IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR ARTWRLD COLLECTORS
Following the third web smart contract security vulnerability at the end of last year new collections were minted and airdropped to collectors of Out-Game Flowers, Land Sea and Sky and Vs.
Below you'll find all the official contracts
Announcing! John F. Simon Jr.'s ComplexCity, a collection of generative artworks updated from his seminal software media artwork, and ode to New York City, ComplexCity (2000).
Releasing November 9:
@Every_Icon
@NatoThompson
@ceoofparties
An ode to New York, John F. Simon Jr.’s ComplexCity is often described as one of his most autobiographical works.
Abstracted elevators, frenetic intersections, autonomous flocks of birds, a city skyline in constant flux…
@Every_Icon
@NatoThompson
@ceoofparties
🎺SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:
GIVEAWAY: We’re giving away one artwork from our forthcoming ComplexCity drop with John F. Simon Jr. (
@Every_Icon
). To enter, simply quote retweet this thread.
Entries close 11/3 EOD
Winner announced 11/6
Artwrld is thrilled to present Land Sea and Sky, our upcoming collection with seminal digital media artists Jennifer & Kevin McCoy (
@mccoyspace
). This is their debut collaboration with an NFT platform following the sale of the first-ever NFT, minted by Kevin McCoy in 2014.
Land Sea and Sky by
@JennMcCoySpace
and
@mccoyspace
has officially sold out. A huge congratulations to the McCoys and thank you to everyone who collected a work from the collection. ⛰️🌊🌞
ComplexCity (2000/2023) by John F. Simon, Jr. is now capped at a collection size of 256. Thank you to all of the collectors who supported our mint last week. We are looking forward to seeing the final mints from the collection!
Minting is live here:
A brand new Traffic scenario minted by
@bryanbrinkman
shifts from day to night.
Don't forget that the interactivity with this scenario is controlling the traffic flow by adding or reducing commuters by clicking on the right and left of the image. Gn Gn.
@Every_Icon
👋 we’re Artwrld, an organization dedicated to working with world-class artists to produce compelling NFT-based projects that benefit the nonprofits they love.
𝔽𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡 𝕤𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟚
It’s an exciting moment to see the projects we present in digital space show up in the physical world.
@jillmagid
’s Out-Game Flowers on the March cover of
@artinamerica
. This is the first time an NFT has graced their cover and the publication’s first-ever animated cover.
A Loss for Words, the first NFT collection by artist & filmmaker Shirin Neshat, officially drops on 10/17 ↴
The works in this series exist in the liminal space between still & moving images, seamlessly merging video, hand-drawn calligraphy and animation.
We are delighted to share that the minting for ComplexCity (2000/2023) is now complete.
Thanks to everyone who supported and collected this past week, AND a huge congratulations to John F. Simon, Jr. !
@Every_Icon
@ceoofparties
@NatoThompson
@ArtBlocksEngine
1/ We are excited to share that Out-Game Flowers by
@JillMagid
is on the cover of
@ArtinAmerica
.
It's the first time an NFT has been selected for their cover image, and it's also their first-ever animated cover feature.
Congrats to Jill and to all OGF collectors 🎉💐🎉
"Coding is creative writing because programming languages are universal. Each programmer chooses how they structure data, implement algorithms, and represent the results. Anything that can be computed can be written in code." -
@Every_Icon
ComplexCity
#25
@pablorfraile
For a limited time, we're offering collectors the chance to acquire a set of all six scenarios from John F. Simon Jr.'s ComplexCity (2000/2023).
🏙️
Pre-sale closes 11/6 at 6 PM ET.
Artworks airdropped 11/9 ✨
@Every_Icon
@NatoThompson
@ceoofparties
🎺SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:
GIVEAWAY: We’re giving away one artwork from our forthcoming ComplexCity drop with John F. Simon Jr. (
@Every_Icon
). To enter, simply quote retweet this thread.
Entries close 11/3 EOD
Winner announced 11/6
Artwrld is pleased to announce the acquisition of
@JillMagid
's Hand-Hacked Bouquet 1 from her upcoming collection Out-Game Flowers by
@CentrePompidou
for its permanent collection.
