⢠Space name / team name:
NODES+
⢠Name of primary contact:
Prapat Jiwarangsan and Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn
[email protected]
[email protected]
⢠Names of additional Space admins:
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Prapat Jiwarangsan (Thailand), visual artist, NFT artist, and film director.
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Graiwoot Chulphongsathon (Thailand), curator and lecturer in film studies.
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Nampai Anapan (Thailand), Generative artist.
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Eric Booth (Thailand), Founder and Collector at Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand.
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Paradorn Chaiworasilp (Thailand), Founder of NFT and CryptoART Thailand Facebook Page.
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Qenji Yoshida (Japan), Co-director at Tra-Travel/Osaka art hub, Japan.
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DeaGyeom Heo (South Korea), VR artist.
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Ramshiro (Thailand) AI technical consultant.
⢠SuperRare username(s) of everyone who will be a Space admin:
@prapat
@graiwoot
⢠Short bio of you and/or your team:
Prapat Jiwarangsan (Thai) is a visual artist, NFT artist, and film director. Jiwarangsan works with photos, film, and digital images as his creative mediums. Jiwarangsanâs work were exhibited in major global events including the Berlin International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Singapore Biennale.
Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn (Thai) is a curator and lecturer in Film Studies at Chulalongkorn University. His online and offline curatorial shows were exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore (Singapore), the Kyoto Art Museum (Japan), the Berwick Film Festival (UK), and the Close-Up Film Center (UK).
Nampai Anapan (Thai) is a generative artist and sound artist. She is a fresh young artist who has collaborated on many NFT projects.
Eric Booth (Thai) is the founder and collector of the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Booth has been collecting the work of contemporary artists for decades. He founded MAIIAM, a state-of-the-art museum in the northern part of Thailand, as well as several museums and art centers in other parts of Thailand. His museums exhibit important contemporary works and play a role in supporting many artists in Southeast Asia. Booth is an advisor to our space.
Paradorn Chaiworasilp (Thai) is the founder of NFT and Crypto Art Thailand Facebook Page. The page is the largest NFT FB page in Southeast Asia, with 170,000 followers. Chaiworasilp is an advisor to our space.
Qenji Yoshida (Japan) is an artist and co-director of the Tra-Travel/Osaka Art Hub in Japan. His art space regularly showcases art on Asian themes and social issues related to people in this region.
DeaGyeom Heo (S. Korea) is a VR artist and PhD researcher. His VR work is exhibited in many places, both in Korea and abroad.
⢠Website & Social Media Links:
https://twitter.com/PrapatStudio
https://www.maiiam.com/
https://www.prapat-jiwarangsan.com/
Tra-Travel/Osaka Art Hub facebook
NFT and Cryptoart Thailand facebook
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum facebook
Vrtopos (by VR artist DaeGyeon Heo) facebook
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/maiiam_art_museum/
Prapat Jiwarangsan Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/prapat.jiwarangsan/
VR artist DaeGyeon Heo Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/memoryworker/
⢠Summary/manifesto of your Space. What is the unique value prop / elevator pitch? What type of art will you focus on? How will your Space stand out among the crowd?
NODES+ is a space founded by a group of artists, curators, and collectors from Asia. Our founding members come from various art disciplines, from NFT, to fine arts, film, sound, AI and VR. We work to champion Asian NFT artists to be accepted by the NFT world market. We also bring artists from different continents to work together. We love experimenting and we believe in de-centralization. Since we have expertise in each field, we will choose work from various perspectives and ways of thinking. Our core idea is to "break nationality", which will be a running theme in every exhibition and project. More importantly, we will use AI to curate artwork.
We have a unique process of curations and exhibitions. In every exhibition, we will start by creating a list of artists from different continents. Next, we will use AI to pair the artists together, one from Asia, the other from the non-Asian continent. After that, we ask the artists to collaborate with each other. The fun and unique part is that, after the two artists produce their own works separately, we will use AI to generate the new work based on the two works, resulting in the third work. And in our exhibition, we will only show the work that resulted from the AI-generated process. But when the collector purchases the AI-generated work, the collector will receive the other two works as well. In our exhibition, the audience will only see the AI-generated work. The original prototype will be veiled. Only after the collector buys the AI-generated work, then the two original works will be âunveiledâ to the audience.
