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100 unique NFTs from the future to never before

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The Probability Beyond

Ask anyone what they think about art and the response will be for certain, unmistakably, guaranteed, a mix of perceptions based in the past. Some will counter that new technologies such as NFTs, VR, AI, and web3 decentralization answer the call for innovation but why stop there? Hereafter The Art seeks answers from the future. Are we granted “free will” or governed by powers unknown? Can we possibly predict the future of art? Is it folly to try?

This is an open call in a global search for 100 artists. Diversity is paramount as this quest is universal in scope. Each artist will look beyond their “normal” sphere of creativity and speculate on the future of art. In doing so, each will create one NFT comprised of two parts, a self-portrait and an essay. The essay portion of each NFT will be sealed in a virtual time capsule as a letter to/from the future. The NFT holders will have the option to reveal (or not reveal) the time capsule contents up to a point. However, all time capsules will open automatically and randomly in one to five years. This is a chance to rewrite the “rules” on art and explore the limits of human imagination. Are you in?

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We invite you to think freely about what art is and what it might become. Together let’s acknowledge the power of art and explore the very definition of art, both now and hereafter.

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Distinguished Participants

The following artists represent an array of skills and accomplishments. They are diverse but this project finds them with a common goal to make predictions on the future of art. A 1/1 NFT by each will be featured at the first IRL exhibition & first mint wave.

Kalmyk/usa

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, literary artist, AI researcher, and author of the “instant techno-classic” Technelegy, as well as co-founder of theVERSEverse. A pioneer of algorithmic authorship, blockchain poetics and publishing innovation, Stiles became the first writer to bring AI-powered literature to a major auction house when her poem, “COMPLETION: When it’s just you,” sold at Christie’s in 2022. Recent honors include a Future Art Award, nominations for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and finalist status for the Christopher Smart Prize and Palette Emerging Poet Prize. Stiles has been invited to speak at Art Basel, The Brooklyn Museum, SXSW, Digilogue Istanbul, the Ai4 Summit, Miami Art Week, NFT.NYC and VCA Invites: London, and has exhibited at venues around the globe including Annka Kultys Gallery, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Art Cologne, SuperRare Gallery, SCOPE Art Show, Superchief Gallery, the Carousel de Louvre, New York Fashion Week, the billboards of Shibuya, Tokyo, virtual Times Square, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Stiles has served as Poetry Mentor to the humanoid android BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.

Sasha Stiles

Kalmyk/USA

Lithuania

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, literary artist, AI researcher, and author of the “instant techno-classic” Technelegy, as well as co-founder of theVERSEverse. A pioneer of algorithmic authorship, blockchain poetics and publishing innovation, Stiles became the first writer to bring AI-powered literature to a major auction house when her poem, “COMPLETION: When it’s just you,” sold at Christie’s in 2022. Recent honors include a Future Art Award, nominations for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and finalist status for the Christopher Smart Prize and Palette Emerging Poet Prize. Stiles has been invited to speak at Art Basel, The Brooklyn Museum, SXSW, Digilogue Istanbul, the Ai4 Summit, Miami Art Week, NFT.NYC and VCA Invites: London, and has exhibited at venues around the globe including Annka Kultys Gallery, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Art Cologne, SuperRare Gallery, SCOPE Art Show, Superchief Gallery, the Carousel de Louvre, New York Fashion Week, the billboards of Shibuya, Tokyo, virtual Times Square, and elsewhere. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Stiles has served as Poetry Mentor to the humanoid android BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.

Ivona Tau

Lithuanina

Bay Backner
Great Britain

Bay Backner is an artist working at the intersection of fine art and metaverse technologies. The theme of digital identity vs sociocultural identity is central to Bay’s work. Her pieces use oil paint, AI and metaverse installations to pull cultural archetypes into the exploratory space between physical and digital worlds. In her ongoing body of work on ‘the muse’, she paints real-life portraits of her ‘muses’ – women she has generated using AI technology – then disrupts their images through digital-physical interventions. Bay sees this as a way to disrupt her own relationship with the legacy muse-artist narrative.

