🌵❤️✨GM Cactoid Family!✨
@LACMA
+ Cactoid Labs' Remembrance of Things Future Volume
#5
,
@williamapan
’s ‘DISTANCE’ is officially SOLD OUT✨ Huge thank you to everyone who supported this incredible project!
The Official OpenSea Link: ❤️
✨✨❤️ Currently on view at
@LACMA
's Stark Bar screens:
@williamapan
's brilliant COMPUTE: Sinking Patterns process videos. Super excited for William's upcoming release w/ the Los Angeles County Museum of Art +
@CactoidLabs
. . . next week! Stay tuned
❤️✨✨
🔥Join us & the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's
@thejoelferree
, Director of the Art + Tech Lab to learn about
@LACMA
's Historic Art & Tech Program 1967-71
🗓️ Wed. Jan. 11th
⏲️ 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST
🧵 1/5 👇
Weekly wisdom from
#MediciMinutes
for 1/1 artists. 🙏🏾
@CozomoMedici
. This is important advice. Artists benefit tremendously from tiered markets. A combination of 1/1s and editions, which allows them to "evangelize a crowd" & to create liquidity in their markets. ⚔️🤺 🔥
-----The journey starts with you. Are you prepared?-----
❤️✨Finally staked my !Chimps, who are busy training in the
#DOJO
! ...So impressed
@ChimpersNFT
@TimpersHD
@PunkHot10
@NFT1nsight
🔥 The art & storyline are glorious. Music is awesome. Feels like a real FUN game! !CHIMP❤️✨
Reflecting on iconic gifts to museums like the Panza collection of Minimalism, which allowed institutions around the world to tell the story of Minimal Art.
🔥
@CozomoMedici
's donation of blockchain art to
@LACMA
is a watershed moment in Art History
Digital Art❤️🙏🤺⚔️🍷
🧵👇
1/ Announcing the first donation of on-chain art from a collector to a museum, and the largest digital fine art collection to enter a museum
22 works from The Cozomo de' Medici Collection have been added to the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
🧵1/4
✨❤️✨One of the kindest and most brilliant minds out there
@ArtOnBlockchain
, who has created not only a historic body of work, but set in motion an art movement with a dynamism I had never, until now, encountered!
🔥🔥So powerful!!!
@ParisHilton
working w/ my colleagues at
@LACMA
to acquire digital art by women!!! Exciting times for Art,
#NFTs
@LACMA
& social change! 🔥🔥 LFGooooo!
✨🌈✨Excited for
@shantell_martin
whose work has been acquired by our incredible colleagues
@LACMA
, along w/ the brilliant art of
@Krista_Kim
🔥🔥 🙏🏾Thanks to the new Digital Artwork Fund to support art by women! Spearheaded by the Queen
@ParisHilton
! ✨✨❣️❣️✨✨
🔥🔥🔥Excited to share with you all more about the gorgeous work
@MonicaRizzolli
has created for the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
initiative 'Remembrance of Things Future.' Inspired by iconic 17th century woodblock prints by Hokusai in the museum's collection💫💫💫
✨❤️Pleased to announce the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
'Remembrance of Things Future Vol. I' initiative, in which pioneering artists take inspiration from the museum's collection, is fully sold out.Thank you to everyone who participated! So excited for the reveal & future releases!❤️
✨✨❤️ Thrilled to Announce❤️✨✨
@LACMA
Remembrance of Things Future Vol.4
@emilyxxie
: Interwoven
100 unique works generated on-chain
Wed June 7
Price 0.5 ETH
Register allowlist here:
Updates in the Cactoid Labs Discord:
✨✨❤️Thrilled that
@LACMA
is being honored by
@nftnow
for its incredible work in
#Web3
this year, including an acquisition of historic blockchain works gifted by
@CozomoMedici
and the pioneering digital art initiatives
@CactoidLabs
is bringing to fruition at the museum❤️ ✨✨
The NFT100 is here 🏆
We are excited to unveil the 2nd annual NFT100, recognizing 100 influential creators & 100 community leaders for achievements over the past year in web3.
View the full list:
Fantastic piece by
@CozomoMedici
in this week's
#MediciMinutes
on the brilliant artist
@annespalter
, who together with
@michaelspalter
has preserved and supported one of the most significant collections of early computer art in the world, Spalter Digital.