Le Centre Pompidou fait l’acquisition d’un ensemble d’œuvres traitant des relations entre blockchain et création artistique, dont ses premiers NFT ! 👾
Ce sont 18 projets de 13 artistes français et internationaux qui entrent en collection.
Plus d'infos 👉
A classic ComplexCity scenario minted by
@rudyadler
shifts from night to morning. Each artwork will transform in 2 minute intervals and has unique interactivity. Click around and find out.
1/ Tomorrow’s the day. Allowlist minting for
@JillMagid
’s genesis NFT collection, Out-Game Flowers officially opens tomorrow at 12 PM EST on Artwrld’s website.
Artwrld is pleased to present Vs., a genesis NFT collection by world-renowned artist Paul Pfeiffer (
@ppfeiffer11
). Vs. transports the viewer to the boxing ring and highlights found footage from two highly anticipated boxing matches featuring world champion Manny Pacquiao.
Minting for Land Sea and Sky is officially live on our website !
Artwrld collectors have automatic access to the drop as of 11 AM ET and allowlist minting opens at 12 PM ET.
Happy minting!
"The art that
@FingerprintsDAO
collects is art that address blockchain as a social technology. Sometimes the best way to use something as the artistic subject is to also use it as the medium."—
@mitchellfchan
Gm 🏙️
Here is a new mint of the Chelsea scenario now residing in the
@pixelpete
art collection! We clicked through a few compositions and then let it run through a cycle from the day to the evening. What do you think?
@Every_Icon
@ArtBlocksEngine
📰 Important Information about our upcoming release with John F. Simon Jr. (
@Every_Icon
)
Mint date: November 9
12 PM ET | Artwrld Collectors sale
1 PM ET | Public Sale
Mint Price: .2 ETH Throughout
Project site:
Curated by
@NatoThompson
and
Great write-up on
@jillmagid
's collection Out-Game Flowers in
@artnet
"Though her NFTs look like straightforward bouquets, they represent something more: a convergence of multiple markets—those of videos games, blockchain art, and real-world flowers."
These components reappear throughout JFSj's (
@Every_Icon
) collection, ComplexCity (2000/2023), in a set of six possible templates with a nearly infinite (think billions) number of possible outputs.
Releasing Nov 9:
A unique noir output from ComplexCity (2000/2023) by
@Every_Icon
released in partnership with
@ArtBlocksEngine
.
35 mints remain 🌃
You can still collect artworks here:
Thanks for all the support everyone!
Gn gn 🤍
We’d like to congratulate
@JennMcCoySpace
and
@mccoyspace
on their inclusion in
@nftnow
’s NFT100 list and their recognition as one of the 100 most influential creators in the web3 space over the past year.
Massive thanks to
@nftnow
and congratulations to everyone recognized 💥
1/One of the best parts of presenting projects with great artists on the blockchain is getting to connect and build community with other great artists and collectors in this space.
A huge thank you to the
@RtClick_Save
team and
@AlexEstorick
for their support of this project and the work that they do to bring forward critical conversations around generative art 🏙️
“I’m happy that the early work can now be documented on-chain and displayed as working code in a distributed and public way.”
@Every_Icon
on ComplexCity (2000/2023) with
@artw__rld
How Artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s First Joint NFT Series Reimagines American Landscapes With A.I. via
@artnet
by
@EnglishBlase
is now live.
"The wildernesses they present are stunning and unsettling in equal measure."
7/ To create each work, Pfeiffer manually erased the opponent from every frame. The work pictured here is sampled from Pacquiao’s infamous match against Jeff Horn. Previews of the work featuring found footage of Pacquiao against an invisible Floyd Mayweather coming next week.
At long last it's minting day for Land Sea and Sky !
Artwrld collectors have automatic access to the drop as of 11 AM ET and allowlist minting opens at 12 PM ET.
To mint visit our website here:
“This work is about concealing & letting go,” Neshat explains [...] This is what the Iranian people have learned to deal with: the absence of freedom of expression means finding ways of speaking without really opening your mouth.”