We strongly believe in this process, that it is creative, challenging, entertaining and unpredictable!
⢠Describe you/your teamâs experience curating and promoting artwork:
Weâve all been in the arts for a long time. We have different experience in each field, but there is one thing we are interested in: the emergence of NFT. We believe that it has already changed the art industry and it is the future of artworld. So we have come together to pitch this proposal.
We have worked together in many international exhibitions, by curating the work together mainly in three countries, namely Thailand, Japan and Korea. Yet, we also have networks with artists and curators in other Asian countries, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Mainland China, all of which are places that have artists and collectors to invest in NFT trading.
We work online, but we also plan to work with offline events. We plan to create an offline event with MAIIAM Museum, a contemporary museum in Thailand, and we have Eric Booth, the MAIIAM founder, as our advisor. The museum is strongly interested in NFT, and we hope that, if selected, we will be the ones who start creating a link between major museums in Asia and Superrare.
We also have TRA-Travel/Osaka Art Hub, as our partner in Japan. There, the hub has participated in curating events for Asian artists to perform in exhibitions many times. The place serves as our gateway to Japanese digital and media artists. Because many NFT arts are inspired by Japanese manga and animations, we believe we will seek out some of the most innovative and up-and-coming Japanese artists to collaborate with. Moreover, we also have strong contact with the VR world in South Korea, where we hope to have a special project that will connect VR with NFT.
We are supported by the NFT and Crypto Art Thailand Facebook Page, which has over 170,000 followers, all of them creators, artists and collectors from various nationalities. We will invite innovative artists from this FB page to participate in the event, as well as the collectors.
⢠Describe you/your teamâs experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc.
All of our team members have experience in organising exhibitions, selling art, and running art events online and offline in an Asian context. We host a talk in twitterâs space, clubhouse, and discord for Asian artists and collectors. In the future, we will try to create real events related to NFT, including fairs, sales, auctions, in each country where we have members. We also intend to buy land in Metaverse to display the works in our program.
Each member of the group has a strong record of networking with collectors and organising exhibitions. Here are some of their experiences.
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum was recently awarded the Best Asian Pacific New Museum of the Year by the Leading Cultural Destination (LCD) Awards. The museum has rotating exhibitions every half year, and several temporary exhibitions each year. The museum has a decentralizing policy by inviting curators from many countries to curate each exhibition. We have a good relationship with the museum as our project is advised by Eric Booth, the founder and avid art collector. Booth is one of the most important collectors in Asia. He has collected the works and continually funded and promoted Asian artists for decades. The museum also has a strong network with many international art centers in Asia.
TRA-Travel/Osaka Art Hub, Japan has experience in organizing art events in Japan. It has a strong network connected to many museums in Japan, such as the Kyoto Art Center and museums in Osaka and Tokyo. It has a good record of gathering artists from various fields and nationalities to work together. The group is very interested in and following the developments of NFT at the moment.
Even though it opened earlier this year, the NFT and Crypto Art Thailand Facebook Page is the largest NFT ART Page in Asia, with more than 170000 followers. It will soon reach 200,000 people before the end of this year. The page founder, Paradorn Chaiworasilp, is an advisor to our space, as well as an avid NFT collector. Many people find success on this page. The page is also a place to exchange experiences and updates in NFT circles for collectors, especially in an Asian context.
Examples of past works
VRtospos Media Wall Redirecting...
Arena VR Exhibition Redirecting...
Group Exhibition at Kyoto Art Center, Japan https://www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/27485/?fbclid=IwAR1YfFINdER08yD0Nb57H84sUfMXSqMUWpbxCdWANJBX1O_z6CvEZRlP4jc
Online Exhibition at Kyoto Art Center, Japan https://www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/29666/?fbclid=IwAR0Ejn7-QDDnPs1ifc3DcBjIfjyarG5-hAqwf7YgwdAxfFnLfMPOMzFBaYA
Exhibition at MAIIAM Musuem Thailand DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia | MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Screening the Forest, a screening programme at the Berwick Film and Media Art Festival
Earth as History: Moving Images and Ecologies in Southeast Asia @ Close-Up Film Center
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2018/earth-as-history-moving-images-and-ecologies-in-southeast-asia/
Exhibition at Singapore Art Biennale https://www.singaporebiennale.org/api/uploads/files/originals/0a775253-a73a-5a53-bd49-59506f13a382.pdf
A review of an exhibition in Rotterdam https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/blackout-iffr-slide-projectors-art
An artwork exhibited at the Berlinale | Berlinale | Archive - Ploy
⢠Are there new artists youâd like to bring into the Space in the first six months? What is your relationship to them?
