Drinks & Snacks will be provided.
Walter Langelaar speaks about his latest project with crypto art&design research lab co-de.fi
VTLK.xyz takes its base material from a 3D scanned pointcloud file created with Vitalik Buterin back in 2017, when he was visiting Aotearoa New Zealand. Consisting of over 420K points, this dataset is now tokenized via pre-signed voucher structs (i.e. ‘lazy minting’) that can be redeemed/minted by the NFT buyer; creating a gradual, community driven, inscription of this object onto the Ethereum blockchain.
The project comments on the art-historical context of the buste as a medium for transport and acquisition, as well as more contemporary concerns such as fractionalized ownership structures and inclusive cultural participation.
VTLK.xyz was made possible through support of Creative New Zealand
ABOUT Walter Langelaar
Walter Langelaar is an Aotearoan artist/activist, originally from the Netherlands, now based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara where he is an academic at Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington.
His work in media arts and computational design questions our digitally networked cultures and infrastructure through artistic critique in varying dimensions, such as sculpture, installation, online performance and critical intervention. Walter's projects are shown in numerous venues across international media arts scenes including Transmediale and CTM (Berlin), Videotage (Hong Kong), Medialab Prado (Madrid), DEAF and v2 (Rotterdam), FILE Festival (Sao Paulo), Ars Electronica (Linz), and Piksel.no (Bergen) – and in parallel to his artistic outputs he also maintains an international profile as a curator/compiler, having produced exhibitions and events for Planetart (Amsterdam), BabyCastles (NYC), iMAL (Brussels), MuseumsQuartier (Vienna), Montevideo/NiMK (Amsterdam), and the Adam Art Gallery (Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington).
Currently, he is the curator/producer of p0.nz/i gallery.