proper
hi, i’m matt, though you probably know me as proper. collector, occasional writer, and full-time enjoyoooor of things most people find too niche to care about. i’m currently at ancora thinking about utxos as mediums.
projects
- ordspv: trustless resolution of bitcoin inscription content. ord: uris plus spv proofs let any wallet or webpage fetch inscribed content from untrusted servers and verify every byte against proof of work. includes specs, libraries, and browser demos.
- bitcoin may be dumb but it ain’t stupid: proofs of concept treating bitcoin script as a computational substrate for generative art. parts 1 + 2, part 3.
- sat_check: scan a bitcoin address for utxos containing sats by date or block. rarity classification, pattern detection, and shareable scan urls.
curations
- do not accumulate by martin lukas ostachowski, 2026: a digital euro that loses a unit of value every month, each edition offset from its siblings so the series displays every state of its own decay at once. the parents rest on uncommon sats mined on the days central banks moved toward programmable money.
- O(1) by hashrunner, 2026: a zero-knowledge protocol artwork whose entire history of ownership, however deep, collapses to a single constant committed to one slot of ethereum storage. each collector extends a recursive proof by exactly one layer, deepening the certainty of a single fact. my editorial on the work.
- synthetic mythologies, 2025: a group exhibition exploring how modern-day myths are generated on servers and in the feed, co-authored by recommendation systems and the attention they capture. presented in collaboration with nolcha at m2 miami during art basel miami beach 2025.
- viewfinder by marcel schwittlick, 2025: beneath the visible surfaces of klimt’s iconic paintings revealed via modern scanning technologies and into marcel schwittlick’s generative reinterpretation.
- singular.art, 2023–2025: curated digital art platform focused on novel approaches to art on bitcoin. collaborated on works and series releases with hashrunner, zond, lovid, loren bednar, ralenarc, jimena buena vida, ivy, and the color blocks. now part of ancora.
- all at once, 2024: a group exhibition exploring the concept of time and chronology in blockchain art in the context of ordinals sequencing. featuring works by sarah meyohas, matto - shinkai, rhea myers, mia forrest, rudxane, jennifer and kevin mccoy, oto, john provencher, and constant dullaart. presented in collaboration with sssluke + grailers and verse.
- perceive(light), 2022: my curation for the perceive() group show presented at the art blocks house during marfa weekend 2022. perceive() was curated in collaboration with 0xtechno with perceive(color) and plutonium f. with perceive(form).