images feature lines from the core poem, potent standalone phrases, or rare, gestural graphics and images, caught somewhere between language and illustration, expression and wordless apprehension. FUNCTIONS Click inside the interaction area if any of the function keys below are not working. Space Bar to toggle Play/Pause the interaction and animation 'd' Downloads the current image at the screen/browser resolution Up/Down arrows increase/decrease camera sensitivity by 5 (for use in high and low light situations; 0-150, default is 90; higher numbers = more text) Top two keyboard rows (numbers 1 thru 0 and letters q thru p) also birth semi-mapped text 'c' toggles Camera use (if present and on) between keyboard only or both 'v' Views/hides the Verse (your poetry / your iteration’s text) 'f' toggles Full screen (Live View only) 's' downloads / Saves the entire AI poem to the hard drive ¹²

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. ¹²

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.5. Website https://mother.computer/still-moving/.

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. ³⁴

Conception and development

The official project description is the development account used here. Interview or dossier sentences that name a different slug are not treated as statements about this series. The mind moves at the speed of dreams. Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! I like to think of my brain as a hand, palm of my soul, fragile nerve bundle. I think about my brain as I hold my heart in both hands , a private thing, a pulsing secret. It fills my palms and bones with heat. The world is full of heartbeat. I am trying to hold it all together...   --  Excerpt from STILL MOVING, b

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 Still Moving are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug still-moving-by-nathaniel-stern-and-sasha-stiles was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 24241 bytes with SHA-256 e464bd33e76aaec858afbba9838442d28185bd63fa02776e505bce1416f51137. Runtime on the project record is p5@1.0.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 24241 bytes, SHA-256 e464bd33e76aaec858afbba9838442d28185bd63fa02776e505bce1416f51137, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, createCanvas, keyPressed, Tone, tokenData, hash. Named functions include GR, P, SZ, TI, WR, draw, keyPressed, overlay, pp, previewImage. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 255,238,255). File size 489093 bytes. Indexed features: Font serif; Curve True; Speed 4; Title True; Matrix False; Trails False; Display words; Outline False

Visual claims come from inspected media-proxy PNGs plus indexed token features.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: tokenData.hash is read in source. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. 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. ⁶⁷

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. ⁶⁸

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 433 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-03-09T02:45:11+00:00. activated_at is 2023-04-20T17:16:59+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-04-26T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2024-02-05T14:25:35+00:00. Invocations stand at 240 of a maximum 240, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 42.61 days; activation to start_datetime is 5.99 days; start_datetime to completion is 284.89 days; first mint to completion is 333.49 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. ²³

Indexed clocks: first 2023-03-09T02:45:11+00:00, activated 2023-04-20T17:16:59+00:00, start 2023-04-26T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2024-02-05T14:25:35+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. ¹²

Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'CC BY-NC-SA 4.0'. That string includes an explicit 4.0 version and is treated as Creative Commons version 4.0. 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. ²⁸

Artwork label copied exactly as 'CC BY-NC-SA 4.0'.

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. ⁶⁸

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

Still Moving #0 is token 433000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-09T02:45:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 255,238,255). File size 489093 bytes. Indexed features: Font serif; Curve True; Speed 4; Title True; Matrix False; Trails False; Display words; Outline False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Font serif; Curve True; Speed 4; Title True; Matrix False; Trails False; Display words; Outline False. ³⁹⁴

Still Moving #1 is token 433000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-09T02:47:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 211,245,224). File size 541016 bytes. Indexed features: Font serif; Curve False; Speed 13; Title False; Matrix False; Trails False; Display words; Outline False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Font serif; Curve False; Speed 13; Title False; Matrix False; Trails False; Display words; Outline False. ³⁹⁴

Still Moving #10 is token 433000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-04-26T17:53:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 244,243,243). File size 845817 bytes. Indexed features: Font sans-serif; Curve False; Speed 2; Title False; Matrix False; Trails True; Display words; Outline False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Font sans-serif; Curve False; Speed 2; Title False; Matrix False; Trails True; Display words; Outline False. ³⁹⁴

Still Moving #20 is token 433000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-04-26T17:59:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 0,0,18). File size 510939 bytes. Indexed features: Font serif; Curve False; Speed 2; Title False; Matrix False; Trails True; Display words; Outline False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Font serif; Curve False; Speed 2; Title False; Matrix False; Trails True; Display words; Outline False. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 433000073 (edition 73), 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. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 24,0,0). File size 452762 bytes. Indexed features: Font serif; Curve False; Speed 13; Title False; Matrix False; Trails False; Display words; Outline False ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. 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. ⁴⁷⁶

Significance and limitations

Still Moving is project 433 by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. 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? ²¹⁰⁷

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation.