1/ My upcoming release 'Processed Feed' is a series comprising 16 unique artworks.
Each piece is a 1/1 NFT featuring an audiovisual interpolation created to explore the various elements that consistently contribute to my creative process, using gems as visual metaphors and
Can’t really endorse a memecoin but can certainly endorse a meme. Have listened to
@Slerfsol
and others in the twitter space for over 18 hours just to gain some perspective on the social element of this colossal fuck up.
While reparations are underway, I still think it’s cool
🧵Through this thread, I intend on archiving as much as possible about Refik Anadol Studio [RAS] in the Web3.0 space and beyond, for those who haven’t bathed in context over years like the rest of us.
Refik Anadol is a Los Angeles-based media artist hailing from Istanbul,
1. “Butterfly Bubble” is an evolving art collection of 33 1/1 pixel artworks I created to articulate our impervious notions that result in bubbles that never pop, but simply evolve by the power of our
#conviction
.
offers more context.
Diversity without disagreeability is a myth.
Over the past year in the
@artblocks_io
ecosystem, I’ve championed some art and artists regardless of the market’s opinion.
We’re operating within a microcosm at the moment. For generative art to be consumed and appreciated beyond
Show me yer dragons
I’ll be picking out the first 5 mints from outputs shared on Twitter.
🐉 Log in or sign up to Verse.
🐉 Create composites on the Verse composite builder (link at top of my profile).
🐉 I will pick my top 5 on Mon 21st Aug at noon ET.
🐉 Chosen works will be
I hear your reasons to resist projects like
@tinydinosnft
based on things that seem sensible because seemingly sensible people said them.
See what we’ve got going on. You might not share the same sensibilities as those people.
Witness us
#tinydinos
Feels very cool to see my timeline filled with chatter about
@KZ_LAB_E
‘s latest collection called Memories of Digital Data. Probably a good reminder for people to view artists’ body of work as a whole.
Kazu and
@patterndotco
‘s approach to generative colour is interesting
I can't believe how a BIG TECH YOUTUBER can do this. No one should be able to get away with this.
Most of our front-end code base & product renders were copied by
@Layers_shop
, the latest venture of
@tech_burner
.
Here's a thread with screenshots & proof👇🔥
Refik Anadol Studio
Thread:
#2
Continuing where I left of, this second thread will explore other NFT collections released by RAS.
Index:
1a] The Exposition: Andy Murray x Wimbledon (Introduction),
1b] The Exposition: Andy Murray x Wimbledon (Intention & Execution),
1c] The
🧵Through this thread, I intend on archiving as much as possible about Refik Anadol Studio [RAS] in the Web3.0 space and beyond, for those who haven’t bathed in context over years like the rest of us.
Refik Anadol is a Los Angeles-based media artist hailing from Istanbul,
1st look at two Voyagers flying together.
Two separate wallets connected using their assets in a live multiplayer experience.
More multiplayer peeks throughout the weekend - including a horde mode multiplayer demo!
Launch this upcoming week.
//1// In light of
@glitch_life
’s new release today, called ‘Bubble’ with
@wildxyz
, I will be raffling a mint among the collectors of Butterfly Bubble.
Santiago’s one of the artists whose head and heart have consistently been in the right place despite the pendulous swings this
I can't believe how a BIG TECH YOUTUBER can do this. No one should be able to get away with this.
Most of our front-end code base & product renders were copied by
@Layers_shop
, the latest venture of
@tech_burner
.
Here's a thread with screenshots & proof👇🔥
The unfuckwithable nature of this man’s collectability resonates with many at
@MadRabbitsRC
This is a tireless shill for me thanks to the impeccable team and committed community we’ve got here.
At this point I’m completely okay with people sleeping on this project cause that leaves more for us hahahaha
@MadRabbitsRC
will leave no stone unturned.
If you’re sincerely keen, maybe you could hop into the burrows and see what’s up:
#MRRC
#MRHS
#BP
2] Refik Anadol Studio [RAS]:
Founded by Refik in 2014, it is renowned for creating some of the best immersive media art that is suitable for the public, ie, anyone from any age and any background. They have shown their work in over 50 cities across 6 contents and to millions of
I will be raffling this I'm Feeling Lucky
#25
by
@mayaonthenet
released on
@verse_works
among the collectors of my works namely 'Butterfly Bubble' and 'Processed Feed' on New Year's Eve.
Its been a great year building some real significant relationships and further enhancing
8c] Collection: Winds of Yawanawá, 2023 (Underlying artwork):
Some visual artworks of the young Yawanawá artists Nawashahu and Mukashahu which were animated with a motion that wind data interpretations were transformed into.
8a] Collection: Winds of Yawanawá, 2023 (Introduction):
The most recent collection released by RAS in collaboration with the Yawanawá Tribe of the Amazon rainforest is called ‘Winds of Yawanawá’.
It’s is a generative collection of a 1000 unique data paintings, in 4K resolution,
@MuseumModernArt
@FeralFile
10] Interval
Due to space and time constraints I’m ending this thread here but will post another that covers other NFT collections by RAS in the coming days. Already working on it!
