New exciting project by Swedish artist Jonas Lund is out at the Aorist marketplace. And it is an example of art practice and NFT tech making a perfect match.
MVP (Most Valuable Painting) is an online participatory project questioning how we define the meaning of value in contemporary art across aesthetics, sales, engagement, and influence.
MVP consists of 512 individual digital paintings that evolve and transform based on public reception, until they are acquired. Once an MVP is sold and minted as an NFT, the visual properties of that work will determine the aesthetic evolution of the remaining works, which slowly optimize their features and composition to mimic the characteristics of the more desirable paintings.
Each MVP’s aesthetic outcome is determined by a fitness algorithm that tracks each individual MVP’s performance in terms of likes, clicks, and user engagement.
It is fair to say that the last painting will gain the most "wanted" features of all the items, ultimately becoming the most valuable one.
512 digital paintings are on view across 36 outdoor screens at London’s W1 Curates.
MVP (Most Valuable Painting) is an online participatory project questioning how we define the meaning of value in contemporary art across aesthetics, sales, engagement, and influence.
MVP consists of 512 individual digital paintings that evolve and transform based on public reception, until they are acquired. Once an MVP is sold and minted as an NFT, the visual properties of that work will determine the aesthetic evolution of the remaining works, which slowly optimize their features and composition to mimic the characteristics of the more desirable paintings.
Each MVP’s aesthetic outcome is determined by a fitness algorithm that tracks each individual MVP’s performance in terms of likes, clicks, and user engagement.
It is fair to say that the last painting will gain the most "wanted" features of all the items, ultimately becoming the most valuable one.
512 digital paintings are on view across 36 outdoor screens at London’s W1 Curates.
You might remember Luna Ikuta, the artist behind permanently ephemeral floating flowers that can bring you to the state of existence at the very edge of total disappearance.
Today, April 11th, she proposes the present which non of us probably deserves.
REMEMBER ME is Luna's first dynamic NFT available on the afterlife.garden for 24 hours as live mint. It is completely open to the public, which means it's free. You will have to pay only for the gas.
Luna says that the code became the heart of the artwork and that she wanted to tell a story rather than only highlight the final result. Find ways to celebrate the mechanics that are unique to the blockchain that provide value to the overall experience.
Mint opens today at 8AM PST.
Don't miss your chance to own the flower from afterlife garden. It is kinda inevitable 😈
@mzm2night
Today, April 11th, she proposes the present which non of us probably deserves.
REMEMBER ME is Luna's first dynamic NFT available on the afterlife.garden for 24 hours as live mint. It is completely open to the public, which means it's free. You will have to pay only for the gas.
Luna says that the code became the heart of the artwork and that she wanted to tell a story rather than only highlight the final result. Find ways to celebrate the mechanics that are unique to the blockchain that provide value to the overall experience.
Mint opens today at 8AM PST.
Don't miss your chance to own the flower from afterlife garden. It is kinda inevitable 😈
@mzm2night
G4UKRAINE is a collection of Georgian NFT artists in support of the people of UKRAINE and includes 50 of space’s most influential artists.
Collection is presented by ArtUp - Street Gallery. The proceeds from the sale of works will be fully transferred to the Ukrainian people for humanitarian purposes.
Moreover, all royalties from secondary sales will either go towards those same efforts, or towards supporting Ukrainian artists, charity, and/or art initiatives of the participating artist’s choice.
Cover image: Mutual Resonance by Davit Gelukashvili (dgdecay)
#standwithUkraine
Collection is presented by ArtUp - Street Gallery. The proceeds from the sale of works will be fully transferred to the Ukrainian people for humanitarian purposes.
Moreover, all royalties from secondary sales will either go towards those same efforts, or towards supporting Ukrainian artists, charity, and/or art initiatives of the participating artist’s choice.
Cover image: Mutual Resonance by Davit Gelukashvili (dgdecay)
#standwithUkraine
Fashion for Peace NFT Collection by Vogue Singapore x Vogue Ukraine.
Calling on Ukrainian and Ukrainian-based creatives Vogue Ukraine and Vogue Singapore are joining forces to help raise funds for humanitarian aid in Ukraine in wake of the ongoing Russian invasion of the country.
