London’s artwork scene is again within the highlight subsequent week with the launch of Digital Artwork Week (DAW) (3-10 November), a brand new initiative comprising six free occasions to be held all through the capital. Pledging to carry “digital artwork to the plenty via per week of awe-inspiring shows”, DAW supplies a platform for gamers within the burgeoning NFT and metaverse arenas.
The lavish new Outernet venue on Tottenham Court docket Highway, will likely be one of many primary hubs of the week. It’s right here the nameless Smashtoshi collective will current Artists to Watch (6 November) with exhibiting artists together with Hackatao, Deekay, Paul Milinski and Defaced. “The exhibition has been curated to showcase up and coming digital artists, in addition to among the leaders within the house,” says a web-based assertion.
In the meantime,Verse exhibition (8 November) at Cromwell Place in South Kensington will discover the “topic of gesture in digital artwork observe”, that includes items from the Metaversal assortment, together with works by Sofia Crespo, Tyler Hobbs, Casey Reas and Mathias Isaksen. Metaversal’s web site describes the organisation as buyers in NFTs, artists and entrepreneurs, co-producing “NFT initiatives by connecting our capital to builders throughout the artistic spectrum”.
Nonetheless from Andrés Reisinger Sam Mason’s ANY DAY NOW (2022) Courtesy of the artists and W1 Curates
At W1 Curates on Oxford Road, the digital artist Andrés Reisinger and the movie director Sam Mason current ANY DAY NOW (till 10 November), a brand new digital work “reflecting on life’s cycle and every thing that occurs in between”. Requested if the work is on the market, a spokesperson for the gallery says that “it’s a site-specific public artwork set up”.
In line with the occasion web site, Digital Artwork Week is introduced by six companions together with the crypto artwork large Cozmo de’ Medici and Outlier Ventures, which helps fund Web3 start-ups.
“Close to funding, the venture has been launched by Smashtoshi, a collective with a give attention to bringing the world’s finest digital artwork to the general public. Along with artwork curated by Smashtoshi, Cozomo de’ Medici and [the digital art collector] 33NFT have contributed their collections to be on present. W1 Curates, Outernet and numerous different venues have supplied house for this to be doable,” a venture spokesperson says.
All occasions are free; tickets will likely be allotted by lottery and winners will likely be notified through electronic mail. Additional editions are deliberate for Paris, Lisbon, New York, Miami, Seoul and Tokyo.