If you’ve read through the entire thread and reached here, I’m guessing you might have similar
15th November marking my 28th birthday, I decided to raffle a painting called ‘You and Me’ from my ongoing series called ‘Patients of Time’ painted on vinyls, among collectors of ‘Butterfly Bubble’ in the spirit of celebrating temporality.
Show me yer dragons
I’ll be picking out the first 5 mints from outputs shared on Twitter.
🐉 Log in or sign up to Verse.
🐉 Create composites on the Verse composite builder (link at top of my profile).
🐉 I will pick my top 5 on Mon 21st Aug at noon ET.
🐉 Chosen works will be
Here are four pieces and angles that particularly stood out for me from
@harmvddorpel
’s collection.
I personally find the work an expression of participation, confrontation and empathy.
Each piece depicts the same movement but other form factors give them all a unique
1/ Join
@harmvddorpel
,
@fingerprintsdao
,
@MercedesBenzNXT
and JPG to celebrate Maschine, Harm’s latest collection. We’re giving away 3 Maschine NFTs to the best submissions to the contest! How to participate? Read on!
While the barrier to entry for creating a great composite is very low, the quest for perfect composites and black / white dragons is not for the faint-hearted.
‘Quasi Dragon Studies’ by
@harvey_rayner
Work that makes you think 🫠
8b] Collection: Winds of Yawanawá, 2023 (Process):
A data set of wind and gust speed, as well as temperature, precipitation and air pressure collected from real time API air sensors placed in Aldeia Sagrada (the tribe’s sacred village) for a month constitutes the first step of
@YBayc
An Edition of 18 showing an Mfer frame made using 420 Rubik’s cubes!
‘The King
#Mfer
Cubed!’ By
@hariology
(Mfer has been working his phd in ocean engineering in the US while he spends hours on top of that practising his art)
#NFTCommunity
#nft
R A S x N Y C
Machine Hallucinations NYC (burned).
A video Refik shared in the server regarding the burn mechanics and potential outputs earlier today. More teasers to come!
@refikanadol
we're awaiting this release eagerly!
Huge thanks to everyone at
*:・ Are you feeling lucky? ☆
One
@mayaonthenet
𝙄'𝙢 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 edition will be gifted to an extra lucky individual.
To participate, you must first find yourself:
* Explore the algorithm (link below)
* Quote this post with output image that you feel is
Platforms looking to be 'inclusive' in their decisions around drop mechanics for art releases should probably open their eyes wide enough and see what motivates people most.
'Decentralization' is more an excuse for comfort and insulating yourself of responsibilities at this
@NischalShetty
Also maybe cause you’re keeping 60% of the transaction fee for eg. on Ethereum transactions. 0.02 ETH (0.008Eth for the blockchain and 0.012Eth for the exchange). That’s considerably high compared to thieves like Gemini lol.
Index for thread
#1
:
1] Refik’s interview with
@_DigitalFUTURES
giving a succinct overview of all things RAS,
2] Refik Anadol Studio (RAS),
3] Inspiration,
4] Creation (Tools, Ideation, Definition, Collaboration, Innovation, Execution),
5a] Combination (Art 🤝
⚠️All kinds of scams are and will continue to go down in the NFT space because it’s still riddled with technobabble that most of us illiterate creatives are unaware of. Please do your 20 ETH portfolio a favour and get a 0.1 ETH hardware wallet with a 0.2 ETH cost to secure assets
@PawelDudko
is an extremely interesting artist whose concepts and skills seem naturally aligned. Here's a brief discussion with Brett from
@trygamma
you can check out
Pawel has plans to make his Mycelioid Prints a complete series eventually, but for now is making time to get outside, see friends, hike, and be at one with nature to recharge is creative self and to create his best work. Listen to our entire conversation with Pawel below:
I’m surprised we haven’t seen any novel architectural design ideas being tokenized as NFTs where the concept sketches are made available and the unlockable features / content contains views and working drawings.
3 years hence people are still wondering what animal pfp to get.
I appreciate you guys for saying it like it is
@zerobeta
@_samspike_
The echo chamber among people wanting to celebrate a ‘victory for the space ffs’ (when they’re really just wishing it traps some exit liquidity), those who can’t have an original thought / interest and those
4] Creation (Tools, Ideation, Definition, Collaboration, Innovation, Execution):
Refik shares that collective memories, archives, light, architecture, generative AI algorithms, software, hardware, code, sound, and, more recently, scent are all key elements in the creation
3] Inspiration:
Refik speaks of how in a lecture in 2008, him, a musician and a computer science student, dug deeper into applications of pure data.
It was the first time Refik conceptualised what went on to be a signature format of work of his called ‘data paintings’ and then
- There are people who can’t afford drinking water
- There are people who can’t afford mineral water
- There are people who can’t afford sparkling water
- There are people who shampoo their hair with mineral water
- There are people who own natural sources of water
I think
@MuseumModernArt
@FeralFile
9f] ‘Unsupervised’, 2022-2023 (Personal View):
When I first found out about the collection, I was a bit perplexed because on the one hand, we create art as though they’re layers to our predecessors’ work, regardless of how original we believe it to be. On the other, we seek
This thread (and it’s next part) is for those who think
@refikanadol
and his studio’s ascent was rapid and / or unwarranted.
