About
Loucas Braconnier (alias Figure31)
Born in the late 90s, lives and works in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Visual artist. Digital Photography, prints, blockchain art, sculpture, and other inventions.
Studies
arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal
Cinéma et médias, cégep St-Laurent
Photography, Collège Jean-Eudes
contact
X (twitter): @figure31_ ↗
telegram: @figure31 ↗
discord: @figure31 ↗
Selected Exhibitions, Releases and Projects
2025
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Outliers, Abu Dhabi ↗
Flaming Star
Blue Moon
Rhizome World, New York ↗
2024
dear god, layer of roads (travellers)/World computer sculpture garden ↗
Reaper agent
Anticipation (of a future event)
Line
2023
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$RG
LUX
Proof of X: Blockchain As A New Medium For Art, tokyo ↗
Proof of concept, Singapore ↗
2022
dead ends
Limit/Tribute to Herbert W. Franke, art meets science ↗
mark
atlas
2021
unshaded
Salt/Exit through the gift shop, Juried Protocol Galleries (JPG) ↗
LYAM
erased low effort "NFT"
2020
Riot 2:5/prix d'excellence robert-wolfe/Passage à découvert, Gallerie de l'UQAM, Montréal ↗
2019
La Communauté Terrible: Sur la Fin d'un Tas de Choses, compton, Qc ↗
Press
The Protocol Art Exhibition Entirely on Ethereum ↗ World Computer Sculpture Garden, Something very onchain, but a little different. ↗ NFTnow, A Deep Dive into Wildxyz's First Group Exhibition "MATERIAL" ↗ Boys Club Context, Wild Summit: Nancy Baker Cahill and Figure 31 ↗ Proof of X, Tokyo ↗ Proof of Concept, Singapore ↗ Outland, Behold The Rock ↗ New Forum, Blockchain Technology Redefining Creativity & Transforming The Creator Economy ↗ Duncan Cooper, Lost in Time ↗ FingerprintsDAO, SALT ↗ Vertical Crypto Art, SALT: impermanent beauty ↗ Ipse Dixit Podcast, NFT Notes 15 ↗ Juried Protocol Galleries, Exit through the gift shop ↗ UQAM, Prix d'excellence Robert-Wolfe ↗ Tzvetnik, La communauté terrible ↗
Works
SALT
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31) & 0xmons, 2021
180 digital photographs and dynamic metadata erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet
2240 x 3360 px, JPEG files, solidity smart contract
Sensors. Proof of photographic space. They exist as much for the viewer as for the tools used to make them. They emanate from the world, but tell nothing about it. They are drawings of the map in the machine. They have neither subject nor depth. They aren't meant to be read but seen up close. They show what the camera sensor sees, what is normally invisible. Digital noise. Salt.
Starting from a base of 180 photographs, the NFTs in SALT will first display a different image and name in this set and cycle to the next on a daily basis. In sum, the underlying smart contract sets all 180 NFTs into an endless, asynchronous loop. No owner possesses a specific image, all are collectively shared.
In collaboration with Juried Protocol Galleries (JPG).
Exhibition/Publication history
2024, Abu Dhabi Finance week, Abu Dhabi
2023, Proof of concept, Singapore
2022, The New Creator Economy, Japan
2021, Non-Fungible-Castle, House of Lobkowicz, Prague
2021, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Juried Protocol Galleries
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Provenance
LYAM
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2021 340 digital images and erc-1155 tokens, ethereum mainnet 10000 x 4000 px, B&W PNG files. A loss of memory and information, caused, and repaired, by an automated algorithmic process. The machine fills the void it itself created in an attempt to parallel the experience of the characters depicted in the source material. 340 individual frames from Alain Renais' 1961 Last Year at Marienbad are autonomously reduced to grayscale 4x10 pixel grids then scaled up 1000 times using a bilinear interpolation algorithm. Each artwork can be recreated using only its title, which contains the necessary instructions and information for this process: LYAM_serial number_grid format_concatenated grayscale values string_scale_interpolation algorithm. Collectors only need to save the title of their token to safekeep the work. The collection was made with banal tools and deployed via a shared standardized smart contract, entering into dialogue with, and acting as a counterpoint to, generative art and on-chain storage. A gesture of contradiction towards the prevalent idea that good art requires complex technical apparatus.
