The symbolic nucleus of XCOPY’s practice, The Doomed Set reads as a visual manifesto. Four works that, while maintaining their own iconographic autonomy, share a common language of infinite loops, visual glitches, and obsessive repetition. Their strength lies not only in aesthetics but in concept: the loop becomes a metaphor for the human condition in the digital era, an existence suspended in a continuum of birth, death, and re-generation. More than a group of images, the set becomes a cosmos speaking of collective vulnerability in the face of technological systems that are as powerful as they are inevitably fallible. 

Among the most celebrated and consequential works in the history of digital art, Right-Click and Save As Guy is the very manifesto of the NFT condition. With biting irony, XCOPY transforms the most banal critique of digital art “you can just right-click and save it” into the artwork itself. Its conceptual force lies in reversal: what appears infinitely reproducible becomes unrepeatable through the blockchain, which does not freeze the image but certifies its status. In this tension between copy and uniqueness, one of the most radical redefinitions of ownership and value in contemporary culture takes shape. Right-Click and Save As Guy is not merely a hypnotic animation but a historical document, a foundational act that marked digital art’s entry into the canon. 

XCOPY’s first series minted on SuperRare is also one of the clearest poetic declarations of his practice. Loading New Conflict Redux captures the suspended time of digital waiting: the buffer that never ends, the promise of conflict that remains in potential, never reaching resolution. It is a disturbing yet hypnotic image of an era defined by perpetual tension and deferred resolution. In this unfinished image resonates XCOPY’s entire universe: instability as destiny, interruption as language, the glitch as truth. 

A collective body that assembles even as it disintegrates: The State of Us (Blue) is a meditation on connected humanity. Figures fused into an indistinct mass evoke both communion and the erasure of individuality. Here XCOPY narrates the tension between the utopia of connection and the dystopia of dissolution, between the desire for belonging and the risk of alienation. The work is a restless loop that mirrors the contemporary condition: an unceasing flow of data and bodies, where presence blurs into disappearance. 

An iconic and prophetic work, Last Selfie elevates the everyday act of digital self-portraiture into an epitaph of our visual culture. XCOPY stages both the tragedy and parody of an identity that asserts itself only to dissolve, reducing the selfie, symbol of affirmation and memory, into a flickering glitch, already in ruin. It is a masterpiece of tragic irony: a laugh that already contains the sound of an ending. Here the artist condenses the essence of his language: satire, death, and melancholy fused into an inescapable loop. 

Among XCOPY’s most radical experiments, these works introduce interactivity as a central element. They represent the highest expression of blockchain-enabled digital art, where an artwork can mutate and transform over time. For the first time, the collector assumes an active role, becoming co-creator by altering and controlling the visual outcome.

The story of Doom Party also testifies to the power of community: after Async announced its closure, Adam ( member of our DAO ) undertook the monumental task of rebuilding the website and mechanisms from scratch, ensuring the work’s survival. This act highlights not only the importance of the collector’s role in the digital era but also the value of community-driven preservation. Different states of these works (four per piece) further reinforce the theme of perpetual transformation. Death’s Hand exemplifies this dynamic potential. 

One of XCOPY’s most emblematic works, a looping burst of glitch, distortion, and visual decay that turns digital noise into a contemporary memento mori. Though minted on the blockchain, often associated with permanence, the piece speaks of impermanence, fragility, and the inevitability of breakdown. MORTAL confronts the fantasy of digital immortality with the reality of human finitude, using glitch as both language and warning. 

A provocative series in which glitch aesthetic, looping motion and dystopian overtones merge. Minted in January 2020 and issued as an edition, it represents the artist’s confrontation with collective chaos, the unruly mass, the noise beneath the surface of digital culture. The work leverages flashing imagery and distorted composition not merely as style, but as metaphor: what happens when the crowd becomes code, the swarm becomes syntax. Here, identity dissolves into pattern, and the art becomes less about the individual and more about the collective meltdown of meaning. “The Rabble” stands as a signature piece of XCOPY’s exploration of participation, collapse and the digital condition. 

The Grifters embody the mask and raw flesh of the crypto universe. With a deliberately unsettling, anti-heroic aesthetic, XCOPY shatters the illusion of polished identities to deliver a gallery of corroded, deformed, corrosive faces. Far from being mere caricatures, the Grifters enact the artist’s sharpest critique of Web3’s celebratory iconography: they are the monsters born of speculation and performative identity. Like a digital Caravaggio, XCOPY exposes the shadows where others seek the aura.

They’re not here to be beautiful, They’re here to be honest.

And that’s exactly what makes them iconic. 

ICXN #398 marks the encounter between XCOPY and the generative aesthetics of blockchain art. Within the constellation of Art Blocks, this work pushes the idea of art-as-system to a new threshold: no longer a static image but a computational organism. The mathematical rules that structure its code are fused with the artist’s poetic intention, generating an outcome that is never definitive, always potential. Here XCOPY demonstrates that digital art need not merely represent, but can become a living process, an algorithmic form of life renewed through each gaze.