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This year for my birthday I decided to start a new tradition to break my birthday curse once and for all in which I create an open call for art to put together a Metaverse gallery and party. The theme of this open call I decided should be centered around the astrological themes of my birthday ~ Cusp of Rebirth.
Pisces is the last sign of the Zodiac, and Aries the first, so the transition period of March 17th - 23rd is referred to as the Cusp of Rebirth. All Zodiac signs inbetweens have cusps. Since my birthday is the 23rd, the last day of the cusp, making this the theme of an annual digital art exhibition seems like a no brainer, especially with the current zeitgeist being that we are in a digital renaissance.
There is a grand total of 90 artworks features in this gallery art from every artist who submitted. There is 71 in the outer ring and 19 in the inner ring. I decided on using the colosseum byjackcc1 on sketchfab and adjusted it to be black stone to fit my aesthetics more as the gallery base model, but in large scale in which I used the same model repeatedly to create a slightly more complex structure. Then to carve out the gallery space I added a glass floor about 1/2 up, so you can see the arches, water, trees, and terrain below, along with a giant dance floor in the middle.
This dance floor being above the glass floor is a reference to Glass Ceiling Disco an earlier work by me on the now closed Known Origin and gifted to Patrick Amadon:
https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0xabb3738f04dc2ec20f4ae4462c3d069d02ae045b/6529000
The reason for the scope and scale of this build is because I didn't want to create another slideshow of art displayed on one screen or a small, jammed metaverse gallery. I wanted the space to feel monumental, timeless, and enduring, and therefore the art within it monumental, timelsss, and enduring. The implication of being on the outer or inner oval placement has no personal ties, like I do no consider artists on the outer or inner circles closers or farther form me in relationship, but it is a matter of function. I wanted the outer large oval to be filled first, most stills or gifs, with the video art being mostly on the inner oval in which they are spaced out farther. This is to be less taxing on system resources, since there is a clipping buffer where they don't all load at once.
I wanted to make sure each artwork had equal space and weight, which is easy in an oval layout. There is no start or end, just a continuous cycle of art, like the astrological wheel. A colosseum is usually associated with more violent entertainments, but who is to say it can't be used for an art show and dance floor to bring people together in an exhcange of ideas in a relatively peaceful manner. This is one aspect of art and artist's role in civilization, so it's not baseline anythign radical or new. What is radical and new is the technology to, in the span of less than a month, bring artists from around the world together and create a space any of us who have internet can join together and enjoy.
This is the intentions and ideal of the metaverse, no geolocking, and people's voices coming together in an expansive and infinite space and anyone with access to the tech being able to participate.
Rebirth is not an easy process. Somethings need to be let go and recycled to make space and resources for new growth. I think a core duty of artists is to preserve their respective cultures during times of turmoil along with being advocates and defenders of free speech, which is the cornerstone of a free society.
As part of this exhibition, I have created an easy to reference catalogue of artworks and artist info here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NaYfY1uPZrx1e8UWmbKZQTpFehyLqSHwWYbKNQuuToo/edit?gid=0#gid=0
The metaverse gallery is great for creating a sense of scale, space, impact and unity, but I wanted people to have an easy to reference guide to connect with each artist outside of the virtual space.
There are works presetn from Ethereum, Tezos, Bitcoin, Base, Zora, and Solana, making it a truly crosschain exhibitoin.
I plan to do this as a new annual tradition for my birthday as a way to celebrate what I love most - art - and create a time capsule each year in a perma gallery of artists and artworks that submit making inclusion a low barrier of entry. Just make dope art, put it on the blockchain, and fill out the form during the open call period to be included.
This year I did not exclude anyone who submitted, but in future years who knows what will happen, because ultimately it is my birthday after all. <3
Check out the gallery here:
https://substrata.info/world/empresstrash/Cusp+of+Rebirth+V1
If you want to install SubstrataVR locally you can find the current stable version on the front page: https://substrata.info/
Complete list of artists who submitted and are included:
Thank you to all artists who decided to participate and helping make my birthday extra special this year. Please share far and wide. <3
This year for my birthday I decided to start a new tradition to break my birthday curse once and for all in which I create an open call for art to put together a Metaverse gallery and party. The theme of this open call I decided should be centered around the astrological themes of my birthday ~ Cusp of Rebirth.