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LINE
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2024 625 digital photographs and 100 dynamic metadata erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet 2600 x 3932 px, JPEG files, solidity smart contract LINE is a photographic series of 250 tokens placed within a synthetic landscape. Using photographic and post-production techniques similar to Figure31's SALT, the images in LINE are captured using a digital camera combined with ultra-telephoto lenses. All photographs are taken in remote empty landscapes at sundown or night. There is no artificial light, only indirect natural light hitting the camera sensor. Photographs are arranged as panoramas to recreate a unified landscape. The landscape is made up of a grid with distinct coordinates. Every token has an origin point which defines a unique "field of view." The origin point determines a token's dynamism — and potential movements on the grid. They can be moved to new coordinates through the project's website or the smart contract. Tokens act like camera lenses, where location also influences perception. Each token's position on the grid defines what image it perceives. The metadata of a token is dynamic; images and attributes travel back and forth between the different points within the reach of its field of view. Most tokens will have a 180-degree view, and only 25 "star" tokens will have a 360-degree view. Images cycle daily. In collaboration with FingerprintsDAO
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Contract Address 0xc49d27c4a520a71ff899de7aca9fb56794bb0f1e ↗ Project Site ↗ Planche ↗ Collection dynamism diagrams ↗ LINE grid images (x,y)
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Provenance
dear god, layer of roads (travelers)
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2024
ethereum mainnet
Variable dimensions, text, smart contract
DGLR (T) is a dynamic smart contract artwork on the Ethereum Blockchain, allowing individual addresses to travel through time, represented by Ethereum Blocks. These travelers may move forward or backward in time. As they start their journeys, each block spent travelling adds a character to an ever-evolving string, shaping their individual landscape. With each passing day, they leave a footprint on a collective landscape, which becomes part of all other individual landscapes. Once a traveler ends a journey, a monument is generated upon the landscape. Its size is proportionate to the length of the previous journey.
This artwork creates parallels between real and virtual time, scaling alongside another perpetually expanding network. It forever pushes against the limited computational environment of the Ethereum blockchain—a negative space growing within a positive one. After Michael Heizer, Double Negative.
To travel, connect your wallet and choose your travel direction: either [forward] or [backward]. You are free to stop at any time. When you do so, a monument will be added to the end of your previous landscape. If you wish to travel again, you will start from the block at which you last exited.
All travels are recorded on-chain. The contract's limited read functions only allow viewers to generate fragments of landscapes. However, complete ones can be generated off-chain using the algorithm provided within the contract or by downloading them from this page.
By Figure31 in collaboration with 0xfff, created for the World Computer Sculpture Garden
Exhibition/Publication history
2025, Non Fungible Conference, Lisbon
2025, Rhizome World, New York
2024, World Computer Sculpture Garden
LUX
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31) 2023
176 digital photographs and dynamic metadata erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet
3900 x 5898 px, JPEG files, solidity smart contract
LUX is a collection of 176 photographs split into four distinct phases. The sun's eleven-year oscillation is a dynamic unifying factor for all phases. Similar to four movements of a larger composition, each phase is a closed system. The images contained in a phase presaged the others. They cycle across tokens but are restricted to their own set of loops. Still, a few have broken out and remain petrified.
By Figure31 in collaboration with Wildxyz.
