vrtrashfuture 'artitechture'
https://opensea.io/assets/0x09046d37b1519d9388e0774dc79e7ec2936c1900/5 All great cities have been shaped by great art. In times of crisis and change, art doesn’t just reflect resilience—it reveals the hidden layers of our shared experience, weaving connection and meaning through complexity. Today, in an increasingly interconnected world, art, architecture, and language are more vital than ever. They have the power to illuminate what is concealed by the shadows of opaque systems and distant pl...
vrtrashWhat do you see outside your front door?
The concrete, shiny from the rainwater and smooth from the fresh tarmac, stretched in front of me as I cycled from North to South Harbour in Copenhagen. It's a small city, so traversing takes under 30 minutes. Biking is the preferred mode of transportation - accessible and healthy, and you can meander through the quaint streets to your destination. Sometimes I ride in silence, only the ambient sound of the streets and thoughts as my companions. This time, I was looking forward to listeni...
vrtrashWalled gardens
Between two wallsCreatives often find themselves in between walls. On one side, a concrete behemoth towers over them, imposing its economic and profit-maximising demands - a necessity in today's industrial world. Large organisations, intimidating gatekeepers and mountains of paperwork make up these immense structures, often seemingly too big to work with, too big to overcome. On the other side - a friendlier yet nonetheless tall wall of creative work that the artist has set out to create...
This is a full version of a piece aiio wrote for UFO News 8. Subscribe here:
In the local Copenhagen coffee shop, a tote bag hangs on the wall. It says: "Filter coffee, not people." A girl, hunched over her phone, scrolls—follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow, like, like, like—barely interacting with her friend sitting opposite her. She's using the app that seems to know what we like before we even think we do. It serves us our tastes, uncannily reading our minds. She's using the app that has become integral to how we communicate. Social apps have become our lubricant, loyally spurting out relevant content just when we run out of something to say.
But they monetise our eyeballs without our consent.
The attention we give them feeds into their perpetual need to farm our attention more. We fall for these trends that present themselves as our interests; we rush to post the fit pic from that new coffee shop, for a moment of dopamine we get from the likes that fly in shortly afterward.
It's like we're in invisible cellophane bubbles, the same info regurgitating inside, getting filled to the brim with noise. We are still living in a world where these wrappers are made by corporates determining our tastes and interests through targeted ads. We're full!
Instead, we want to eat real content from real people, not from synthetic algorithms. We don't want a manufactured community where attention is subsidised by monetised eyeballs.
Onchain media built on Web3 social graphs is a breath of fresh air. There's an opportunity here to amplify real voices from real people, access collectively organised knowledge and embed keys to navigate different environments.
This is a full version of a piece aiio wrote for UFO News 8. Subscribe here:
In the local Copenhagen coffee shop, a tote bag hangs on the wall. It says: "Filter coffee, not people." A girl, hunched over her phone, scrolls—follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow, like, like, like—barely interacting with her friend sitting opposite her. She's using the app that seems to know what we like before we even think we do. It serves us our tastes, uncannily reading our minds. She's using the app that has become integral to how we communicate. Social apps have become our lubricant, loyally spurting out relevant content just when we run out of something to say.
But they monetise our eyeballs without our consent.
The attention we give them feeds into their perpetual need to farm our attention more. We fall for these trends that present themselves as our interests; we rush to post the fit pic from that new coffee shop, for a moment of dopamine we get from the likes that fly in shortly afterward.
It's like we're in invisible cellophane bubbles, the same info regurgitating inside, getting filled to the brim with noise. We are still living in a world where these wrappers are made by corporates determining our tastes and interests through targeted ads. We're full!
Instead, we want to eat real content from real people, not from synthetic algorithms. We don't want a manufactured community where attention is subsidised by monetised eyeballs.
Onchain media built on Web3 social graphs is a breath of fresh air. There's an opportunity here to amplify real voices from real people, access collectively organised knowledge and embed keys to navigate different environments.
vrtrashfuture 'artitechture'
https://opensea.io/assets/0x09046d37b1519d9388e0774dc79e7ec2936c1900/5 All great cities have been shaped by great art. In times of crisis and change, art doesn’t just reflect resilience—it reveals the hidden layers of our shared experience, weaving connection and meaning through complexity. Today, in an increasingly interconnected world, art, architecture, and language are more vital than ever. They have the power to illuminate what is concealed by the shadows of opaque systems and distant pl...
vrtrashWhat do you see outside your front door?
The concrete, shiny from the rainwater and smooth from the fresh tarmac, stretched in front of me as I cycled from North to South Harbour in Copenhagen. It's a small city, so traversing takes under 30 minutes. Biking is the preferred mode of transportation - accessible and healthy, and you can meander through the quaint streets to your destination. Sometimes I ride in silence, only the ambient sound of the streets and thoughts as my companions. This time, I was looking forward to listeni...
vrtrashWalled gardens
Between two wallsCreatives often find themselves in between walls. On one side, a concrete behemoth towers over them, imposing its economic and profit-maximising demands - a necessity in today's industrial world. Large organisations, intimidating gatekeepers and mountains of paperwork make up these immense structures, often seemingly too big to work with, too big to overcome. On the other side - a friendlier yet nonetheless tall wall of creative work that the artist has set out to create...
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