🌵❤️Excited to see u all in Miami❤️🌵
Amongst the week's incredible lineup from
@ArtBasel
to the experimental peregrinations of
@operator_______
to
@reisingerandres
TakeOver, who wants to visit these museum exhibitions with us?
NAM JUNE PAIK: THE MIAMI YEARS
@TheBassMoA
🧵1/4
🔥🔥
@Jen_Stark
's hypnotic interpretation of an iconic quilt in LACMA's collection. Her stunning contribution to the
@CactoidLabs
+
@LACMA
Remembrance of Things Future initiative. Releasing Mar 8 🔥🔥
I'm thrilled to reveal my artwork for the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
initiative "Remembrance of Things Future" 🥳
Muted Refraction
Edition of 100 releasing on March 8th
🧵(1/5) A thread about a quilt...
🧵1/4
✨❤️Happy
#MapanMonday
! A little thread reveling in the details of
@williamapan
's DISTANCE & the stunning portrait of France the series constitutes. Below are
#247
, which alludes to the city of Fontainebleau, by
@Artifaction2
; &
#110
, an aerial view of Paris, by
@Zeneca
👇
🧵1/3
✨❤️Had a FABULOUS time at
#NFTNYC
! So many highlights which we’ll be sharing all week including the
@NFTnow
Gala where
@LACMA
was honored for the innovating work they’re doing w/
@CactoidLabs
& where
@cryptocactoid
& I finally got to meet our dear fren
@emilyxxie
IRL✨
"We want to show people anyone can be an art collector. The digital art world has been primarily dominated by men & we're really excited to help change that, supporting women-led digital art projects & encouraging new voices in the space, both artists &collectors."
@CozomoMedici
Gm. Christie’s recently came by the villa
Over a fine wine we talked fine art, the future of the digital renaissance, and my 3 predictions for 2023 🍷⚔️
❣️✨👁️✨❣️ARTISTS: Who is out there, making work directly in dialogue with VIDEO GAME history? . . ...Thinking about the games that have inspired me, like this early
@AtariX
game created by one of the first women game designers, Carol Shaw. 🧡🎮🕹️🧡
⭐Speaker Highlight⭐
#NFTLA
is excited to welcome
@LadyCactoid
, Curator | Artist | Co-Founder Cactoid Labs!
To read more about this powerhouse speaker, visit and secure your ticket today.
✨💖Delighted to welcome these glorious works by
@annaluciacodes
& the quilters of Gees Bend into my collection.On left: a collab w/the quilter Essie Bendolph Pettway.On right: a collab w/ the quilter Loretta Pettway.Having been to Gees Bend, Alabama, I'm very inspired!
@arsnlart
@artnet
@CozomoMedici
In the traditional artworld , you either have a trust fund or you are starving. You either have a MFA or you are an outsider. I will seize any tool that offers more power to artists. Every time. "We are the digital renaissance.
And we are just getting started."🔥🔥🔥
🌵❤️GM Cactoid Family!
The
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
' Remembrance of Things Future Volume
#4
,
@emilyxxie
: Interwoven is officially SOLD OUT
🙏❤️Thank you to everyone who supported this incredible project
The Official OpenSea Link:
🔥🔥Bringing the glorious texture of analog technologies onto the blockchain-
@thesarahshow
's entrancing contribution for the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
Remembrance of Things Future initiative. An interpretation of Kirchner's iconic German Expressionist woodblock print 'Two Dancers.'
1) Pleased to unveil my new artwork as part of Remembrance of Things Future, presented by
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
.
"2 answers"
A signature VideoPainting in an edition of 100.
Launches March 8th.
Where did this come from? What does it mean...? (🧵)
🔥Fantastic takes by
@CozomoMedici
on the brilliant artist/activist Ai Weiwei.
I had the honor of working w/ Weiwei to bring his powerful lego assemblages to LA two years ago.
*Note: in 2018 Weiwei did an important NFT series on the value of human life w/
@kevinabosch
.