Pisces is the last sign of the Zodiac, and Aries the first, so the transition period of March 17th - 23rd is referred to as the Cusp of Rebirth. All Zodiac signs inbetweens have cusps. Since my birthday is the 23rd, the last day of the cusp, making this the theme of an annual digital art exhibition seems like a no brainer, especially with the current zeitgeist being that we are in a digital renaissance.
There is a grand total of 90 artworks features in this gallery art from every artist who submitted. There is 71 in the outer ring and 19 in the inner ring. I decided on using the colosseum byjackcc1 on sketchfab and adjusted it to be black stone to fit my aesthetics more as the gallery base model, but in large scale in which I used the same model repeatedly to create a slightly more complex structure. Then to carve out the gallery space I added a glass floor about 1/2 up, so you can see the arches, water, trees, and terrain below, along with a giant dance floor in the middle.
This dance floor being above the glass floor is a reference to Glass Ceiling Disco an earlier work by me on the now closed Known Origin and gifted to Patrick Amadon:
https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0xabb3738f04dc2ec20f4ae4462c3d069d02ae045b/6529000
The reason for the scope and scale of this build is because I didn't want to create another slideshow of art displayed on one screen or a small, jammed metaverse gallery. I wanted the space to feel monumental, timeless, and enduring, and therefore the art within it monumental, timelsss, and enduring. The implication of being on the outer or inner oval placement has no personal ties, like I do no consider artists on the outer or inner circles closers or farther form me in relationship, but it is a matter of function. I wanted the outer large oval to be filled first, most stills or gifs, with the video art being mostly on the inner oval in which they are spaced out farther. This is to be less taxing on system resources, since there is a clipping buffer where they don't all load at once.
I wanted to make sure each artwork had equal space and weight, which is easy in an oval layout. There is no start or end, just a continuous cycle of art, like the astrological wheel. A colosseum is usually associated with more violent entertainments, but who is to say it can't be used for an art show and dance floor to bring people together in an exhcange of ideas in a relatively peaceful manner. This is one aspect of art and artist's role in civilization, so it's not baseline anythign radical or new. What is radical and new is the technology to, in the span of less than a month, bring artists from around the world together and create a space any of us who have internet can join together and enjoy.
This is the intentions and ideal of the metaverse, no geolocking, and people's voices coming together in an expansive and infinite space and anyone with access to the tech being able to participate.
Rebirth is not an easy process. Somethings need to be let go and recycled to make space and resources for new growth. I think a core duty of artists is to preserve their respective cultures during times of turmoil along with being advocates and defenders of free speech, which is the cornerstone of a free society.
As part of this exhibition, I have created an easy to reference catalogue of artworks and artist info here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NaYfY1uPZrx1e8UWmbKZQTpFehyLqSHwWYbKNQuuToo/edit?gid=0#gid=0
The metaverse gallery is great for creating a sense of scale, space, impact and unity, but I wanted people to have an easy to reference guide to connect with each artist outside of the virtual space.
There are works presetn from Ethereum, Tezos, Bitcoin, Base, Zora, and Solana, making it a truly crosschain exhibitoin.
I plan to do this as a new annual tradition for my birthday as a way to celebrate what I love most - art - and create a time capsule each year in a perma gallery of artists and artworks that submit making inclusion a low barrier of entry. Just make dope art, put it on the blockchain, and fill out the form during the open call period to be included.
This year I did not exclude anyone who submitted, but in future years who knows what will happen, because ultimately it is my birthday after all. <3
Check out the gallery here:
https://substrata.info/world/empresstrash/Cusp+of+Rebirth+V1
If you want to install SubstrataVR locally you can find the current stable version on the front page: https://substrata.info/
Complete list of artists who submitted and are included:
Thank you to all artists who decided to participate and helping make my birthday extra special this year. Please share far and wide. <3
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