PARDON OUR DUST, the first solo exhibition of LA TURBO AVEDON in Vienna, is opening in two days.

La Turbo Avedon is an avatar, artist, and curator who was born in 2008/09 in the metaverse of the collective online computer game Second Life. The non-binary virtual character deliberately ignores the lack of real physicality and instead rather emphasizes the potentials of non-physical and fluid identities. In digital sculptures, photographs, and videos, La Turbo Avedon assimilates elements from video game environments as well as quotes from the current web culture and critically addresses the medium of the internet and its technological and economic developments.

For the MAK, La Turbo Avedon developed a new digital installation—a virtual simulation and narration—in which La Turbo Avedon’s avatar-self accompanies visitors through different landscapes and spaces of the virtual world.

Wed, 22.6.2022—Sun, 25.9.2022
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (Austria).

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Lacoste is entering the Metaverse with the first NFT project.

The brand tries to create a new eco system through their UNDW3 website and the new Discord server.

Lacoste UNDW3 experience (NFT) can be minted now. The total supply is 11212, which is not the accidental number. l1212 is the name of the first ever created polo by Rene Lacoste in 1933. Therefore, 11212 is the number of experiences that can be delivered. Minting price: 0.08Ξ

Members of Lacoste UNDW3 community are promised to gain access to exclusive benefits, events, digital and physical products created by the community and for the community.

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Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson is building a free metaverse called Lamina1.

The project describes itself as a free metaverse aimed at helping get artists and other value creators paid properly for their work, helping the environment (Lamina1 will be provably carbon negative), and seeing a truly Open Metaverse get built instead of seeing the Metaverse vision co-opted by monopolies.

In an interview with Decrypt, Stephenson and Lamina1 co-founder Peter Vessenes, a crypto pioneer and co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, elaborated a bit on the project.

Lamina1 is a purpose-built blockchain for building the open metaverse, Vessenes explained. We're going to have all the facilities of a full layer one [blockchain] to help support and encourage the creators who want to build with us. That is my and Neal's strategy—align everything around getting the best thing built and getting everybody all the tools they need to build what they want.

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Three days before NFT ART DAY ZRH.

And here are the people we will have a chance to meet there:
Kevin Abosch,
Refik Anadol,
Georg Bak| head of Art Department at Tokengate,
Erick Calderon (Snowfro) | founder of ArtBlocks,
Primavera De Filippi | research director at the National Center of Scientific Research,
Alex Estorick | Editor-in-Chief at Right Click Save,
Sarah Friend,
Jonathan Ledgard | writer and technologist,
Anika Meier | author and curator,
Hans Ulrich Obrist | artistic director Serpentine Galleries,
Penny Rafferty | writer, critic, visual theorist,
Margit Rosen | head of the department Collection, Archives and Research at the ZKM & Center for Art and Media,
Laurent Sauveur | director Foundation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (FICRC),
Kenny Schachter | artist, curator, lecturer, writer,
Paul Seidler (terra0),
Travess Smalley,
Alfred Weidinger | managing director OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH
Patrick Foret, CEO Aorist

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The group exhibition WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age is now open in Düsseldorf.

It is curated by starcurator Hans Ulrich Obrist and will run untill December 10 2023.

WORLDBUILDING examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art with a journey through various ways in which artists have interacted with video games and made them into an art form. In the words of the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist: “In 2021 2.8 billion people—almost a third of the world’s population—played video games, making a niche pastime into the biggest mass phenomenon of our time. Video games are to the twenty-first century what movies were to the twentieth century and novels to the nineteenth century.”

From single-channel video works to site-specific, immersive, and interactive environments, WORLDBUILDING encompasses over thirty artworks from the mid-1990s to the present.

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Cover image: Jacolby Satterwhite, We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020.

Next level for NFT profile pictures is on it's way and it seems to bring a nice storyline.

The web3 multimedia sci-fi project Runner, co-created with Metaversal,
will exist as a comic book, an NFT profile picture project, possibly a video game, and eventually a TV show under Unkeless’ production company Clubhouse Pictures.

“While our central story is focusing on a few characters, it was a natural extension to look at PFPs as a way to really start creating specific identities within our world,” Unkeless said of creating NFTs. 

The creators of Runner are experienced Hollywood creatives putting their names on the line.
At the end of the day, they’re looking to disrupt what it means to tell a story in the internet age.

“We knew we wanted to create a world where 10,000 stories could be told,” Anderson said of the project. “We saw the comic book as a way to help guide people into the story […] and then use that story as a basis myth for everyone in the community to latch onto.”

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The E.A.T. collaborates with Tokengate on presenting NFT ART DAY ZRH - the first major conference on NFTs and the metaverse held in Switzerland.

The conference focuses on the relationship between art and NFTs, the innovation of blockchain technology, historical digital art dating since 1950s, market performance, and other components of this complex ecosystem.

NFT ART DAY ZRH aims to spotlight crypto art within the wider realm of the history of digital art whilst building bridges with the art world.

The inaugural NFT ART DAY ZRH conference will take place on Sunday, 12th of June at the Kunsthaus Zürich in the context of Zurich Art Weekend and prior to the opening of Art Basel.

Event is available In-Person, as well as Online.

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CHANEL MAKE THEIR FIRST METAVERSE MOVE FOR VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE LE BAL DE PARIS.

Chanel have been quietly carving out their own space in digital fashion as a main sponsor for Le Bal de Paris, a Blanca Li production currently on show at the Barbican in London.

Choreographed by Blanca Li, Le Bal de Paris is a virtual experience encompassing music and dance, with members of the public playing an active part in the performance alongside two principal dancers, all dressed in Chanel.

Dance is central to the experience, as attendees wearing VR headsets and body-tracking sensors find themselves transformed into characters, actively exploring a series of fantastical virtual worlds whilst following a love story acted by the Blanca Li Dance Company.

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