🚨There are zero links in this post. Please don’t click on any links that might appear in the comments. Squiggle mints are not for sale. Anyone claiming otherwise is a scam. Beware of impersonators. Also sorry for always starting threads with this warning :/ 🚨
TLDR: I’m minting…
✨❤️Join
@CactoidLabs
@MonicaRizzolli
@outland_art
+
@LACMA
's Hollis Goodall, curator of Japanese Art for a dive into Monica's stunning algorithmic series based on Hokusai's iconic woodblock prints❤️✨
🗓️Tuesday April 4
⏰9:30 am PDT <> 12:30 pm EDT
Excited to speak w/ the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Leslie Jones about
@LACMA
's exhibition 'Coded'. See below for some teasers of artists & topics we'll dig into w/our amazing guests in tmrw's
#TwitterSpaces
🗓️Wed Feb 1
⏰ 9:15 am PST
🧵 1/
👇
❤️✨Today✨May 4✨❤️
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
is pleased to announce
Vol.3 of the Remembrance of Things Future initiative: 0xDEAFBEEF: Noumenon + Chronophotograph
@_deafbeef
's Chronophotographs release 2pm PDT
Use only official links in Cactoid Labs Discord
❤️Chatting w/digital OG
@waambat
about her generative meme-based work👇
'It’s a study of semiotics reflected in online landscapes. Extreme market fluctuation, herd mentality of online discourse, rampant digital commodification of libidinal desires & the emerging singularity.'
Blessed to bring “Six of Cups Physical Tarot Scroll” by
@justinaversano
into our collection. Six of Cups represents happiness, childhood, a return home.
@cryptocactoid
& I actually got to help create this piece with Justin &
@gabbagallery
, an experience i'll cherish always
🔥🔥🔥“The underlying reasons for web3 is to shift the paradigm and take our power back"-
@CallMeLatasha
Excellent Huff Post piece by
@_TARYNitUP
- a must read about the Queen of NFT music
🚨TODAY 🚨
Phase 1 & 2 of the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
'Remembrance of Things Future' release is
✨Monday, March 13 <> 12:00 PM PST: Phase 1 mint opens
✨Monday, March 13 <> 2:00 PM PST: Phase 2 mint opens
❤️See DISCORD FOR OFFICIAL LINKS❤️
🔥Honored to welcome Marina Abramovic's TheHero
#1555
-1559 to our collection. Marina's a founding figure of performance art & the first female artist of such stature to mint on the blockchain. A historical moment for the vaults
@circa__art
@ArtistisPresent
🔥
🌵❤️🔥MUST READ❤️🔥🌵Fantastic essay by scholar Lindsay Caplan on long-form generative art in
@outland_art
. Featuring
@williamapan
's Distance work w/
@LACMA
,
@tylerxhobbs
, as well as observations on Vera Molnar's homage to Paul Klee, Hiroshi Kawano & others✨
🧵2/2
✨✨❤️Later we had the most delicious time w/
@Anonymoux2311
@msanonymoux2311
their beautiful family & so many other brilliant folks at Carbone including the incredible NFL tight end
@Ebron85
❤️✨✨
One of my heroes — Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio exhibition is also opening at MoMA! Epic feelings for the holiday season! New documentation is also coming soon. Trying RED v-Raptor for the first time. Stills from the recordings.
🔥🌵❤️TONIGHT in LA: Join me &
@cryptocactoid
at
@NFTuesdayLA
to share journeys through art, engineering & the blockchain, talking through issues surrounding security, smart contracts, insights from the traditional art world & what
@CactoidLabs
is building with
@LACMA
🔥🌵❤️
✨✨❤️Today, we'll be speaking with a stellar lineup of curators, including
@sunnycheungart
of Hong Kong's
@mplusmuseum
, who has curated
@beeple
's current Human One exhibition. Sunny's article on Beeple below is a must read👇
LOVE
@MonicaRizzolli
's beautiful new generative series in dialogue with Hokusai's A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls in
@LACMA
's collection. Here's a bit of background on this fascinating Japanese artist👇❤️🌵
@LACMA
@HollisGoodall7
🧵(2/5)
A bit of info on Hokusai for you all in advance of todays space:
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese artist known for his mastery of woodblock printing. Hokusai's prints often depict natural landscapes, everyday life, and mythical creatures.
