✦ objkt weekly recap — highlights from our platform & beyond ✦
✦ NEW @Kentocards opened an artist call for Season 01: Web Nostalgia, with two additional spots for artists to join its inaugural physical card collection.
✦ @RJ16848519 released Digital Devotion through @objktone, a new exhibition exploring faith, technology, and the rituals of the digital age. Sold out.
✦ Artist Collabs in the objkt Merch Shop: Rage Against the Machine Learning by @0009ine — wearable art exploring creative freedom in the age of AI.
✦ We celebrated International LGBTQIA+ Pride Day, highlighting queer artists across the Tezos ecosystem and featuring the .GLB(TQ+) PRIDE PARADE collection, curated by @ivnhgo.
✦ PONDER: We Are Still Alive!, the fourth collective drop curated by @demonegoo, brought together artists exploring resilience, memory, and survival through digital art.
✦ In Bloom by @leahschrager, curated by @_second_guess, explores identity through self-generating, ever-evolving digital selves.
✦ Contestants for a Pageant That No Longer Exists by @Micah_Alhadeff, presented through @objktlabs and curated by @postanika, expands fantasy, excess, and glitch through AI.
✦ ICONÆ – The Scissors, curated by @CinziaGabrielPH, invited artists to reinterpret a single everyday object through countless symbolic meanings.
✦ Weird Rituals, curated by @tornado_ilus for #WeirdKlub, explores symbols, ceremony, and the spaces where the everyday meets the mystical.
✦ @parinheidari released Zodiac//01, a collection of twelve zodiac-inspired portraits, with collectors of the complete set receiving a personalized artwork.
✦ New on @dropdotart:
- ◌ ✿ ⋱ the whole world ⋰ ✶ by @shybirkina
- Burnout by @MelihhKara
- Moving Still Life by @ArielllPresti
✦ New on @bootloader_art:
- Algorithmic Woods, by @PurzBeats
- Coreo Armónica, by @LuisBetx9
- Vortex Genesis, by @CinziaGabrielPH
✦ Featured on @origenprints - @tocame_munich, a Munich-based artist collective blending analog and digital techniques through their mixed-media Touch Base museum-grade print series.
Top 5 Creators:
- @zancan
- 📌🥩
- @RJ16848519
- @andreasgysin
- @kimasendorf
Top 5 Collectors:
- @NatureOfPrimes
- @EMBII4U
- @DagieDee
- @absurdeity
- @darbycrash58
✦Collector of the Week: @G4SP4RD#51, reflecting on collecting through intuition, curiosity, and long-term engagement with digital art. Up next: @James_Glohe
Thanks to all the artists, collectors, curators, and builders who made this week possible. See you next week. ✦
▼ Bound (I), by @RJ16848519 for Digital Devotion on @objktone
Congratulations @RJ16848519 and all lucky collectors ! The whole collection sold out in a few minutes 🤯
Now only available the 1/1 (auction with current bid by @absurdeity ) and the OE (last hours).
View the full collection → objkt.com/exhibitions/di…
NOW LIVE
❏ Digital Devotion ❏
by @RJ16848519
A meditation on where spiritual devotion ends and digital devotion begins.
@RJ16848519 is a self-taught digital artist from the UK, with a background in literary criticism. His work today focuses on pixel-painting, GIFs, and animation and seeks to capture how phones, computers and the internet itself impact our everyday lives.
❏ Igrexa da Virxe Peregrina
NOW LIVE
❏ Digital Devotion ❏
by @RJ16848519
A series exploring the uneasy relationship between faith, technology, and the screens we devote ourselves to.
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✦ Art Basel Week Recap ✦
While Art Basel brought the art world together in Basel once again, we’d like to thank everyone who spent time with the exhibitions and events supported by Art on Tezos throughout the week.
A few moments from Basel ↓