It’s one thing to hold onto the subjectivity-crutch and a whole other to be talking out of your ass about things you haven’t looked up, to validate vile
🧵Through this thread, I intend on archiving as much as possible about Refik Anadol Studio [RAS] in the Web3.0 space and beyond, for those who haven’t bathed in context over years like the rest of us.
Refik Anadol is a Los Angeles-based media artist hailing from Istanbul,
1] Please check out this video from a great channel called DigitalFutures (
@_DigitalFUTURES
) to learn more about Refik and the studio within 25 minutes from Refik himself.
I will share a few sections of it to drive a few points.
The channel hosts a ton
6] View on Public Art and Experiential NFTS
RAS has a massive footprint IRL with all its shows and immersive experiences. A great thing about the work is that it’s always publicly available to consume. The blockchain is a similar public landscape in that sense, where people
1/ My upcoming release 'Processed Feed' is a series comprising 16 unique artworks.
Each piece is a 1/1 NFT featuring an audiovisual interpolation created to explore the various elements that consistently contribute to my creative process, using gems as visual metaphors and
@voxodeus
and
@MadRabbitsRC
will probably be the only collectibles project that I’ll be truly interested in long term. Collectible art is a consequence of the artist and community.
@NFSTEVE6313
has articulated key features of this project really well here. Take a look.
#nft
#pfp
GIVEAWAY TIME:
@voxodeus
unrevealed mint! Read on for how to be entered! Strap in for some Alpha on why I'm bullish on Voxodeus and believe it will be a mainstay for years. As always NFA and disclaimer this is my biggest bag. Now to the fun stuff...
Mass is my new series coming to Ethereum on 15th May. 300 on-chain dynamically changing 3D artworks. Mass is a shared 3D space that lives on the blockchain. Everyone shares the same space, but it appears differently to each viewer and evolves in unexpected ways over time
@itsd3von
@tinydinosnft
@BoredApeYC
I would, to be honest.
It’s nice to be under the Yuga umbrella but it’s not entirely bad to be building your own. I’m sure Apple would’ve loved to be bought up by their overlords at some point but longevity serves those that are robust and I see there’s many early adopters here.
Just received this beautiful memory from
@drew_amato
I feel bloody privileged 🙏🏼
It’s winter all right!
This one’s finding its way to the vault.
#drewamato
#NFT
#MRRC
I'm hosting “Weekly NFT Exhibition (Swift)” with the club ‘NFT Ecosystem (Databank)’ on Saturday, 17 Apr at 10:30 PM IST on
@joinclubhouse
. Join us!
It will be a clocked event with 5 mins per artist.
1 pm EDT / 6pm GMT
#nftart
#nftartist
#nftcollectors
7] The Factor System (Allowlisting for NFTs):
In an attempt to conduct fair and objective allowlisting that rewards both, big and small collectors & supporters appropriately, RAS developed ‘The Factor System’ to create clusters of collectors into various presale groups with
Any cultural movement has always benefited from a lot of imperceptible moves made by silent entities to help bridge gaps across the ecosystem in a sort of ‘IYKYK’ manner. Patrons have an eye for this and have encouraged these silent patrons’ ability to make things happen.
It
“growth”
Here’s one of the first pieces I made as an artist while transitioning out of architecture design.
The iterative process of art showed me my path back when I felt most lost.
This was made for a friend who wished to thank his parents.
#nftart
#painting
#cryptoart
#art
People are burning themselves out so hard that when it finally comes to it, they prefer casual art that offers them catharsis over truly innovative work.
Their choice and everything, but it’s still hilarious from where I’m looking.
@MuseumModernArt
@FeralFile
9d] ‘Unsupervised’, 2022-2023 (Data Universe & 1/5000 NFT Burn Mechanics):
“Unsupervised — Data Universe — MoMA” is a global AI data painting that simulates a latent walk among the museum’s digitized collection.
RAS used MoMA archives to construct the seven dimensions of the
@MuseumModernArt
@FeralFile
9b] ‘Unsupervised’, 2022-2023 (Data sourcing and curation):
The Unsupervised NFT Collection emerges through processing 138,151 pieces of metadata from the vast collection of The Museum of Modern Art as ‘dreamed’ by the machine.
Using ‘StyleGAN2 with adaptive discriminator
Pawel is one of the best there is in the Chroma Cavalry.
Been a great experience witnessing him and his work over the last couple of years.
Dude's a Ray-bender.
GM Fam! 🧡
An early supporter of my art —
@snoozedsneeze
generously offered a RayStone to raffle among appreciators of my artwork via twitter.
You must quote this post with a message that shares what you love most about my art or what stands out best about it along with a
A lot of your favourite anonymous artists' 'aura' might just be the equivalent of them holding their breath underwater. Reality is a faucet for most, including these laconic sexy internet figures.
Quit the deaf worship and explore their practice before you shill their God-status.