This special collaboration sees artworks, sketches and photographs available on ethereum-based platform OpenSea. Each NFT is available in 50 editions at 0.5ETH each.
All proceeds will be donated to the charity Save The Children Ukraine. With traditional banking institutions and infrastructures under attack, cryptocurrency has never been more of a useful medium than now. Thanks to the power of smart contracts attached to NFTs, this also ensures a royalty from each secondary sale in perpetuity goes directly to the charity as well.
Cover image: Molotov cocktail by Gunia Project
Vogue Singapore
Calling on Ukrainian and Ukrainian-based creatives Vogue Ukraine and Vogue Singapore are joining forces to help raise funds for humanitarian aid in Ukraine in wake of the ongoing Russian invasion of the country.
This special collaboration sees artworks, sketches and photographs available on ethereum-based platform OpenSea. Each NFT is available in 50 editions at 0.5ETH each.
All proceeds will be donated to the charity Save The Children Ukraine. With traditional banking institutions and infrastructures under attack, cryptocurrency has never been more of a useful medium than now. Thanks to the power of smart contracts attached to NFTs, this also ensures a royalty from each secondary sale in perpetuity goes directly to the charity as well.
Cover image: Molotov cocktail by Gunia Project
Vogue Singapore
Ukrainian artist Nikita Shalenny launched his first NFT series "Project Takeover".
Takeover is about the cynicism and violence that Russians show towards Ukrainians, trying to take away their freedom, their lives, and their land.
The artist reflects on atrocities made by Russian armed forces in Ukraine through imagining the series of horrific experiments. In this case, the violence is represented as a deliberate and well-planned act instead of random splash of emotions.
A crazy maniac violently takes away victim's limbs, brazenly declaring that these body parts do not belong to the person. The occupation of Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, etc. is the same as taking away another person's body parts - says Nikita.
40% of the raised funds will be donated to humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Cover image: Picture A, scene#4
@mzm2night
Takeover is about the cynicism and violence that Russians show towards Ukrainians, trying to take away their freedom, their lives, and their land.
The artist reflects on atrocities made by Russian armed forces in Ukraine through imagining the series of horrific experiments. In this case, the violence is represented as a deliberate and well-planned act instead of random splash of emotions.
A crazy maniac violently takes away victim's limbs, brazenly declaring that these body parts do not belong to the person. The occupation of Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, etc. is the same as taking away another person's body parts - says Nikita.
40% of the raised funds will be donated to humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Cover image: Picture A, scene#4
@mzm2night
Marni enters metaverse.
Bridging the gap between the physical and the digital, Marni is presenting selected runway looks from their latest Spring/Summer 2022 Vol.2 collection through the WEARWEARE digital experience. Working in collaboration with decentralised digital design studio FUTURECORP, Marni is welcoming its users to be the protagonists of the show, with the ability to transform oneself into an avatar, enhancing the physical state through digital technology to create a singular transformative experience. Through the platform, Marni are bringing their inspirations to life, without physical constraints, to foster a meaningful connection between the brand and its consumers.
Consisting of three functionalities, WEARWEARE presents Marni’s SS22 collection through a 3D interactive lookbook, an AR interface and an immersive, virtual environment, which brings users into a cinematic alternate reality. In this world, users are able to add products to their Wishlist while experiencing a digital psychedelic journey, emphasising the possibilities of the integration of fashion and the digital space (Sleek Mag)
And this move doesn't surprise at all. A little reminder that OTB (Only The Brave) Group, the international fashion group that owns global brands Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor & Rolf and others, at the end of 2021, has created a new business unit BVX (Brave Virtual Xperience). The new unit is entirely dedicated to the development of products, projects and experiences designed for the virtual world/metaverse.
“We see NFTs as a tool ... that can generate interest, can generate a new ecosystem, and also, of course, some extra revenues for our brands,” said Stefano Rosso, board member at Diesel- and Margiela-owned OTB (Business of Fashion).
