CURATORIAL STATEMENT

“This art piece portrays a person wearing state-of-the-art goggles, fully immersed in an astonishing AR/VR environment. The artwork symbolizes how immersing oneself in mixed realities can lead to inner growth and transformation. Equipped with advanced technology to interact with the surrounding digital world. As they explores the metaverse realms, they are captivated by the beauty and intricacy of the surroundings. The body language in the image conveys a sense of wonder and empowerment, a conquering of new territories within self. The art piece celebrates the potential of emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, AR, and VR in the realm of art. By immersing oneself in such realities, individuals can tap into their inner selves, conquer personal challenges, and experience a sense of expansion and interconnectedness. The journey in the artwork represents the transformative power of technology to help us overcome inner obstacles and unlock our full potential.”

“The rose has been a symbol of God's presence in various situations since ancient times. It offers a glimpse of the masterful creator's active handiwork in the world. As the rose blooms, its buds gradually open up to reveal blossoms with layers, illustrating how spiritual wisdom unfolds in people's lives. "The Creator's Soul" represents emerging technologies that allow creators to explore different realities and perspectives. The rose symbolizes the creator's soul in the virtual realm, as they push the boundaries of creation across digital realities and realms through collaboration, imagination, and storytelling. The artwork is a digitally painted and drawn-over photograph of the rose, using a color palette commonly used in the metaverse. The layers of paint splashes, doodles, and line work represent the collaboration of different art forms across different realities and realms. ”

“Abstract environmental landscape that reflects the beauty and complexity of nature. In Virtual Reality each artist expresses the importance of nature in the meta world they created using Oculus Quest 2 headset, Tilt Brush and Blender.”

“The central theme of GunsRule#02 is the problem of gun violence in the United States, which consistently harms the nation's children. Throughout history, the foundation of the United States has been established and dominated through gun violence. As a result, many lawmakers prioritize profit and money over the well-being of their constituents, particularly those they deem different from themselves, exhibiting little care for the lives of their own citizens, particularly children. Special thanks to Francesco D'Andrea's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix style) Format: MP4 (60 secs) Dimension: 1920 × 1314 pixels © Angelique E. Anderson. All rights reserved.”

“For me, this image signifies an awareness of hybrid living, along a spectrum from partially to complete immersion in a virtual or metaverse reality. A cyborg ontology for humans is becoming clearer and clearer, and expanding exponentially from the seemingly “innocent” days of Web 01 in the early 1990s. Now almost every human on the planet has their reality altered, enhanced, or impacted by digital technologies; as this technology facilitates and intervenes with next level ecosystems of biology, consciousness, and commerce. We see this evolutionary trending in the advent and implementation of Web3, AI, and the Blockchain.”

“If AI was a humanoid, it would drain tones of data sitting inside the New York Public Library at 5th Avenue. Still image generated by @midjourney”

“This piece explores the interstitial space between portal thresholds. What is the experience, how does it feel, what do you see. Instead of a instantaneous transition from one space to another, this seeks to capture the process. The interstitial space between thresholds is an ephemeral and evanescent realm, where the boundaries of reality dissolve into a fluid and amorphous state, and the construct of time becomes elusive and ambiguous. Translucent fluid form edges transform and hint at materials of rock, water, and clouds. Illuminated concentric circles and ornamental lines act as wayfinding devices, guiding the viewer to the other side. Multiple text2img, text2video, blends, and interpolations were used in fabricating this final piece. Music was also created in collaboration with artificial intelligence. Music generated by Mubert https://mubert.com/render”

“Welcome to un OTRO MUNDO, this is the first piece minted for COEXISTENCIA, a mixed-media digital art series that blends eco-feminism, indigenous futurism, magical elements, and co-existence with nature. Each piece depicts a surreal scene that captures an intimate moment with biomorphic creatures, mothers caring for their young or entities contemplating reproduction; an invocation of the conscious evolution of a new mythological human species. Created by Protagonista (AKA Tanya Vlach), this series began as an experiment with generating fantasy scenes through AI processing in October 2022. The scenes are then refined and expanded in Procreate, and some pieces are further explored through an embodied and tactile process by physically adding different mediums for texture. By taking these precious scenes out of the digital realm transforming them it the physical, and then returning them into the digital as offerings, each NFT in the COEXISTENCIA series holds magical metaphysical properties”

“The Occurrence: Part I Out of the blue of an otherwise perfectly ordinary day, it came careening down from the sky, crashing in a spectacular and seemingly endless cloud of shimmering ash that spread throughout the land, sparing nothing. No one could possibly have known what would ensue. When the dust finally settled, it was onto a world that would be forever transformed. Some say it began on the day that The Child first noticed an almost imperceptible difference in the colors on a snake. But it was still the Before Times, and no one yet understood. What All agreed on, in retrospect, is that there is a dark side to seductive beauty that at first remains unseen…”

“Very special augmented reality active NFT made with https://artivive.com/ Did you see the augmented reality nature of this piece of art and experience the entirety of it you will need the Artivive app on your phone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artivive/id1188737494 Do you have this app you can point your phone at the screen and experience the animation and hear the music that I have created this amazingly unique piece of art ”

“We stand at the nexus of two worlds, a portal into the unknown. Two half’s representing a whole, one half a twin of the other, one represents the real, the other, the virtual. Trees also represent for me, conduits to other realms, they too are the nexus between worlds and dimensions, so I often represent them in my virtual work. They become the imaginative bridge between the physical and the virtual. They are the symbolic portals like Yggdrasil the world tree holding the nine worlds: this I think, is a perfect allegorical representation of the Metaverse. ”

“The Realm of Fabricated Utopia; The Metaverse. The place we my often find our time and resources going to in the year 2023. The space that has potential to cross boundaries between communities and nations. The place we house most of our proudest assets and are free to be who/what we desire. Brittany Kurtinecz, ' The Realm of Fabricated Utopia ', Audio, Video, 3D, 3840 x 2160, 2023”

“There was a fearless adventurer named 4everKurious who stumbled upon a mysterious portal in the middle of the city. Without hesitation, 4everKurious stepped through the portal and found himself transported to a strange and wondrous steampunk world, filled with intricate machinery, gears, and clockwork contraptions. As 4everKurious explored the metaverse, he discovered a series of portals that led to different AI metaverses. Excited by the prospect of exploring these new worlds, 4everKurious eagerly stepped through each portal, not knowing what wonders he would discover. Bounce is a piece that combines the metaverse concepts with AI, creating imaginary worlds and opportunity for creative collaboration and storytelling. Bounce uses Midjourney v4 and v5, Kaiber, Topaz Giga, VideoLeap, Glitche, and ChatGPT (maybe more). ”