We have a selection team from Thailand, Korea, and Japan, where each curator selects artists in Asia with outstanding NFTs and good trading volumes. On the other hand, we will have an open call for artists from around the world to participate in the selection program. We see that the Asian market is becoming interesting and has large room to grow since investors in Asia have the potential to invest in this market in the future.
Currently, we have a list of artists from our scouters for the first six months. Our interactions with the artists vary in intensity. Some of them we have made contact with a positive reaction. For others, we secretly observe their movements.
⢠Are there any artists already in the CryptoArt space that you are planning to work with for this Space? Have they committed to participating yet?
Some have already agreed. and some are in the negotiating process. For the Asian artists that we will select in this first round, we think they will all say yes to us because our group has a good profile, a unique concept, a combination of fine art and NFT art, and there is no group like us in the Asian NFT Community.
Here is a sample of the selected artists that we want to work with:
Selected by Tomo Suzuki, film producer , Japan
Aimi Sekiguchi Aimi Sekiguchi -VR official Site-
Sputniko! https://sputniko.com/
Kazuki Takakura https://takakurakazuki.com/
Rhizomatiks https://nft.rhizomatiks.com/
Selected by Jenifer K.Y. Lam, curator, SIngapore
Debbie Ding https://dbbd.sg
Urich lau Login ⢠Instagram
Yeo shih yun The Art of Yeo Shih Yun
daryl goh About â Daryl Goh
eugene soh https://www.dude.sg/
Selected by Qenji Yoshida, artist and curator, japan
Kai Maetani https://www.kaimaetani.com/
Masanori Matsuda http://masanorimatsuda.net/
Yukawa-Nakayasu http://yukawanakayasu.net/
Selected by Woojin Kim, artist, South korea
Yeom Jihye Ji Hye Yeom / ěźě§í - Ji Hye Yeom
Son Kwangju http://www.ksonimage.com
Kim Woojin http://www.woojinkim.net
Selected by Daegyoem Heo, VR artist, South korea.
Yeondoo Jung http://www.koreanartistproject.com/eng_artist.art?method=artistView&auth_reg_no=31&flag=artist
AYOUNG kim http://ayoungkim.com/wp/
Kyungwoo Han https://kyungwoohan.wixsite.com/kyungwoohan/video-1
Wan lee http://www.leewanstudio.com/cv/
Selected by Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, curator, Thailand
LemonâŚpie.studio IG: Login ⢠Instagram
Tu illustratu Login ⢠Instagram
Piyarat Piyapongwiwat Login ⢠Instagram
PrapatStudio Login ⢠Instagram
⢠Please provide any additional details you can about how you plan to operate this Space; e.g. cadence of exhibitions, auction strategy, number of artworks, other ideas for promoting your art and artists, etc.
For Superrare, the exhibition must be distinct and unlike any other place. We donât want the exhibition to look like a traditional NFT market. will collaborate with the artist and AI on a mission to âbreak nationalityâ. We use AI in the selecting process as well as the generating process. It is our way of de-centering human bias by bringing the best brains of the machine.
Our detailed curatorial process is like this:
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We will invite a number of selected Asian artists, as well as hold an open call for artists from all over the world. We accept a variety of genres (such as graphic, performance, 3D object, photography), on the condition that the sample work submitted must be in jpg and mp4 only.
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From the submitted selections, we (humans) will choose 40 artists. 20 of them are from Asia. The rest is from non-Asian regions.
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We will pair the artists into 20 pairs using artificial intelligence. Each pair must have artists from different continents, in order to âbreak the nationalityâ and reduce the border of the art. The artist who works with the same genre will be paired together. The artists discuss the concept of the work. After that, they will create the work separately. This means that each pair must produce two pieces. In total, we will get 40 pieces of work.
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Then, we will let AI generate the work of each pair. The outcome is the new work. In total, we will get 20 new pieces from the generating process. We will show these 20 new generated works in our exhibition. The original 40 works will be veiled from the audience. When a collector purchases the generated work, he/she will receive the other 2 original works for free. In this process, the 2 original works will be unveiled to the audience to see as well.