@mzm2night
Bridging the gap between the physical and the digital, Marni is presenting selected runway looks from their latest Spring/Summer 2022 Vol.2 collection through the WEARWEARE digital experience. Working in collaboration with decentralised digital design studio FUTURECORP, Marni is welcoming its users to be the protagonists of the show, with the ability to transform oneself into an avatar, enhancing the physical state through digital technology to create a singular transformative experience. Through the platform, Marni are bringing their inspirations to life, without physical constraints, to foster a meaningful connection between the brand and its consumers.
Consisting of three functionalities, WEARWEARE presents Marni’s SS22 collection through a 3D interactive lookbook, an AR interface and an immersive, virtual environment, which brings users into a cinematic alternate reality. In this world, users are able to add products to their Wishlist while experiencing a digital psychedelic journey, emphasising the possibilities of the integration of fashion and the digital space (Sleek Mag)
And this move doesn't surprise at all. A little reminder that OTB (Only The Brave) Group, the international fashion group that owns global brands Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor & Rolf and others, at the end of 2021, has created a new business unit BVX (Brave Virtual Xperience). The new unit is entirely dedicated to the development of products, projects and experiences designed for the virtual world/metaverse.
“We see NFTs as a tool ... that can generate interest, can generate a new ecosystem, and also, of course, some extra revenues for our brands,” said Stefano Rosso, board member at Diesel- and Margiela-owned OTB (Business of Fashion).
@mzm2night
FRAME founder Robert Thiemann has curated a documentary series on the future of living as part of a project led by the Huawei Milan Aesthetic Research Centre. The films will be screened at digital culture centre MEET during Milan Design Week (5-12 June) 2022.
In the "Tomorrow Living", a four-part documentary series, the creators pose new living scenarios fit for a mixed-reality future. The emergent concepts look at the ways technology will become ubiquitous at home, making it possible to design spaces that are more sustainable, healthy and flexible.
FRAME
In the "Tomorrow Living", a four-part documentary series, the creators pose new living scenarios fit for a mixed-reality future. The emergent concepts look at the ways technology will become ubiquitous at home, making it possible to design spaces that are more sustainable, healthy and flexible.
FRAME
NFT and "crypto art" continue to invade the Venice Biennale.
The Committee of the Venice Biennale and the Cameroon Pavilion officially approved 22 artists to participate in the first edition of crypto art exhibition in the 59th Venice Biennale.
"The Time of the Chimeras" is curated by Sandro Orlandi Stag and will take place in Palazzo Bernardo from April 23 to November 27 2022.
The list of participating artist includes quite prominent digital artists, as well as young practitioners: Kevin Abosch, João Angelini, Marco Bertìn (Berxit), Cryptoart Driver, Lana Denina, Alberto Echegaray Guevara, Genesis People, Joachim Hildebrand, Meng Huang, Eduardo Kac, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Marina Nuñez, Miguel Soler-Roig, Miguel Ángel Vidal, Burkhard von Harder, Gabe Weis, Clark Winter, Shavonne Wong, Wang Xing, Alessandro Zannier, Mille Kalsmose, and ZZH.
Cover image by Marina Nuñez
#venicebiennale2022
The Committee of the Venice Biennale and the Cameroon Pavilion officially approved 22 artists to participate in the first edition of crypto art exhibition in the 59th Venice Biennale.
"The Time of the Chimeras" is curated by Sandro Orlandi Stag and will take place in Palazzo Bernardo from April 23 to November 27 2022.
The list of participating artist includes quite prominent digital artists, as well as young practitioners: Kevin Abosch, João Angelini, Marco Bertìn (Berxit), Cryptoart Driver, Lana Denina, Alberto Echegaray Guevara, Genesis People, Joachim Hildebrand, Meng Huang, Eduardo Kac, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Marina Nuñez, Miguel Soler-Roig, Miguel Ángel Vidal, Burkhard von Harder, Gabe Weis, Clark Winter, Shavonne Wong, Wang Xing, Alessandro Zannier, Mille Kalsmose, and ZZH.
Cover image by Marina Nuñez
#venicebiennale2022
The first digital sneakers by Nike and RTFKT are out now. And it was worth the wait.
