# Supermental by Rosenlykke

## The work and its context

Supermental is project 285 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug supermental-by-rosenlykke and credited to Rosenlykke. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Inspired by Max Tegmark's book Life 3.0, we envisioned what it is going to look like when a general AI starts a media company for the first time. An AI able to create and stream unique content to every human watching.   Soon though, we realized that there was something else going on.  As the work progressed it became clear that Supermental is a way to question and express much of the friction that we see in NFTs and Web3. Especially around mental health.  While we are firm believers in this new world we do have questions. And we do see red flags.  We often complain that some Web2 companies are causing depression and online addiction. And they are. But while the data and the assets might be free in Web3, are we better off when it comes to our mental health?  In the land of NFTs our online identity now consumes. Not only time, but money and assets. The mimetic status games are no longer confined to likes and followers. Now we deal in tangible value. This expansion of the mimetic scoreboard does not make it easier to live a balanced life. The benefit of being online has just increased dramatically for a lot of people. But it comes at a cost.  How do we ensure that we don’t recreate our mistakes of the past? How do we make sure that online addiction does not become worse? How do we make sure that our mental health is not sacrificed once again.  If we really do own the platforms, the assets, and the memes, it should be in our best interest to create an online environment where proactive mental health is the default UX.   With Supermental we hope to draw attention to mental health issues in the Web3 and NFT space.  Supermental is made by a duo. My partner wants to stay anon.  Take care, Jarl Rosenlykke  ---------  Controls  - Click on the animation to change your mental state  - Press space to pause and take a deep breath [^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 string is exactly: The images/animations created by this project is CC0. Inspired by Tegmark Life 3.0.

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

Official copy imagines a general AI launching a media company. Token 0 is a line-drawn bear face in a speed-line burst, a cartoon card rather than a lab scene.

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 Supermental are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01]

Sentences 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 supermental-by-rosenlykke was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 30220 bytes with SHA-256 61c4fdb5846b79df62d3d23bf9a53448f941b73a946ffd7f364ab66fc90ed4e1. 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]

30220-byte p5. setup, draw, keyPressed, lettered helpers A-L. Token 0: Big bang, Dark moon, Fluid, Loss aversion.

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

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: Hash selects world, palette, formation and mental state. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Continuing draw possible. keyPressed not tested. No audio heard. 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]

## The mint

Indexed chronology for project 285 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-03-18T17:27:01+00:00. activated_at is 2022-03-25T17:23:04+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-04-05T16:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-04-05T17:19:23+00:00. Invocations stand at 400 of a maximum 400, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04]

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 7.00 days; activation to start_datetime is 10.94 days; start_datetime to completion is 1.32 hours; first mint to completion is 17.99 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 2022-03-18T17:27:01+00:00, activated 2022-03-25T17:23:04+00:00, start 2022-04-05T16:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-04-05T17:19:23+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]

## Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'The images/animations created by this project is CC0'. 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 'The images/animations created by this project is CC0'.

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

Supermental #0 is token 285000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-18T17:27:01+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Black field, white speed lines, blue outline bear face with oval eyes and an x mouth. World Big bang, Dark moon, Fluid, Loss aversion. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: World Big bang; Palette Dark moon; Formation Fluid; Mental state Loss aversion.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

Supermental #1 is token 285000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-02T18:49:14+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Second Supermental character card. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: World Astro storm; Palette Fusion; Formation Fluid; Mental state Balanced.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

Supermental #10 is token 285000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-05T16:00:34+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Tenth public mint of Supermental. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: World Parallel dimension; Palette Milky way; Formation Roaming; Mental state Loss aversion.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

Supermental #20 is token 285000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-05T16:00:34+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Twentieth public mint of Supermental. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: World Galaxy; Palette Dark moon; Formation Hold the line; Mental state Loss aversion.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The AB5D header candidate is token 285000350 (edition 350), 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. AB5D Supermental holding. [^S08][^S04][^S09]

Motion, interaction, and audio: Continuing draw possible. keyPressed not tested. No audio 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

Supermental is project 285 by Rosenlykke. 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.

[^S01]: Art Blocks. [Supermental by Rosenlykke collection page](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/supermental-by-rosenlykke). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S02]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [projects_metadata record for supermental-by-rosenlykke](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S03]: Rosenlykke. [Supermental on-chain artist program](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S04]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [tokens_metadata for sampled Supermental token IDs](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S05]: Art Blocks. [Canonical token pages for sampled Supermental outputs](https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/285000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S06]: Creative Commons. [Reported artwork licence label The images/animations created by this project is CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S07]: Rosenlykke. [Supermental official description](https://twitter.com/rosenlykke). 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 Supermental tokens](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/285000000.png). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S10]: Art Blocks. [Live generator renderer for Supermental](https://generator.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/285000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.