In conversation with Fakewhale,
@brtmoments
founder
@seth
shares insights into his journey through the digital art landscape, the inspiration behind
@crypto_citizens
and the project’s ongoing impact across the globe.
“If software is eating the world, then digital art is a key…
doing a double take on this one. musee d’orsay promoting brightmoments paris is not something i saw coming. you come up with a good idea at the right time, find and keep the right people, and grind and grind and grind some more, and then you look up.
Février c'est le mois de l'art digital et du
#web3
à Paris.
Le musée vous partage sa sélection d'événements et lieux incontournables.
👉 À commencer par { Le Code d'Orsay } du 13 février au 10 mars avec
@agoriamusic
.
@brtmoments
@nft_paris
@NFTFactoryParis
just landed tokyo. every
@brtmoments
city mint starts with an initial discovery trip to meet artists and scout locations. berlin last nov. london in april. cdmx in august. a common thread of creative capitals awakening from quarantine to the power of on chain gen art.
For each new city we activate
@brtmoments
, we publish a new catalog that features interviews with artists and images of their work. This is the welcome letter I wrote for the Buenos Aires edition of the Bright Moments Quarterly:
🧵
Since November 2021, 81 artists have created algorithms that have generated 100 outputs at
@brtmoments
live minting events around the world. Next month in Paris, 19 new artists will reveal their algorithms. In April, we will host a retrospective of these 100 x 100 projects in…
Bright Moments 100 x 100
100 algorithms. 100 outputs. Live minted at Bright Moments 2021-2024.
Venice, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico city, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Paris, Venice.
Breaking news 🚨
We are so excited to announce our official partnership with
@artblocks_io
A new collaboration that will include a series of NFT releases on Art Blocks, coupled with Bright Moment’s iconic minting experiences.
What does this mean? Learn more ↓
Couldn't resist. Yamabushi
#97
by
@RichardNadler1
. Sometimes a drop lives rent-free in your mind. This is one of them. AI, generative, who cares. Art. Bravo
@verse_works
can’t make this up. such a perfect mint. of all the artists and subjects, zach’s evening water ripples opens up the venice finale. who says random can’t become intentional?
Come experience the Dream Cathedral, a sitespecific real-time collaboration between AI Artists
@ganbrood
@huemin_art
@mixmnagy
, that enables church goers to express their visions as if they were digital painters in the Renaissance.
I wrote this introduction to the Bright Moments Paris Quarterly:
In July last year, 1,600 CryptoCitizens cast their votes for Paris as the 9th and penultimate destination in Bright Moments’ global journey.
Considering the central role that Paris has played in the evolution of…
"Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them." Walter Benjamin, 1931.
"Gotta Catch Em All!" Pokemon, 1996
#ultrafullset
@crypto_citizens
, 2024
People hear “IRL minting” and think of big screens on gallery walls showing 1/1 NFTs with barcodes. That barely scratches the surface. In 2022, we are going to see how NFTs can create Non Fungible Experiences. Literally and programmatically.
on the promise of ai art as a store of value:
1/
over the past two years, on-chain generative art has achieved product market fit within the highly volatile crypto market.
there are a few key factors that have driven this success:
When I reached out to
@emilyxxie
in March 2022 to consider being part of Bright Moments London, she was working full time as a software engineer and had yet to release Qilin on AB. Her emergence as one of the great gen artists has been breathtaking.
fxhash 2.0
— a multichain future
Today, we're super excited to share some major news with you! We've started working on a significant platform expansion built around integrating Ethereum & on-chain minting.
Let's talk about what the fxhash 2.0 future looks like 😎⬇️
As DAOs and NFTs move IRL, we will need a new consumer stack for enabling these generative experiences: TICKETING (mint passes), GATING (access privileges), VOTING (governance), and DROPPING (token distribution)
It is too soon to say which of the first
@fx_hash_
2.0 eth drops will be iconic, but
@piterpasma
has created a 3d mondrian world with “5954 characters of code, math, no libraries,” props to
@ajberni
for shepherding
pictured: blokkendoos
#107
just landed in calafate, patagonia. in one month we have gone from the center of the world to the end of the world. searching for a location to stage a special art experience here in november.
heading to buenos aires for the first time in a few days to meet artists and scout locations for
@brtmoments
november experience. looking for ideas and recommendations!
Culmination
#0
is here!
