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Merme Evolution—Part I

Sea of Redemption, Shezad Dawood’s hybrid PFP project—part organic fantasy world and part on-chain game—has successfully emerged from the ocean abyss and is now unfolding across NFTs one block at a time. Propelled by Mermetic energy, the Mermes have found many new homes and continue to proliferate. Here is a summary of the project so far and a look at the current evolution of the Mermes.Merme AdoptersTo date, 367 Sea of Redemption Expanded NFTs have been minted.There are currently 75 unique h...

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Feb 27
Drop 08: Sea of Redemption, Shezad Dawood
1,009 Expanded NFTs (NFTs + redeemable physical artwork). Sentimentite holders/allowlist/public mint prices: 0.08/0.12/0.15 ETH.Head to the website for artwork previews and FAQ.Twitter / Instagram / Community.IntroductionSea of Redemption is a PFP project that is part organic fantasy world and part on-chain game populated by the Mermes, archaic sea animals whose kindness and power is absolute. Mermes surface from the ocean abyss hitching a ride into wallets on crypto-sea creatures. They can b...
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Feb 10
The Centre Pompidou has acquired Sentimentite
Today, Friday 10th February, 2023, the Centre Pompidou announced the accession of its very first collection of NFT artworks. Zien is extremely proud that Agnieszka Kurant's Expanded NFT, Sentimentite, is one of these 17 NFT-based works entering the Pompidou permanent collection. Specifically, Mt Gox Hack, from the Sentimentite chapter Birth of Crypto, has been generously donated by Konstantin Kudryavtsev, a close friend and patron of Zien. Unique within this group of 17 artworks, the Sen...
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Jan 23
Journal #1: Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen
At Zien we believe much of our lives are spent in the 2.5th Dimension, the non-hierarchy between online and offline, between on-chain vs off-chain. Agnieszka Kurant's Sentimentite acts as an inaugural demonstration of what we mean by this: each of the one hundred Expanded NFTs exist as a ERC-721 NFT that can be redeemed on-chain for a unique counterpart physical sculpture. The very first Sentimentite sculptures to be redeemed were recently produced and to acknowledge this moment, Zien or...
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Dec 7
Community update 04
Zien is on a mission to build a Web3 platform for producing and collecting art by today’s foremost media-agnostic artists. After the Sentimentite drop with Agnieszka Kurant, we've been working hard to evolve Zien. Below introduces what's new, but first a summary of recent learnings.Subordinate intermediariesThe role of artists in the roughly 200 hundred year history of art and markets is predominantly one of wholesaler. Patrons, dealers, galleries and other intermediaries have extra...
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Sep 28
Welcome to Expanded NFTs
Hi.Zien would like to introduce our open-source, on-chain innovation: Expanded NFTs. In essence, these are artworks collected as NFTs which are then redeemed on-chain for unique material counterparts. But where do Expanded NFTs come from? How do they work? And, why do they matter? To answer these questions, first we need to zoom out.Inverse, ReverseThe media theorist Marshall McLuhan wrote that “all technologies are extensions of our physical and nervous systems.” This was in the 1960s, an er...
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Jul 26
Zien: An Introduction
Don’t miss our inaugural drop of Season 01—Sentimentite by Agnieszka Kurant—going live at 12 UTC+1 on Monday July 25. Go to @zienzienbot on Telegram to access the drop. Zien is a Telegram channel to collect contemporary art as Expanded NFTs. ERC-721 (NFTs) tokens that can be redeemed on-chain for unique physical counterparts. Zien brings worlds together: web2 and web3, 2D and 3D, NFTs and contemporary art. Zien is part gallery, production studio, foundation, think-tank, para-institution — an ...