We will use this process in the preliminary step so the audience/collector/artist can remember the core idea of our group. We will improve the AI and command it differently each time. In the future, we plan to introduce VR as a factor for thinking and exhibiting the work.
The exhibition will be held every 2 months.
⢠How do you plan to structure commission rates for the artists who release in your Space?
70% Artist
25% NODES+
5% SuperRare DAO
(The structure is provisional and needs to be discussed case by case with the artists).
⢠To you, what is the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology? Where do you see the NFT and CryptoArt space in five years?
In every question youâve asked, our team likes this one the most. We intend to champion unique NFT artworks so that the artist can develop their future work in parallel with the development of the platform used to showcase and sell the work.
What makes people in the physical art market so attracted to NFT art is the fact that its sales are as high as physical art on the global market, causing people to plunge into the NFT world hungry. The phenomenon has become a time of gold mining for people of all professions, since the NFT world allows everyone, every occupation, and every nationality to participate. The NFT community has reduced the hierarchy, mainly found in the physical art world. It also de-centers the power of the art worldâs gatekeepers, fine art curators and galleries, as they are not the only ones who control access to the art world anymore.
The idea of de-centering the old power is so promising and opens the artworld to new possibility. The time we live in is similar to the time in which modern art was subverted and shaken by pop art and postmodernism. Soon, all art schools will need to include NFT101 in their curriculum. NFT and metaverse will become a part of the history of art, taught to the next generation of students, or even children. Of course, this phenomenon is not just about selling artwork, but it is more about changing the art worldâs infrastructure. We should think of the ways in which the system in the art world has finally found a way to evolve and become sustainable. We strongly believe that in the next 5 years, the crypto world will be a part of a ânew normalâ ÂŹÂŹâ a parallel to the physical world we live in. In the next 10 years, all daily transactions will migrate to that world. Because people will finally realize the way to break free from the monopoly of capitalist players from the old world.
The parallel worldsâbetween the crypto world and the physical worldâwill be developed and have multiple dimensions and layers, and we humans will be able to choose to exist in each dimension and take action in a specific space and time. To purchase an artwork in the future can be a point-to-point succession to infinity. For example, the work is purchased from one place. After that, it can become something else that has the same value as the new piece in another place or many other places, endlessly. AI will play a more important role in this development, but we need to realize the benefit of both AI thinking and human thinking, specifically in the realm of aesthetics. How will we work with AI in the future? This will be an interesting turning point from now on.
The type of work that can continue in the future must be more unique and be able to connect, in a way, with both the crypto and physical worlds. The work that plays only with volume and is still hoping to dig gold from the same collector will remain. But it has almost nothing to add value. The word unique, in our context, means the ability to be related to a particular system and the work that carries the promise of something new. It will link with a particular structure and create utility. It will learn from the old work, but it will evolve and set a new standard. The unique-ness can come from the collaboration between many sectors, from both humans, AI, and other possibilities. It will break all borders. Ultimately, the word âartâ doesnât need to be defined after NFT because the work in the system is something on its own.
Other than selling work, space â ours and othersâ â must serve multiple functions. It must become a storehouse of knowledge and an archive of NFT history. Every space competes to be the new worldâs guardian of history. Each platform selects the tasks and concepts that are appropriate for that platform. The artwork itself identifies the platform where it should belong to. Finally, the new system of the world will exclude people and artwork that are not compatible with any system as well.
⢠If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why?
We will let AI generate this food or drink for us. We still donât know what it is. We just put in a command and let AI learn from our personality.
⢠Anything else youâd like the community to consider?
We are from Asia and we see that the NFT Asian community is expanding rapidly and has a gigantic room to grow. We hope you open this opportunity for us because we want to test our concept and want to bring you the best artists and artworks. We will continue to do the same â give opportunities to other artists. We will grow together.
We are a small group gathered together by art workers in different fields. We are not an established commercial gallery who have already signed contracts with artists. This means we are ready to dare to do something new and open to new people. NFT art is not just about trading or being in the business world, but it must be coupled with progress in every sense of the word. We will not stop. We will open ways to the future. There is a new world ahead of us.