The hype started in December 2021 when Nike acquired RTFKT, adding the ultra famous brand of virtual sneakers to the line with the brands like Jordan Brand and Converse.
In February, RTFKT had released NFT MNLTH, mysterious digital box with RTFKT and Nike logos on it. Up to yesterday, holders of this first co-branded NFT spent months solving elaborate riddles to unlock it.
Users will be able to customize their Nike Dunk Genesis CryptoKicks, using exclusive style-changing Skin Vial NFTs.
The brand also promised to launch a quest series to unlock the MNLTH 2 vaults later this year. Each pair of CryptoKicks will also feature an “evolution path” that enables them to be evolved in some way.
There is "verse" in Converse, can we expect some metaconverse any time soon?
@sabbathhawk
The hype started in December 2021 when Nike acquired RTFKT, adding the ultra famous brand of virtual sneakers to the line with the brands like Jordan Brand and Converse.
In February, RTFKT had released NFT MNLTH, mysterious digital box with RTFKT and Nike logos on it. Up to yesterday, holders of this first co-branded NFT spent months solving elaborate riddles to unlock it.
Users will be able to customize their Nike Dunk Genesis CryptoKicks, using exclusive style-changing Skin Vial NFTs.
The brand also promised to launch a quest series to unlock the MNLTH 2 vaults later this year. Each pair of CryptoKicks will also feature an “evolution path” that enables them to be evolved in some way.
There is "verse" in Converse, can we expect some metaconverse any time soon?
@sabbathhawk
Serenade to Spring by Daria Antypenko.
Serenade to Spring is a liberal 3D adaptation of the
most significant pieces from Ernst Haeckel's flower
series. This piece is inspired by his unique vision and
strong inimitable style.
#standwithUkraine
Serenade to Spring is a liberal 3D adaptation of the
most significant pieces from Ernst Haeckel's flower
series. This piece is inspired by his unique vision and
strong inimitable style.
#standwithUkraine
Let's start with artist/founder of Techism movement/Vogue Singapore Metaverse Editor
Krista Kim and a fragment of her recently-updated Techism© Manifesto:
Techism is a movement that reconciles technological innovation with the creation of art.
Techism understands innovation, be it technological or philosophical, as a medium in and of itself.
We are the masters of technology, and creating art is the expression of digital humanism.
Collaboration materializes consciousness. Art is consciousness. Techism is an appeal and return to that consciousness, the consciousness of art as shared, as thing, as idea and as experience.
The Gradient symbolizes our decentralized future.
In the digital age, data is power. Digital is fluid. We are more fluid.
The gradient transcends boundaries, transmuting colours into a unified spectrum that reveals unexpected beauty in collective unison—gradient beauty is the spirit of fluid digital culture.
It represents hope, freedom, individual expression, innovation, co-creation, collaboration and co-existence. Multiple colours are integrated as one, just as we are diverse human beings brought together on the internet.
We now transcend archaic, rigid schools of thought and belief systems to create new decentralized, transparent systems through the crypto revolution, allowing a holistic revolution to take shape.
We are more fluid in race, nationality, sexuality, gender, politics, spirituality… we are a gradient.
Krista Kim
#QTS
Krista Kim and a fragment of her recently-updated Techism© Manifesto:
Techism is a movement that reconciles technological innovation with the creation of art.
Techism understands innovation, be it technological or philosophical, as a medium in and of itself.
We are the masters of technology, and creating art is the expression of digital humanism.
Collaboration materializes consciousness. Art is consciousness. Techism is an appeal and return to that consciousness, the consciousness of art as shared, as thing, as idea and as experience.
The Gradient symbolizes our decentralized future.
In the digital age, data is power. Digital is fluid. We are more fluid.
The gradient transcends boundaries, transmuting colours into a unified spectrum that reveals unexpected beauty in collective unison—gradient beauty is the spirit of fluid digital culture.
It represents hope, freedom, individual expression, innovation, co-creation, collaboration and co-existence. Multiple colours are integrated as one, just as we are diverse human beings brought together on the internet.
We now transcend archaic, rigid schools of thought and belief systems to create new decentralized, transparent systems through the crypto revolution, allowing a holistic revolution to take shape.