🔥 finally got myself a badass anarchist girl
@pussyrrriot
@PUSSYVERSEx
. i used to live in an anarchist co-op so this piece resonates with my belief in decentralized power to change the world ✊🏾🌈👠🔥💣
❤️✨Last week the brilliant pioneer of computer art, Manfred Mohr turned 85✨Each time I walk through
@LACMA
's Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, I'm mesmerized by Manfred's seminal work Cubic Limit (1973-74), created with FORTRAN on a CDC 6400 mainframe. Link in 🧵 below👇❤️
My interview with William Mapan (
@williamapan
) is LIVE! If you are an artist or collector, this is for you.👇
For the unacquainted, William Mapan is an artist who lives in Paris, France. His preferred medium is code. He is best known for his long-form generative artwork, and in…
Happy Pride Day🌈🌈 I don't have a
@cryptopunksnfts
but below is my
@pridepunks2018
, which is the first known on-chain derivative of CryptoPunks. Only 2 were minted in 2018.The project was rediscovered in 2022.❤️blockchain archaeology
In advance of our A.I. Roundtable w/
@LACMA
, I asked
#ChatGPT
to lay out the issues & debates surrounding A.I. & Art
Response (👇) is Accurate and Succinct🤣🙀
Might humans frame these questions any better? Join us & let's see 🌵❤️
9:30am TODAY
@artnet
@CozomoMedici
Expertly argued. Traditional artworld going the way of classical music. I've worked in bluechip gallery/museums for 10 yrs. SO OVER that world. Artists clamoring to be accepted by the same rich collectors. All the elite posturing. The phony pretenses to social good.
🧵4/4
Isn't that cool?! A conceptual bridge linking the Chromie Squiggle to one of the very first exhibitions on computer art! Honored to welcome Chromie Sguiggle
#9797
into our collection! Thank you
@ArtOnBlockchain
for all you have done to propel this movement forward. ❤️❤️
🧵4/4
Excited for folks to reveal their Chronophotographs.🙏
@_deafbeef
& this community who, in helping trigger the releaseShutter function in DEAFBEEF's code, will forever be listed as the photographers of these works in the metadata. Now part of
@LACMA
/Muybridge history✨📸
🔥🔥🔥Excited to share with you all more about the gorgeous work
@MonicaRizzolli
has created for the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
initiative 'Remembrance of Things Future.' Inspired by iconic 17th century woodblock prints by Hokusai in the museum's collection💫💫💫
🧵(1/6) I’m excited to reveal the art I’ve created for the
@cactoidlabs
+
@LACMA
project Remembrance of Things Future!
A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls
Editions: 100
Release: Mar. 8th
*to be followed by longform generative release from same algorithm
✨✨
@emilyxxie
's stunning contribution to the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
'Remembrance of Things Future' initiative. A meditation on the computational roots of textiles and quilts in the museum's collection✨✨
Excited to reveal the art I’m releasing for the
@cactoidlabs
+
@LACMA
project, Remembrance of Things Future!
Title: "Generative Patchwork and Bullseye"
Edition size: 100
Release date: March 8th
🧵(1/6)
Early next week, observations of Noumenons will begin, preminting the initial supply (> 150) of Chronophotographs for subsequent release with
@cactoidlabs
@lacma
. A participatory element will allow some others to take part, acting as the "photographer"
✨✨❤️Next week:
@_deafbeef
: Vol. 3 of
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
'Remembrance of Things Future' initiative. One of the most significant artworks yet to explore the medium specificity of blockchain, via Muybridge's early chronophotographs in the museum's collection✨✨❤️
Excited to share this new work in partnership with
@LACMA
and
@cactoidlabs
, drawing inspiration from the chronophotography of Eadweard Muybridge in the LACMA archives. 2 collections that interact via blockchain mechanism: NOUMENON and CHRONOPHOTOGRAPH 🧵 (sound on!)🎶
✨✨❤️
@ix_shells
stunning contribution to the
@LACMA
+
@CactoidLabs
'Remembrance of Things Future' initiative. A meditation on one of the earliest photograph's in the museum's collection, a botanical image from 1851❤️✨✨
Excited to reveal the art I’m releasing for the
@cactoidlabs
+
@LACMA
project, “Remembrance of Things Future”
Title: "Ahead of Time"
Edition size: 100
Release date: March 8th
🧵
Explore the creative depths of artist
@williamapan
as he weaves his art on the blockchain into
@LACMA
's encyclopedic collection in partnership with
@CactoidLabs
for his upcoming exhibit in, 'Remembrance of Things Future.' Ft. guest host
@LadyCactoid
👉