The 'Decentralized Futures' exhibition will present the creative possibilities, technologies such as blockchain and NFTs offer in digital art. The works of 8 international artists and designers present the possibilities for the future development of the decentralised technologies and (art) market.
Contextualising the Urgency
The art and design works presented at the exhibition are outcomes of the ARTeCHÓ project, co-funded by the European Union. Traditionally, digital art and design works faced challenges in entering the market because they did not meet a fundamental requirement for creating value chains in art: the uniqueness of the work and the exclusivity of ownership. This requirement disappeared when mechanical reproduction became possible. However, the emergence of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) has altered this landscape by providing artificial scarcity and adding uniqueness to naturally multiply digital creations.
Beyond the NFT's
The ARTeCHÓ project’s starting point is the NFT’s, but the creations go beyond this framework. The works speak to us about contemporary society from the perspective of extension and network, pointing out what other things we can do with this technology. The artists and designers delved into decentralisation and redistribution, uniqueness and horizontality. These distributed futures allow us to modify the nature of the relationships between different agents when making decisions, distributing assets, involving participants in a collective project or considering ecosystems. The artists' and designers' works apply new technologies to respond to the environmental, political, social, and economic issues we face today. They explored new, decentralised modes of socio-political organization and resource management, hoping to help the audience imagine more equitable and inclusive futures.
The exhibition is hosted at Koelhuis District Eindhoven
Koelhuis District Eindhoven is transforming into a vibrant cultural district where Immersive Experiences (IX), new media art and contemporary culture collide. During Dutch Design Week 2024, they offer a stage to talented artist and makers, who uniquely reflect on the rapidly advancing digitalization and its impact on society. They challenge you to explore new ways of storytelling, implications of AI and experience the limits of immersivity.