Exhibition/Publication history
2023, Blockchain As A New Medium For Art, Proof of X, Tokyo, Japan
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dead ends
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2022 442 erc-721 tokens and 2652 images (6 per token), canto mainnet Variable dimensions, PNG files. DEAD ENDS is a series of night photographs depicting chaotic woodlands. A single camera flash illuminates what immediately lies ahead. A lost wanderer seeking companionship amongst an entangled landscape. Every step forward provides more comfort and clarity, yet confusion and fear remain. In these images, the natural environment and the digital representation combine. They reference pop art and painting techniques while remaining anchored in digital photography, as one can hardly distinguish between foliage and noise. Original photographs are decoupled into six colour channels, then rendered to bitmap matrixes. Collectors collectively share these different images, yet they all possess a unique fraction and will participate in the culminating curation of this dynamic collection. Every $DED ERC721 mint will be accompanied by a balance of $UP ERC20 tokens which can be used to upsample the images of the $DED tokens, adding more information and density. This upsampling process can be repeated five times and requires spending a certain amount of $UP tokens. The total amount needed to upsample an image fully will require combining the $UP balances of two $DED mints. The final appearance of the collection will be determined by the collectors' choices, who can use the token's attributes to inform their decisions. Project Site ↗
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IFICE
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2022 6884 digital images and erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet 1500 x 1500 px, JPEG files. IFICE is made up of 6884 unique frames, with each image derived from 22 larger sequences. Digital artifices and memories shared amongst collectors. Each IFICE token is a ticket that can only ever be claimed once. Claiming enables access to a digital viewing room to experience a short montage that connects every frame of a ticket's associated sequence. After this single viewing, the ticket survives as a standalone artwork. It persists as a memento experentia, a fully tradable souvenir of a past experience. A lost frame in time. Mint (1032/6884) ↗ Viewing Room ↗
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Contract Address 0x69c0fea1f6ef053b5d72083bae3db79af7e54909 ↗
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atlas
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2022- 60 digital images and erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet Variable dimensions, JPEG files. A scattered composite history, reillustrated through machine hallucinations prematurely arrested, refusing accurate representation. Individual outputs altered into pixellated textures, then force-fitted through flattening constraints. Descriptions of historical and cosmographical images from Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas are fed to a VQGAN+CLIP neural network, and the generation process is stopped early on after a couple of intervals to preserve the incomplete state of outputs. These proto-images are then processed with different post-production tools and arranged into grids following their original planche's layouts. Inside the description of each token, there is a folder link containing the prompts used for each planche and their individual processed images. Collectors can use these individual images as they see fit. 60 compositions released progressively starting 29/05/2022, 22 have been minted so far. Acquire on demand.
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ERASED
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2021 4 digital images and erc-1155 tokens, ethereum mainnet 3900 x 4750, PNG files with transparent borders. Reenactment of Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing, applied to Max Osiris' "low effort NFT". A reiteration of a vapid gesture, recontextualized within digital image concerns and editing techniques. Four different digital erasure methods were used on the original file provided by the artist: correction, duplication, laplacian edge detection filtering, and color inversion. Where Rauschenberg's gesture required slow and meticulous labor on a unique physical drawing, these digital erasures were produced almost instantaneously and are infinitely reproducible. The relevance of the reenacted gesture is put into question symbolically and technically. Nevertheless, this simple negation serves as an appropriation mechanism. Made with the artist's consent. About low effort "NFT" ↗
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Contract Address 0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e (OpenSea Shared Storefront) ↗
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Provenance
anticipation of a future event
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2024 Altered scanned inkjet print transfer on synthetic paper, 119,886 tokens (open edition), ethereum mainnet 2210 x 3250 px (124 x 187 mm original), JPG file. Eclipse composition with planets and devil comet. For Eclipse L2 in collaboration with Rarible. About AOFE ↗ Rarible marketplace ↗ Exhibition/Publication history 2025, Unlock The Block (Rarible), Detroit, USA
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Contract Address 0x15c905dec8da0a90fa05f8121e8f8285d30ef1f4 ↗
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UNSHADED
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2021 10,000 generative unshaded 3D assets, images, and ERC-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet Variable dimensions, GLB files, PNG files, smart contract UNSHADED ROCKS is a collection of 10,000 tridimensional primitive assets. They possess form yet remain untouched. Existing between two speculative states—beyond nature, products of the digitized hand. Each contains multitudes of what was and what's to come. All assets are unique and procedurally generated, offering 37 different types, each with varying levels of surrealism and rarity. These rocks are intentionally "unshaded" devoid of colour or texture. What you see is the foundational material of all digital 3D objects: polygons. Their appearance is dynamic, adapting to their surroundings and rendering context. 1467/10000 minted as of 02/09/2025 Project site ↗
Collection files
Contract Address 0xfda1d24E927f8DA58f86F653E976cb1F7e6CC9b7 ↗
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Provenance
mark
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31) & 0xmons, 2022
500 GAN-Generated images and erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet, 42 sets of 5 engraved silver rings
2000 x 2000 px, JPEG files,
Machine-generated fingerprints and names for fictive identities, waiting to be claimed. Collectors were invited to acquire marks as their own, and realize an act of becoming. As they did so, the exhibition space became progressively empty.
