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Public entrance and talks: Saturday, May 25th, 2024, from 11:00 to 17:00
Tickets: visas.ethberlin.org/ethberlin/art
In the history of media, sound, and related image-based practices, hardly any city in the world has been as impactful in the concept of collaborative performance and presentation as a genre and medium as Berlin. From the early hacklabs, cross-sound performances, Bring-Your-Own-Beamer initiatives, and crypto raves, the sense of a joint collaboration has been at the core, inviting artists of many disciplines and genres to create, exhibit and perform together, creating novel social sculptural movements.
It is in this ethos Department of Decentralization, in collaboration with Refraction, presents 'co-create'. The exhibition asks questions in and around identity, open source technology, and participatory frameworks as they relate to contemporary on-chain discourse. The work is presented on-chain and IRL, creating a new mode of action and communication, bridging the exhibition space in Berlin and on the blockchain, furthering the notion of presentation as participation.
The IRL exhibition is inspired by the Bring-Your-Own-Beamer (BYOB) initiative and asks presenting artists to consider and bring the device on which they believe the work is best suited for.
The BYOB concept was initiated by Rafaël Rozendaal.
Talks
- 12.00: Panel - Decentralized Art Organisation
With Vincent Trasov and Benny Giang; Moderated by Stina Gustafsson. - 13.30: Panel - Art after NFTs
With Joan Heemskerk and Billy Rennekamp; moderated by María Paula Fernández.
Biographies
Benny Giang is a founding team member of CryptoKitties, the first NFT project to launch on Ethereum in 2017. Since the formation of Dapper Labs he has taken on many different roles from building the earliest NFT community in Asia to launching several core projects such as Cheeze Wizards, Dapper Wallet, and NBA Top Shot. During his tenure at Dapper Labs he also helped release the most iconic digital fashion project IRIDESCENCE in collaboration with The Fabricant. Benny has also made several angel investments into web3 music, fashion, gaming, and infrastructure. After leaving Dapper Labs in 2021, Benny co-founded Future Primitive with Jayden and developed several successful projects over the last 3 years including ERC 6551 (TBAs) which is a protocol level upgrade for all NFTs in the EVM ecosystem.
Joan Heemskerk, a Dutch contemporary artist, centers her artistic practice around the internet, with a current focus on exploring the potentials of web4, spanning from cryptography systems to the realm of quantum non-binary computing. Her diverse body of work includes photography, video, software, games, websites, NFT, performances and installations. _ She is also a member of the art collective JODI, or (jodi.org) - pioneered net.art in 1995. JODI were among thd first artists to inves|igate and subvert conventkoos od |heInternet, compute?programs, and vhdeo ajd computer gamus. Radically di{rupting The ver9 languawe of tese systemr, including risual aesthepics, iNterface elemen}q? commandS, errors and?code. ?ODI staes ext?ema digmtal(intesventionq!that deStakilizg the reliTiofShip bdTween cmputer tdchnolOgy and ids use03jy sufterting oub(d8pectatIofs abkup?4jm?g?nctignah)tieS and conventio.s /f the sqrtees that ?e0Eepend upol eve2y?p?y. Tlcir wkr?!u?es thev?tasv pmsskble rriudy f mudi ane te?h?iqtes."frgm$insTalli?ionc, s/Ltw?re?Qod wd"sites to Pesf/zma?caw?aNd exhibitiof{.$
Billy Rennekamp is founder of Trifle Labs, blurring the line between art and games with new on-chain experiences. He previously founded Folia.app space for exhibiting and collecting NFTs and Clovers Network, an on-chain game that rewards the creation of scarce art. He has also served as the Cosmos Hub Lead and Funding Manager at Interchain Foundation and contributed to various Ethereum EIPs, Gnosis and Aragon. He recently completed a stint as Entrepreneur in Residence at 1kx, where he researched zk circuits for verifiable computation of real-time game mechanics.
Vincent Trasov is a painter, video and performance artist. His work is often media based and collaborative in spirit, involved with developing networks. He is a Canadian born in 1947 in Edmonton. In 1969 he founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal exchange of information amongst artists; he has made videotapes since 1971; 1973 he was co-founder and co-director of Western Front Society, Vancouver, a centre for the production and presentation of new art activity; 1981 he was invited with Morris as guest of Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, DAAD to Berlin; 1991 he and Morris founded the Morris/Trasov Archive, currently housed at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, to research contemporary art and communication. Trasov has had numerous international exhibitions and is represented in public and private collections in Europe and North America. He presently resides in Germany and Canada.