Previous XCOPY artworks were high-resolution GIF animations, with most images stored on IPFS or a server. In other words, XCOPY would pre-create and save the image, and we would view it by loading or downloading it from the server. That is, we were looking at an already completed image. However, ICXN is a generative art piece based on the Art Blocks engine, and it does not provide a separate image file. Instead, it only provides the "instruction manual (code)" for creating the image. The computer (browser) reads that manual and newly draws the exact same image on the spot every time. In other words, while it looks identical to the eye, it is an always newly generated image. The result is the same, but the method is completely different. This is not a simple technical difference; it is the message of the work itself. It is also a deconstruction and reset of the existing GIF aesthetic. The previous XCOPY conveyed the aesthetic of 'glitch + gif', Glitch Art being the aesthetic of technical error, which XCOPY expresses through flickering. While it spoke of a dystopia of inescapable, closed-loop dehumanization and ego collapse, in this new Art Blocks engine-based generative art, the method has shifted from 'showing' the emotion (pain) through GIF to 'making one see' the essence (the rule/law) through generativity. Of course, it still talks about the dystopia of inescapable, closed-loop dehumanization and ego collapse, but the core difference is not "What is being said," but "How it is being said." Thus, the aesthetic of 'gif + glitch' became code, and code symbolizes the system, ultimately conveying that 'the essence is the system.' And while previous works expressed excessive emotion, in this new work, all figures have been removed, and only simple forms remain. As the title suggests, XCOPY has deconstructed his ICON (symbol) into ICXN. ICXN does not depict the suffering skull. The system itself that tormented him has become the image. "Representation is a mirage created by the system." @XCOPYART #ICXN xcopy.art/works/icxn