The collection features 500 GAN-generated fingerprints rendered in a pixelated style, each paired with procedurally generated surnames. These digital marks can bridge to physical form: when five are assembled, they unlock a set of silver rings engraved with wallet addresses, private keys, and domain names, creating a trust bond between artist and collectors through shared secret information. Only 42 sets are available. The entire collection was first exhibited on (GALLERY), where collectors manually selected pre-minted assets of their choosing. As tokens were acquired, the exhibition page emptied, ultimately leaving a blank white screen, echoing Yves Klein's "The Void" at Iris Clert Gallery in 1958. Where Klein presented an empty gallery filled only by visitors' presence, MARK inverts this: the gallery empties as visitors take pieces of it with them, each departure an act of identity adoption.
In collaboration with (GALLERY).
Exhibition/Publication history
2022, The New Creator Economy, Japan
2022, (GALLERY)
Collection files
Contract Address 0x5872c9360cb6d6a0309f3045376e2bf8e7837971 ↗
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Provenance
LIMIT
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2022 341 on-chain images and erc-721 tokens, ethereum mainnet B&W SVG files Pure colors at the edge of perception that can neither be represented with screen or ink. These colors define the limit of human vision as established by industrial standards, and their impossibility to be represented forces them to be technically defined and textually rendered, leaving imagination the only tool at our disposal to see them. Each LIMIT token represents a monochromatic color—a pure hue of a single wavelength. The 341 text-based and fully on-chain SVG tokens trace the coordinates of the 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram spectral locus. The blockchain stores representational information it cannot display. Released on the occasion of the Tribute to Herbert W. Franke. By Figure31 in collaboration with Morgan Ali. 52/340 minted as of 17/11/2025
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reaper's gambit
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31) & anons, 2023- ERC-20 tokens, dynamic metadata erc-721 tokens, multi-model agent solidity smart contracts (ethereum mainnet), SVG, Python Reaper's Gambit is an ongoing series of explorations with fungible-tokens-as-a-medium, fully on-chain dynamic artworks, and artificial intelligence. $RG is an ERC20 that becomes non-transferable after 64800 blocks (9 days). Holders must continuously transfer their tokens to a new address before the period ends; otherwise, they will be locked. This added mechanism significantly deflates the token supply over time and invites the holders to reflect on the trials of ownership and long-term posession of wealth. The "Immortal" NFT Wrapper was created as an extention to $RG to allow holders to wrap their ERC-20 tokens into an ERC-721 token in exchange for a tribute (token burn) to death (0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead). This process allows holders to collect the tokens long-term and not be affected by the 9-day cycle locking mechanism. The metadata of each token and the artwork is entirely stored on-chain and dynamically generated upon minting. The value of the tribute fluctuates based on the supply of wrapped tokens. Following a renewed interest for $RG in 2024, an AI persona of the Grim Reaper was created. The Reaper Agent is a multi-model LLM agent that uses both mainstream models and custom fine tuned models. It is trained on historical texts, poems, songs, operas, movie scripts, and other materials from the 16th century to today that explore the personification of death, the cyberpunk genre, and different contemporary media analysis writers.