Bay is co-founder of Vueltta, an international art collective producing immersive installations in the Decentraland metaverse. In 2022, her work was featured by Metaverse Art Week, NFT Show Europe, NFT Liverpool, ETH Barcelona and The Financial Times Digital Asset Summit. Bay has been active in decentralized technology since 2006, when she produced the first conference on open source mobile software in Silicon Valley. She still regularly consults on metaverse and web3 growth strategy for brands including DeFi ICOs, NFT platforms, social protocols and decentralised social enterprise. Bay both creates and collects NFTs on the Tezos and Polygon chains. As a collector, she focuses on emerging women artists, and her own work was selected for the Women’s Museum’s genesis NFT collection.

Bay Backner

GREAT BRITAIN

Kenny Schachter
USA

Forming a career through critiquing elitist rules of the art world, artist, art dealer, curator, writer, and critic Kenny Schacher navigates the monetary circulation of art in his work. Maintaining the role of both an insider and outsider in the contemporary art world, Schachter offers what he calls a different, atypical viewpoint of the art world as a person who didn’t learn its systems, including the secretive relationships, pricing, and silence. Through his work, Schachter makes clear the machinations of the art market, disintegrating the barriers for people not on the inside. Influenced by artists like Paul Thek and Vito Acconci, Schachter humorously exposes the good, bad, and ugly nature of the business with blunt candor in works like The Larry Joke (2018). He incorporates humor to direct stark critiques and subvert the seriousness that the art world upholds in an unpretentious manner.

Kenny Schachter

USA

The goal of this project is to reflect on art that transcends convenient boundaries including the very limits of human existence. This is a seminal project. It will attempt to examine art within the cosmos of creative forces. It will establish a collective benchmark locked in the blockchain, a reference point for generations to come.

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Team

Richard

Klocke

Co-founder

Richard is an artist much like any artist with a sense of adventure and a will to explore, until you consider his preternatural belief in the creative potential. Most of his professional career has been associated with museums. There were 20 years of history museums with emphasis on the past and 21 years of looking to the future while the Exhibits Manager at the Spencer Museum of Art. Hereafter The Art is in many ways the culmination of these experiences.

Jana

Kubátová

Co-founder

Jana graduated from Arts Management. For 10 years, she has been producing solo and collective exhibitions and multi-genre projects under the NGO Inter-Art. For 6 years, she has been a project manager and copywriter in leading Prague creative & digital studios. Her expertise is mainly in curatorship, conceptualization and copywriting. She is co-founder of digital art collective NFTense and NFT collection The Divergents.

Lukáš

Bartoň

Graphic designer

Lukáš graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Architecture. He is a graphic designer passionate about working on creative projects. In 2020, he launched the online project Obrazohled, which sells original art prints from both emerging and established Czech and Slovak contemporary artists under curatorial supervision. Lukáš is passionate about his art installation "Rozbřesk” (Sunrise), a personal celebration of plants, light, sounds and darkness.

Vojtěch

Rychnovský

Full Stack Developer

Vojtěch is a co-founder and the driving force behind Artiffine's development. He is an experienced full stack developer in everything from blockchain to backend to React and UX/UI, and seamlessly manifests project visions into reality.

Jan

Zibner

Legal specialist

Jan is a co-founder and legal specialist at Artiffine. As a Ph.D. in IT/IP law, he focuses on licensing schemes, compliance, and all related legal agenda. He also addresses these issues on a high level as part of the Harvard NFT Task Force.

Martin

Půlpán

Web3 Expert

Martin is the CEO and co-founder of Artiffine. He leads the company, shapes its direction, and is the driving force behind its vision. He has been actively involved in web3 since 2020 and has helped launch hundreds of successful projects.

Michelle

Rennerová

Curator

Michelle is a curator, visual artist and academic researcher. She has curated several web3 projects as well as co-curated an international art exhibition Prague Biennale. In her artistic practice she is focused on new media, combining analog and digital art. As a researcher she is currently engaged in a research on Synesthetic Experience from Immersive Art Exhibitions.

Are you interested in working with us as a curator, art theorist or supporter?
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