ECLIPSE OF A NEW ORDER
2026
KANTFISH
Photography, video, sound, web programming, and real-time temporal synchronization
24-hour web artwork activated in real time during the total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026
Unique digital edition 1/1
The edition comprises the executable web artwork, the source code, the master audiovisual files, complete documentation of the live activation, the installation protocol, and a digital certificate of authenticity registered on the blockchain.
Optional physical delivery available upon the collector’s request.
About the artwork
Developed from Perspective of a New Order, presented at The Wrong Biennale, Eclipse of a New Order continues an investigation into contemporary systems of perception.
The metropolis has reached a point where the excess of signals, information and instructions no longer produces understanding but automatic behaviour.
What becomes possible when we recognize that noise and begin to silence it within ourselves?
The eclipse creates a brief condition in which attention can shift away from the continuous pressure of the system.
Through observation and a renewed identification with our own nature, the interruption becomes an occasion for inward reflection and for questioning the identity that the surrounding system continuously constructs.
Rather than illustrating the eclipse, the piece accompanies this transition from external noise towards another condition of perception.
Everything may return exactly as before. Or not.
Eclipse of a New Order begins with a photograph. A single image of Times Square taken from the wrong side. Not the postcard. Not the angle everyone knows. The reverse side of the spectacle. What looks like a collage is a photograph. What looks like order is a system on the verge of collapse.
The artwork does not add narrative to the image. It adds time. And an eclipse.
TEMPORAL STRUCTURE
00:00–18:28 · Urban loop state
18:28–19:30 · Gradual luminosity increase
19:30 · Maximum eclipse state
19:30:26 · Anomalous image event
19:30:26–20:23 · Return phase
20:23–23:59 · Re-stabilized urban loop state
23:59 · System closure
FULL DOCUMENTATION
Exhibitions and Press
Eclipse of a New Order exhibited on August 12, 2026, at the following URL:
https://eclipse.artkantfish.com/.
The sound installation of Eclipse of a New Order was also selected and exhibited at The Wrong Eclipse, the special event by The Wrong Biennale dedicated to the August 12, 2026 eclipse. An international 24-hour sound exhibition, curated by one of the leading digital art biennials:: https://thewrong.org.
PRESS
Technical Sheet
Title: Eclipse of a New Order
Author: Kantfish
Year: 2026
Format: 24-hou web artwork
Access: Unique URL active on August 12, 2026: eclipse.artkantfish.com
Base image: Perspective of a New Order, photograph from the Metrópolis series
Synchronized event: Partial solar eclipse, maximum at 19:30 WEST, Portugal
Totality duration: 26 seconds, northeastern Portugal
Produced in: Portugal
Sonic version presented at: The Wrong Eclipse 2026
Limited Certified Edition
Edition 1/1
This artwork exists in a single edition: 1 of 1. There will be no second edition, no new activation, and no later version reproducing its conditions.
Eclipse of a New Order was artistically activated only once, on August 12, 2026, synchronized minute by minute with the solar eclipse observed from Montesinho, an unrepeatable astronomical, geographic, and temporal alignment.
Acquiring this piece is acquiring the artwork in the one instant it was ever able to exist.
Certificado de Autenticidad
The authenticity and ownership of this artwork are certified on-chain, permanently recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. This record is immutable and publicly verifiable by anyone, at any time, independent of intermediaries or the continued existence of any company. It is the strongest possible guarantee that this piece, and only this piece, is the original edition.
Delivery
Upon acquisition, the collector receives the following:
• the executable web artwork
• the system source code
• the master audiovisual files
• the installation protocol
• the number of the holographic seal integrated into the web artwork
• the digital certificate of authenticity registered on the blockchain, bearing the same holographic number
• the complete Activation Archive from the live activation of August 12, 2026
• the artist’s record made during the activation
• a private transfer, installation, and verification session with the artist
The artwork is intended for long-term conservation and future exhibition, while preserving its original temporal structure and conceptual integrity.
Digital Delivery
Delivery will take place digitally via end-to-end encrypted transfer, with zero-knowledge architecture. The transfer also incorporates integrity verification through a cryptographic fingerprint.
Optional Physical Delivery
Upon the collector’s request, the edition may also be delivered on physical media, accompanied by a signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity bearing a holographic seal, with the blockchain-registered digital certificate remaining, in all cases, the primary document of authenticity.
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OTHER ARTWORKS BY KANTFISH
Kantfish (Emanuele Giusto) is a Mixed Media Artist whose practice articulates photography, traditional media and digital technologies, including artificial intelligence. His research operates between the visual and the conceptual, approaching reality not as representation, but as a philosophical problem transferred to the perceptual field. In this framework, the exploration of the complexity of the real becomes a way of expanding individual consciousness and reconfiguring the collective imaginary.
Kantfish as a multidisciplinary author was born in Italy, under the ancestral colors of Etna. He develops his international practice based in Portugal and Spain, exploring the tension between reality, its symbolic layers and its representation through the concept that vertebrates his work: “More Than Real”.
Kantfish develops a modus operandi that starts from photography, applying a precise, almost surgical eye to natural, urban, and human landscapes, transforming them into abstract spaces that are revealed through the eye of the soul.
His personal and professional journey, with stages in Italy, Madrid, Mallorca, Luanda, Santiago in Cape Verde, and Miami, has shaped a perspective that operates at the intersection of documentary, fiction, and cultural analysis.
He has been recognized in international awards and biennials. His work circulates internationally through galleries, platforms and agencies including 4/d Arty, Tricera (Japan), Saatchi Art (USA), Flecha (Spain), and artist agencies such as Vi-art and Leg Up.
He shapes his visual perspective through photography, digital tools, cinema, writing, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and live interventions, crafting a hybrid language that intertwines critical thinking, journalistic research, and contemporary art practices.
For over two decades, he has published in media such as XL Semanal, El País Semanal, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, L’Espresso, and Il Messaggero.
This experience shapes his critical approach to the image and the way he unfolds visual narratives.
He has written scripts for programs broadcast on television networks such as Dmax.tv (Discovery Inc. Media), Warner Bros. Discovery, and audiovisual projects for organizations like the United Nations’ FAO, including the World Water Day campaign, where he integrates aesthetics, communication, and social research.
His film El Dulce Sabor del Éxito ( 2023), winner of the Artistic Merit Award at the Impact Docs Awards, was the first Spanish documentary to premiere in a metaverse cinema in collaboration with the Decentraland Foundation. He is also the author of Il giro d’Europa con 30€ ( Feltrinelli) and CryptoJungla, cited by Nature magazine.