blue moon
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2025 88,888,888 ERC20 tokens, 22 dynamic ERC721 tokens, 1 ERC721 token, base mainnet HSL colour values, SVG, smart contract Blue Moon ($BMOON) is a dual ERC20-ERC721 release where minting generates random blue HSL color values stored on-chain. Every address's participation leaves an everlasting trace through contract event logs, indexed to deterministically generate a collectively-owned artwork. The project recontextualizes common on-chain experiences, such as token minting and on-chain generative art. It defines a range of digital colours using self-referential values and arranges them according to different rules and input parameters: randomness, deterministic shuffling, equal representation, and live blockchain data. Owners of $BMOON can claim NFTs that generate entirely on-chain dynamic art. Artworks are 22 x 22 grids of 242 unique random blue hues, each used twice, laid out with a pseudo-Fisher-Yates shuffle. The owner's address and the latest mined block seed the generation. Every time the contract's read function is called, outputs change. The artist's hand gives way to algorithmic fairness and the chaotic, evolving nature of blockchain events. Collectors and the blockchain act as participants in the making. Like Gerhard Richter's "4096 Farben", these pieces sit between accumulation and distribution, calculation and randomness, system and chaos. A meditation on cryptocurrency's obsession with scarcity, supply caps, and numerical fetishism, rendered through the artistic legacy of systematic colour explorations. The lack of determinism is enhanced by the refusal to confine generative outputs to a fixed outcome.
flaming star
Loucas Braconnier (Figure31), 2025 666,666,666,666 ERC20 tokens, 33 dynamic ERC721 tokens, base mainnet HSL colour values, SVG, smart contract Flaming Star ($FSTAR) is a dual ERC20-ERC721 release, a larger-scale suite to Blue Moon. The token generates colour events during mint and transfer transactions. Mints create a fixed 100,000-cell grid visible on the homepage. Transfers populate two canvases: a live 3,000-cell grid on the transfers page, and a perpetually expanding canvas on the show all tab. These transfer colour generation events can be amplified with the help of a special contract that generates 33 mathematically random addresses and sends each of them 1 $FSTAR token, all within a single transaction. Owners of $FSTAR tokens can claim NFTs that generate entirely on-chain dynamic art. The artworks are 11 x 11 grids of 121 hues, seeded by the owner's address and the latest mined block. Every time the contract's read function is called, outputs change. Owners of these NFTs receive 50% of the USDC fees from the token pool, which utilizes a custom hook that automatically redistributes fees when the DistributeFees function is used. Both ERC20 and ERC721 contracts utilize the same HSL colour range, inspired by the OBAFGKM spectral types of stellar temperatures. Where Piet Mondrian sought to minimize subjectivity and Gerhard Richter eliminated it through randomness, Flaming Star displaces it into system architecture. Authorship moves from composition to participative system design, from making images to making image-generating systems bounded by self-referential parameters and network activity. Collectors perform both voluntary and involuntary creative acts: token creation and transfers—the basic primitives of distributed ledgers, which can be indexed and amplified. Together, they draw a star map with no legend or borders, a heatmap of events that hold no meaning beyond their occurrence.
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Project Site ↗ Contract Address ERC20 0x727BcEDaEa3661fd31A9e03b4f59ddA6E5aA38c4 ↗ Contract Address ERC721 0x8cB191A3A9dce80A44E0A0776CD76473519CaB27 ↗ Contract Address Amplifier 0xeF4Cfa6851BE9A2602b2039deaE3a32004c157a5 ↗ Contract Address Hook 0xdc8F0c4e5DbD7b8c96fb7B8E8eAaC4dbF6B3c044 ↗ USDC/FSTAR Pool ↗