Culmination is my contribution to
@brtmoments
Paris and is a particularly meaningful project for me. It represents the eighth and final project in my Bright Moments tour. A reflection on nearly three years of making art with Bright Moments, Culmination…
100 PRINT was one of my favorite shows.
@bendotk
came to us with the idea of minting 100 outputs first and then let collectors take turns choosing. We created a draft pick format that drove deep engagement with the algorithm. I was so nervous choosing ahead of
@VonMises14
the tokens generate the pixels, the pixels create the experiences, the experiences create the relationships, online and off. thank you for being part of this journey bas. see you soon in venice for the finale.
really proud of this partnership. the first thing we did
@brtmoments
when we started in april 2021 was to buy 3
@Samsungus
tvs, hang them on the walls in portrait mode, and start showing nfts. thank you
@avneron
@agreenberg
@tsella
for all your support. we have come full ⭕️
We are thrilled to partner with
@brtmoments
and share artists' stories and their work with the world through the Samsung Art Store. Check out our partnership and some of the most innovative creators in the digital art world.
quick appreciation thread after an epic week in Paris for
@brtmoments
🇫🇷🥖☕️
such an incredible crew of humans to spend time with + fresh artwork + vibrant convo + rippa food + buuullish vibes 🔥🥳🤍
Back in LA after two months in Argentina, happy to return with Patagonians
#209
, 265, 334 and 368 as new members of my
@crypto_citizens
family. (sound on to hear the generative gaucho glacier music )
After three years, we
@brtmoments
are approaching our 10th and final city mint in Venice, Italy on 4/20. If you want to understand how we got here, I made a playlist of videos that helps to tell our story:
In the future, generative art algorithms will distinguish our interiors without abandoning the crafts of the past. Here is
@jeffgdavis
stained glass reflecting off of
@ArandaLasch
cafe chair, thanks to the magic of
@trameparis
.
We are creating an IRL minting experience in Berlin that will take your breath away. There is no event in April that will inspire you more about crypto, NFTs, or Web3 than what we have in store. Please join us.
What makes CryptoCitizens different from other NFT projects? Yes they are minted IRL, but that is too easy of a catch-all phrase. This is my first, CryptoVenetian
#26
, generated Monday eve, June 21, 2021 at 62 Windward, Venice Beach. 🧵...
1/ Ben Kovach’s is the first show to introduce a draft pick mechanic into an ArtBlocks drop, and in doing so has driven an unprecedented level of engagement with the art works before they have even been collected. 🧵 👇
Fun fact:
@_jzlabs
was one of the first artists to join
@brtmoments
DAO and introduced us to the world of gen art and
@artblocks_io
. My first AB mint was his Light Beams in March, 2021.
It's official: we're going to Buenos Aires! 💃🍷🥩
Join us November 2-5 for the 8th city on the world tour, and our first South American location.
¡Vamos!
i loved this project from the moment i first heard
@annaluciacodes
talk about collaborating with quilters in gee’s bend alabama. gen art can create new versions of old cultures. happy to have minted generation 7
@arsnlart
two years. it has been a real journey minting gen art in ny, berlin, london, mexico city, tokyo, buenos aires, and la. working with
@tylerxhobbs
and his team to bring incomplete control to life in december 2021 at our wooster street gallery was a really important moment.
The CryptoPatagonian show on Saturday defied expectations: 8 hours of decentralized live performance mayhem, held in sync by an on-chain counter of NFT transaction hashes. The interplay between individual artistic expression and coordinated pixel art tableaus was everything.
923 Empty Rooms by
@REAS
is a study of simulation, of how geometric ideas can intersect with different cultures to create physical experiences that are defined by their emptiness.
Some more context about Casey and how much he has meant to us…
1/8
Introducing 923 Empty Rooms by
@REAS
The next official
@artblocks_io
x
@brtmoments
collaboration.
923 Empty Rooms evolves Casey REAS' recent LACMA commission, An Empty Room, into a long form generative art project.
Learn more ↓
FOLIO is a masterpiece. In April 2022,
@mattdesl
emailed that he was interested in "a small exhibition... contemplative rather than too high-energy... some creative ways to go about in-person minting, like punching commands into an old school CRT monitor computer machine."
seems inevitable that long form generative art projects will evolve from abstract snapshots to representational narratives.
@ordinarywillard
’s
#fxhash
drop “southern gothic” is a great example. picked up a few “scenes” today
Incomplete Control was
@tylerxhobbs
first drop after Fidenza. He wanted to do a smaller release set (100 rather than 1,000) which has become a hallmark for
@brtmoments
artist projects ever since. There are no traits, each is a grail.
generative art is an artistic practice, not a file format, a token type, or a protocol. it uses code to create algorithms that output unique works based on randomness. the meta shifts from ico to defi to nft to meme, from eth to tez to sol to btc to base. still gen art.
Loving my
@emilyxxie
"Off Script" mints from last night:
#11
with the monochrome "Absence" palette and
#24
with the Matisse-inspired "Icarus" palette. The minting continues this evening...
@brtmoments
@artblocks_io
In the July of 2022, thanks to
@micolmicolmicol
's Proof of People and
@ICON4860
's tutelage, I went deep down the
@fx_hash_
rabbit hole. My first major purchase was
@pointline_
's Uninhabitable
#2
. I was so happy when she and
@msoriaro
agreed to release new work with us in CDMX…
I have gotten up to the plate and taken a lot of swings over the course of my startup career these past 25 years, and I gotta say that today's stroke felt pretty true. Thank you to an amazing team coming out extraordinary circumstances to create magical experiences.
Please join me this fall IRL in🍎 to mint your own unique CryptoNewYorker NFT. You can buy a Golden Token (GTNY) now to reserve your spot in line:
@brtmoments