#ShirinNeshat
via
@wmag
Another first look at one of the short-form collage works from
@JennMcCoySpace
&
@mccoyspace
's upcoming collection, Land Sea and Sky, presented and commissioned by Artwrld.
Allowlist open now:
"When you see the image of a face being punched in slow motion and you see the skin ripple and the spit fly. It doesn't speak of technology. It speaks of the body and it speaks of intimacy. It's something you relate to on a human level as something uncanny, a ghost"
Tomorrow morning we are officially announcing our new project🏙️who is going to tune in for our conversation with John F. Simon Jr. (
@Every_Icon
), Nato Thompson (
@NatoThompson
) and Cody Edison (
@ceoofparties
) ?
Beep beep! First sneak peek!
The accumulator is one of seven sections in John F. Simon Jr.'s new collection. It acts as an odometer for the artworks and their connection to the outside world. The center pendulum marks the passage of time and advances the squares on the rings
Thank to you everyone who has minted collage work from Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Land Sea and Sky.
Just over 12 hours left in the allowlist phase to mint before the public sale starts at 12PM ET tomorrow.
Mint here:
GN 🌬️✨🏔️
9/ Traffic:
"A diagrammatic simulation of NYC street and avenue traffic. Small rectangles are 'cars' of various colors, they start and stop at the intersections. Variables include car color, car speed, number of cars, block lengths, block heights, and number of blocks."
Questions about ComplexCity?
Join us for a collectors preview with John F. Simon Jr in collaboration with
@collectors_xyz
this coming Monday, November 6 at 4 PM ET.
You'll have a chance to preview outputs, colorways and the unique interactivity of every component.
Set a
🛎️🛎️🛎️ UPCOMING: Tomorrow, the great
@mitchellfchan
will be joining
@NatoThompson
for our weekly LTDA to talk sporting culture and spectacle in anticipation of our forthcoming collection, Vs., with artist
@ppfeiffer11
Join us:
artwrld, allowlist minting for
@neknelworld
and
@_keiken
’s_ Wisdom Vessels is now live on
→ 1,111 dynamic, webGL based generative NFTs and all producers of $WISDOM ERC20
A super-bloom in digital form:
11C-31Land-40Mountains-37Sea-64Sky, 2023 by
@jennmccoyspace
and
@mccoyspace
from their recent collection with Artwrld, Land Sea and Sky.
"Land Sea and Sky by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy confronts the viewer with a recognizable jumbled environment; a dizzying array of disparate, jarring, familiar and synthetic images sutured together."
ComplexCity
#66
(Buildings Scenario)
Congratulations to
@digitalcoleman
- winner of our giveaway 💜
As you click through, the city skyline will continue to shuffle. An endless city. A changing city. A ComplexCity.
@Every_Icon
♾
We are less than two days away from the presale of Land Sea and Sky by
@JennMcCoySpace
&
@mccoyspace
!
If you are an Artwrld collector or have access to the allowlist you will mint here on Wednesday :
Happy minting!
Artwrld is pleased to present The Orders, an NFT collection by seminal video artist
@BrambillaStudio
. An excavation of the iconography of Freemasonry, The Orders transports the often mystical material culture of a secret society into the digital and public realm of web3.
The allowlist for
@ahmet__ogut
's Monuments of the Disclosed is now open! Register, and you could be among the first to mint from this small collection of only 99 unique works:
What a week it's been!
@JennMcCoySpace
and
@mccoyspace
's Land Sea and Sky sold out yesterday. Thanks to every one who minted a work from this historic collection.
What pieces caught your eye?
Here's one minted by collector
@xtzgrumble
with the palette of a Martian desert.
It's ComplexCity release week! Our final online preview with John F. Simon Jr. (
@Every_Icon
) will take place at 1PM PT. You can message us for a link to attend or visit the link tree in our bio for more info 🏙️
Questions about ComplexCity?
Join us for a collectors preview with John F. Simon Jr in collaboration with
@collectors_xyz
this coming Monday, November 6 at 4 PM ET.
You'll have a chance to preview outputs, colorways and the unique interactivity of every component.