We are more fluid in race, nationality, sexuality, gender, politics, spirituality… we are a gradient.
Krista Kim
#QTS
Legendary director David Cronenberg uses NFT to basically promote his forthcoming movie.
Cronenberg is offering a picture of his kidney stones as unique NFT noscriptd the Inner Beauty.
Reserve Price: 10 ETH
In the philosophical denoscription about the insides of his body, Cronenberg adds:
not surprisingly, perhaps, the collection also references my new movie, Crimes of the Future, which stars Viggo Mortensen as a performance artist whose art form involves public surgery on his own body, during which strange new organs of unknown function are removed and displayed. Art always has the last word.
Arguably, it is a first movie teaser immortalized as an NFT.
Cronenberg is offering a picture of his kidney stones as unique NFT noscriptd the Inner Beauty.
Reserve Price: 10 ETH
In the philosophical denoscription about the insides of his body, Cronenberg adds:
not surprisingly, perhaps, the collection also references my new movie, Crimes of the Future, which stars Viggo Mortensen as a performance artist whose art form involves public surgery on his own body, during which strange new organs of unknown function are removed and displayed. Art always has the last word.
Arguably, it is a first movie teaser immortalized as an NFT.
According to the 2022 Artsy Gallery Insights report by online sales platform Artsy, only 11 per cent of galleries sold NFTs in 2021, while 67 per cent say that their clients hadn’t even asked about them.
Some enthusiasm for NFTs remains: the report finds that a quarter of respondents plan to offer them this year.
Financial Times
https://on.ft.com/38qPDlK
Some enthusiasm for NFTs remains: the report finds that a quarter of respondents plan to offer them this year.
Financial Times
https://on.ft.com/38qPDlK
Marc Bain of Business of Fashion talked with RTFKT about their vision for the Future.
For RTFKT and Nike, sneaker NFTs are just the start. What RTFKT is really trying to do is construct the metaverse, step by step, by encouraging its audience to use its products as the building blocks.
It arguably makes RTFKT a new kind of brand — one poised somewhere between the currents of fashion, crypto and gaming, and well-positioned to capitalise on the growing confluence of the three.
If there’s one belief that unites and drives the three founders of RTFKT, it’s that the digital signifiers we use to broadcast our identities, tastes, social status and other traits are just as important as the physical ones.
“The vision has always been that in the future all your digital possessions will be a lot more valuable to you than your physical possessions, and that means both economically and emotionally,” Benoit Pagotto (RTFKT) said.
The point is to make all releases going forward interoperable, meaning they can be worn by a CloneX, displayed in the space pod or used in some other way with previous RTFKT items. Vasilev (RTFKT) said the next phase they’re moving into is “building full ecosystems and different units where everything will interlink.”
In doing so, RTFKT allows its fans to combine its products in different ways, involving them in building its mini-universe. Items like the Nike CryptoKicks are also AR-enabled, so parts of that universe can be overlaid on the real world.
For RTFKT and Nike, sneaker NFTs are just the start. What RTFKT is really trying to do is construct the metaverse, step by step, by encouraging its audience to use its products as the building blocks.
It arguably makes RTFKT a new kind of brand — one poised somewhere between the currents of fashion, crypto and gaming, and well-positioned to capitalise on the growing confluence of the three.
If there’s one belief that unites and drives the three founders of RTFKT, it’s that the digital signifiers we use to broadcast our identities, tastes, social status and other traits are just as important as the physical ones.
“The vision has always been that in the future all your digital possessions will be a lot more valuable to you than your physical possessions, and that means both economically and emotionally,” Benoit Pagotto (RTFKT) said.
The point is to make all releases going forward interoperable, meaning they can be worn by a CloneX, displayed in the space pod or used in some other way with previous RTFKT items. Vasilev (RTFKT) said the next phase they’re moving into is “building full ecosystems and different units where everything will interlink.”
In doing so, RTFKT allows its fans to combine its products in different ways, involving them in building its mini-universe. Items like the Nike CryptoKicks are also AR-enabled, so parts of that universe can be overlaid on the real world.