# The Field by Beervangeer

## The work and its context

The Field is project 399 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug the-field-by-beervangeer and credited to Beervangeer. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 369 of 369 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: The field is a work inspired by the current trend in image synthesis made possible by machine learning technology. The latent spaces (the algorithmic structures that make AI image synthesis possible) can be seen as a part of our human collective unconsciousness; a hyper dimensional field of unlimited outcomes, inspired by our human symbols and language.  Exploring this new type of space, it sparked the idea of exploring the algorithmic essence of my own artworks. What would the structure behind my creative processes look like? What if I could visualize the algorithmic structures of my own mind that produced my artworks in the past?  These questions led me to The Field, a multidimensional machine hiding in my subconscious.  # THE GENERATOR The first step to reach The Field, was to capture the algorithmic structure behind all my artworks. By compressing several hundred artworks from HyperHash, EnergySculpture, UltraWave & HashCrash into a 64X64 matrix, a noise image has been created. This was done by adding up all these works together.  This noise image I call The Generator was the starting point to explore possibilities for the creation of a new work. This 64x64 matrix filled with noise data was embedded in the source of the piece and functions as the core of The Field algorithm.  # THE FIELD The Generator is being transformed into a multidimensional field of colors and motion, called The Field. The motions of the field relate to natural processes of creation and destruction. The field is like a fluid, solid and gas-like structure at the same time. It goes from a noisy formless state to a solid material state and back.  The field is created in a few steps. First a 2d noise pattern is being created from The Generator. This 2d pattern is made by picking random points from the 64x64 matrix. This is the fundamental background of the Field.  The second step is to use this pattern to set the field in motion. By using the color data per pixel, movement is being initiated. The colors are in that sense multifunctional, on one hand it visualizes random colors extracted from The Generator on the other hand the colors are used to set the field in motion and showing the interrelationship between the colors in an extra dimension: time. This creates the 3D effects, but also creates the effect of lighting bouncing in the field.   # REGRESSION, DESTRUCTION & CREATION The creation of the field felt for me like a form of regression. Reviewing the concepts of my previous work, thinking about what overlapped in terms of topics conceptually and design wise drew me back in time.  The main topic of this work represents is the cyclical nature of creation and destruction. By revisiting my old works and literally destroying them, this new work was created. In this way the work reflects on the causal relation between creation and destruction (what's created will someday be destroyed, something has to be created to be destroyed). A  universal essence of our causal reality behind all that is, a balance between forces, from light to dark, from warm to cold, from dry to wet, from finite to infinite.  This theme of creation and destruction is visible quite literally in The Field. Every mint of The field has a unique position in the field with color filtering added on top. The locations in the field are composed of  either creational vortices (expanding spirals) and destructional vortices(contracting spirals), a combination of the two in a balanced state (order) or a combination of the two in an unbalanced state (chaos).   The positions and coloring are a combination of hand-picked settings by me and totally random settings generated by the hash input from the token.   # Extra - By pressing the buttons a,s,w,d you can move through the field. - By pressing L you can activate LavaMode. - By scrolling you can zoom in and out.  **** BEST VIEWED IN FULLSCREEN LIVE MODE ON DECENT GPU. **** [^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]

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 0.75. Website https://beervangeer.nl/thefield.

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

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 field is a work inspired by the current trend in image synthesis made possible by machine learning technology. The latent spaces (the algorithmic structures that make AI image synthesis possible) can be seen as a part of our human collective unconsciousness; a hyper dimensional field of unlimited outcomes, inspired by our human symbols and language.  Exploring this new type of space, it sparke

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 The Field are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01]

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. [^S02][^S07]

## How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug the-field-by-beervangeer was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 33090 bytes with SHA-256 49fecf3a60d98dcc85489ea6430821bfc0e7a34d1bf11384a1ff14371e86213e. 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]

The stored generator is 33090 bytes, SHA-256 49fecf3a60d98dcc85489ea6430821bfc0e7a34d1bf11384a1ff14371e86213e, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, WEBGL, createCanvas, keyPressed, tokenData, hash. Named functions include decomp, draw, getShader, hslToRgb, hue2rgb, keyPressed, mouseWheel, preload, render, rgbToHsl. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 171,137,129). File size 6961613 bytes. Indexed features: ZoomLevel Neutral; ColorStyle Hue Changer

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: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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 399 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-11-28T20:21:59+00:00. activated_at is 2022-12-20T23:39:59+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-01-04T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-01-04T18:24:35+00:00. Invocations stand at 369 of a maximum 369, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04]

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 22.14 days; activation to start_datetime is 14.76 days; start_datetime to completion is 24.6 minutes; first mint to completion is 36.92 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 2022-11-28T20:21:59+00:00, activated 2022-12-20T23:39:59+00:00, start 2023-01-04T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-01-04T18:24:35+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. [^S01][^S02]

## Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'NFT License 2.0'. 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 2.0'.

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. [^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

The Field #0 is token 399000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-28T20:21:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 171,137,129). File size 6961613 bytes. Indexed features: ZoomLevel Neutral; ColorStyle Hue Changer Indexed features returned for this V2 token: ZoomLevel Neutral; ColorStyle Hue Changer.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The Field #1 is token 399000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-04T18:09:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 161,128,183). File size 6835145 bytes. Indexed features: ZoomLevel Zoomed; ColorStyle Random Indexed features returned for this V2 token: ZoomLevel Zoomed; ColorStyle Random.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The Field #10 is token 399000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-04T18:22:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 138,165,207). File size 6705603 bytes. Indexed features: ZoomLevel Zoomed; ColorStyle Random Indexed features returned for this V2 token: ZoomLevel Zoomed; ColorStyle Random.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The Field #20 is token 399000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-04T18:22:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 226,135,174). File size 6152637 bytes. Indexed features: ZoomLevel Neutral; ColorStyle Candy Indexed features returned for this V2 token: ZoomLevel Neutral; ColorStyle Candy.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The AB5D header candidate is token 399000183 (edition 183), 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 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 120,141,171). File size 7086745 bytes. Indexed features: ZoomLevel Zoomed; ColorStyle Hue Changer [^S08][^S04][^S09]

Motion, interaction, and audio: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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

The Field is project 399 by Beervangeer 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? [^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. [The Field by Beervangeer collection page](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/the-field-by-beervangeer). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S02]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [projects_metadata record for the-field-by-beervangeer](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S03]: Beervangeer. [The Field on-chain artist program](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S04]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [tokens_metadata for sampled The Field token IDs](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S05]: Art Blocks. [Canonical token pages for sampled The Field outputs](https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069/399000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S06]: Art Blocks project record. [Reported artwork licence label NFT License 2.0](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/the-field-by-beervangeer). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S07]: Beervangeer. [The Field official description](https://www.artblocks.io/info/spectrum/in-conversation-with-beervangeer-the-field). 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 The Field tokens](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069/399000000.png). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S10]: Art Blocks. [Live generator renderer for The Field](https://generator.artblocks.io/0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069/399000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.