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“Good immersion lives in the space between, a double exposure of both the fictional world and the actual world at once. Early games understood this. You stared at a CRT screen with blocky pixels and somehow you were still in the dungeon.”
– Artist Peter Burr, on the liminal space where fictional worlds and IRL intersect. Chatting with Raquel Gaudard ahead of his Infinite Refill NFT drop, Burr discusses worldbuilding and his Aria Engine (2025) project.

Bootloader, the first experimental platform from objkt labs (the R&D wing of the objkt NFT marketplace), launches as an open-source generative art system on Tezos. It allows artists to create SVG-based algorithmic art stored directly on-chain with code remaining mutable post-mint—collectors can update their pieces as artists tweak underlying systems. The platform challenges the NFT paradigm of immutable editions, treating code as living creative material.

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