friedo
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friedo
@friedooooo
Crypto & NFTs / Believing in digital culture and communities 🐸
Katılım Ocak 2021
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Dear friends, my heart is so full today. I am thrilled to announce that we are officially opening the doors to DATALAND on June 20th! 🏛️✨
Building the world’s first Museum of AI Arts at The Grand LA has been the journey of a lifetime for me, Efsun and our studio.
We cannot wait to welcome you all to step inside these immersive, nature-inspired data worlds and experience the true creative potential of human and machine collaboration.
Thank you for believing in this vision and dreaming with us.
See you in Los Angeles on June 20th! 🌍🕊️🤖
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Very exciting times ahead, can’t wait 🥳@refikanadol @DatalandMuseum
Refik Anadol@refikanadol
Dear Friends, Years ago, standing deep in the Amazon rainforest with Efsun, I realized I was not observing nature — I was standing inside a living intelligence. The forest was computing its own environment, translating invisible forces into physical form. That experience changed everything. 🌿 For ten years, we painted with data. Light was our brush. Buildings were our canvas. The pigments never dried because they were never physical. But we never stopped thinking about the canvas — the real one. The one you can touch. For the past year, our studio has been quietly building a bridge. We connected our Large Nature Model to advanced robotics, and for the first time, we are translating the memory of the Earth and the emotions of our collectors into real, physical brushstrokes. Real canvas. Real pigment. Human + Machine collaboration. 🤖🎨 Today, I am proud to share QUALIA — the first physical data painting series by our studio. 365 unique editions. Private sale. See you at DATALAND. ✨
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@Punk9611 @refikanadol Thanks for sharing, very well written and truly inspiring 🥹
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The “Winds of Yawanawá” by @refikanadol honors Yawanawá heritage and supports rainforest conservation. RT to help the cause! Let’s explore AI symbolism: “The Courage of the Yawanawá” 💖 🧵1/19 👇
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They said photography wasn’t art.
They said cinema wasn’t art.
They said video games weren’t art.
Now they say AI arts/digital art isn’t art.
I’ve spent over a decade with my studio team turning millions of data points into living, breathing artwork experiences ethically — at MoMA, at the Guggenheim, at the Venice Biennale. Not because a machine told me what to create, but because I had a vision that no traditional tool could realize.
Denying all AI technologies as an artistic medium doesn’t protect art. It limits it. The artists who embrace new tools don’t replace the old masters — they join them.
Art is not defined by the brush. It’s defined by the intention, the emotion, and the courage to see the world differently.
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45DF: A new NFT project by one of the best artists working in digital today, @kimasendorf. Just deployed this morning, a project conceived and begun in May 2024! It is spectacular, scaled small or large!
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@RogerDickerman @24_Hours_Art 21. I think there are more people like me.
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The Digital Art Pantheon: 24 Musings
1. This was an excruciating exercise.
2. This was a good exercise.
3. It is alive. It is dynamic. It will iterate. It is v.1.
4. Our Pantheon is likely not your Pantheon. That is a good thing.
5. We all spend so much time with hair on fire. This is a prompt to slow down and reflect.
6. Slowing down to reflect makes it easy to marvel at how special this space is and how much has happened in 13+ years.
7. 13+ years is nothing (in historical context). 13+ years is everything (to us living it).
8. If we don't stand up for our space, no one will.
9. One way to stand up for our space is to celebrate it.
10. One way to celebrate it is to speak about a work you find meaningful and add your own context.
11. Then speak about two.
12. Then speak about one hundred.
13. The best case scenario is that this Pantheon butterflies into all of us celebrating one thousand.
14. This is not purely an art market exercise. We began with XCOPY and a challenging thought experiment. How few could there be? (In case it is not clear, that is a compliment) An XCOPY Pantheon is a fun exercise. Someone should do it. We needed breadth here to tell a story.
15. A target was one or more works within each year.
16. 2025 was not eligible. That is what the upcoming 2025 Annual Report content is for. More celebrations still to come! It allows for a full year-plus of context to pass before considering artworks in the future.
17. Physical first and utility first were largely avoided.
18. There are so many gray areas. A thrill and an agony. Did I mention this was excruciating?
19. You do something like this because you love it.
20. You do something like this because you are obsessed with it.
21. I think there are more people like me.
22. It's easy to get stuck waiting and hoping. For the onboarding, for the conditions, for the algorithm, for the reason, for the market, for the time and place. Most of that won't happen. Until and unless you make it happen.
23. The answer is to act. When it becomes consensus to act, we win.
24. I can't wait to hear you and support you celebrating the art, the artworks, and the space that you love.
24 Hours of Art@24_Hours_Art
The Digital Art Pantheon: Chronological, unranked celebration of 100 of the most influential works in blockchain-based digital art history. The inaugural v.1, dynamic and iterative. This is our Pantheon. What is yours? annual.24hours.art/pantheon
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@lphaCentauriKid @Jediwolf Very well written and amazing to get into your thinking behind this amazing work! 🤩
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Returning your feed to sanity. Gen @artblocks_io art 🥰
Construction Token and matching Drawing For a Monument by @jeffgdavis
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We’re at the phase of the market where established projects in crypto announcing they’re winding down operations is starting to feel common.
Bitcoin has been stuck in the same range for 14 months and some major alts have been bleeding for the better part of two years.
All of this while stocks and commodities are at all time highs without any sign of slowing down.
Crypto feels dead.
Everyone is telling you you’re crazy.
You’re starting to question if they’re right.
I’ve been through this multiple times. Where everything was dead. There wasn’t hope. There wasn’t a new narrative.
Until there was.
And the people that were the winners? They were the ones that were crazy enough to stick around. They were the companies and projects that did whatever it took to survive through the pain because they believed in their communities. They believed in their vision. They never gave up.
It’s not a matter of if we’re going to see another insane bull run, but when.
Build when everyone else is too afraid to.
Stay crazy. Don’t give up. Be more bullish.
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