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Week 9: Final Modularium Genesis project 'The Master of Mountains' by @JoshuaDavis on @Highlight_xyz Tomorrow, 26th September 11AM ET 0.5 TIA Open Edition for 5 days ...and then [Modularium] ascends... modularium.art

we've got L2s built for art but when an L2 built as art? like Sam Hart says, blockchains are social sculptures what could it look like to take this idea and really run with it?

'Prompt Baby' is an intimate drop of 69 one-of-a-kind prompted works. Since June 2023, Friend has been working on ways to circumvent the nsfw filters on diffusion networks and fine tuning them on images of herself. For this series, each work is initially sold with a blank placeholder image. The collector then submits a prompt to the artist (see images). Beyond that each prompt will be pre-pended with the phrase, ""A photo of Sarah Friend"" and the collector is free to request any kind of image. The artist then has the choice to accept, reject, or request modifications of the prompt. This is an opportunity for the artist and collector to collaborate, explore consent and identity, and model an alternative to the harmful proliferation of deepfakes. Prompts open tomorrow.

Forma's first FULLY onchain mint, "Feuiller La Marguerite", is live! 🌼 0.1 TIA per mint 48 hr open edition No whitelist 5 mint max per tx modularium.art/ Lets dig into what makes this mint unique 👇

Giving a 20 minute chaos talk at today’s Modular Summit at 11:40est After NFTs: Network Art & the Third Era For decades the internet has been the most important Art City, despite incumbent trad institution ostrichcore molasses & neglect. These vessels (not fit to surf computation’s civilizational dissolve) betray the theoretical weight of what their brands are meant to represent, and what their role could be when in the golden flight of their history and promise. However, now, a Computing Artist finally has a proper city, surface, and site for serious career. One can fully route around the 20th century art bureaucracies should one need or choose. An Artist can be the puck, wait for the rest of the world to inevitably arrive, and have a promising chance at making an alright living in the process We have decentralish networks that express tradable value, via credibly long-term runtimes for programs. Thus a site for drastically new kinds of Artworks and Art Worlds As of recently, Our graphing calculator cultural settlement layer is fruiting with vast art supplies for new classes of verifiable programs <-> cryptoeconomic patterns. What alien Ways of Seeing can this era of Network Art enact unto the human psyche? How many Impressionisms are just sitting there for the taking? Could they ricochet into a capital R Renaissance? If Art History gets genuinely ripped open again, could it be a grand salve for the 2020s blight of Gamestop despair nihilism & the bellcurve meme cynicism funeral dirge marching order? As suites of ZK gadgets get staged to restructure identity and how humans pronounce-conceive of themselves… what is the duty of the archetype of Artist? What were NFTs, and do the glimmers of art & cryptocurrency before them give hint to their aftermath? What are society’s most pressing questions as biology and computation accelerate in intersection, and how might this relate to the above? Join for 20 dense chaotic minutes of improvisational thinking around these topics