Set a
Let's Talk Digital Alternatives with
@NatoThompson
returns with artist, hacker, and writer
@rheaplex
. Her work places technology + culture in mutual interrogation to produce new ways of seeing the world as it unfolds around us.
→
That was fast - the small hand-hacked bouquets from Jill Magid's genesis NFT collection are officially SOLD OUT.
Congrats to all of the collectors and to
@JillMagid
!
We will be hosting an AMA with John F. Simon Jr. and curators Nato Thompson and Cody Edison this Thursday, November 9 live during the mint starting at 12 PM ET.
Join us and share your thoughts, questions, and collected works:
@Every_Icon
@NatoThompson
UPCOMING: This Thursday Artwrld co-founder
@NatoThompson
will be hosting artist Burak Arikan (
@arikan
) and our friends over at
@______jpg______
for an LTDA conversation about his forthcoming project, Social Contracts.
Join us on 4/27 at 1 PM ET:
Folks in Los Angeles: Join us for a panel conversation with Artwrld co-founder
@joshgoldblum
,
@patrickamadon
, and
@LadyCactoid
on Thursday, February 2 at the Secret Walls HQ in Venice. Co-sponsored by
@QuantumNFT
🔥
NFTS - Fad, Fraud, or Future
RSVP:
"What draws me to explore the loop is the hypnotic quality of this simple form. There’s something irresistible and transfixing about looped, repeated images—also repeated sounds, words, phrases, etc. It’s something primal and intuitive, like a moth to the flame."
Aaand it's our birthday! What a year it's been since we launched our platform in July of 2022.
We are so grateful for the community we've built and found in this space and we look forward to what's ahead.
1/ THE CLASSIC
Compositionally the most similar to the original ComplexCity (2000), this scenario contains all nine possible components from the bustling traffic to the shifting city skyline to the central chip and spinner that runs the city.
Learn more about the American artist
@JillMagid
whose genesis NFT collection Out-Game Flowers will be dropping on Artwrld's platform on Valentine's Day, February 14. Allowlist open now:
/// A Thread ///
✨🍰 SLICE GIVEAWAY 🍰✨
It’s true—a fresh
#FestivalofGratitude
slice could be coming to your wallet! Here’s how to enter:
1. follow
@artw__rld
on Twitter
2. tag a friend below ↴
3. retweet this tweet
enter by 8/19 5pm ET; 1 entry per user
💥
A look inside the world of seminal video artist
@BrambillaStudio
and his forthcoming collection with Artwrld, The Orders.
The first phase of the collection, Entered Apprentice, will be released on Artwrld's website tomorrow, September 19 at 12 PM ET.
2/THE CHELSEA
Named for cultural sprawl on the west side of Manhattan, this composition redistributes the components into neat grids that vary in their horizontal and vertical orientation.
TOMORROW 12PM EST🎙️
We are announcing and sharing more details about Artwrld's next collection with artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (
@mccoyspace
).
You can set a reminder and tune in here:
Missed out on our latest drop? Artwrld’s next collection with artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy will be announcing on March 7.
To kick off the announcement,
@mccoyspace
will be joining Artwrld’s
@NatoThompson
for an LTDA about their work and practice.
And we're live 💥
Presale Suites for
@BrambillaStudio
's The Orders are officially minting on our website. Comprised of 9 Apprentice Objects and 1 Fellow Craft Still Life, mint yours while supplies last:
Out-Game Flowers by
@JillMagid
on the cover of
@ArtinAmerica
in the
@whitneymuseum
shop. Make sure to pick up a copy of the magazine with the first nft ever featured on its cover 💐
Paul Pfeiffer's genesis NFT collection, VS., dropping on Artwrld’s platform on June 7.
Comprised of found footage from two infamous Manny Pacquiao boxing matches, we’re excited to share some previews over the coming days from fight one: Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn.
Reposting our 🧵highlighting some of
@JennMcCoySpace
and
@mccoyspace
's most seminal works through out their 30 years of collaboration (including of course minting the first NFT) in anticipation of our AMA on Monday.
Set a reminder and tune in here :
The McCoys’ work extends from film and video to installation and generative software that uses blockchain technology to create long-term ecosystems for images to live, die, and evolve.