Q1. Space name / team name:
NFT Asia
Q2. Name of primary contact:
Willea Zwey
Q3. Names of additional Space admins:
JonSaysRelax, Shavonnewong, Ernest Wu, Zenavi, SpeakCryptic
Q4. SuperRare username(s) of everyone who will be a Space admin:
JonSaysRelax, Shavonnewong, WillZwey, ArtByNafay, Zenavi, SpeakCryptic, Eriharigai, Nightjarr, Ernestwu, Rociel, Claracxw
Q5. Short bio of you and/or your team:
NFT Asia is an open and inclusive community centered on uplifting Asian and Asia-based artists and creatives. Founded by a team of artists and arts workers sitting across the traditional and digital art worlds, we are focused on sharing resources, creating opportunities and fostering close connections. Since we started in March 2021, we now have around 3700 members on Discord and nearly 13,000 followers on Twitter, growing exponentially everyday.
Q6. Website & Social Media Links:
Discord: discord.gg/nftasia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nft_asia
Instagram: Login ⢠Instagram
Q7. 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?
NFT Asiaâs Space will be the premier NFT destination for Asian and Asia-based artists to showcase the highest standards of art that is not only aesthetic but responds to the cultural zeitgeist. Through our strong engagement and access to artists who are in different stages of their career including those that are emerging and looking for a premier platform to showcase and mint their work, the Space will be uniquely positioned to raise awareness by highlighting the underrepresented and also present the diversity of art styles and themes within the community.
Q8. Describe you/your teamâs experience curating and promoting artwork:
As a team, NFT Asia has been organising community events and Twitter campaigns regularly since March 2021 to promote artists and artworks. We have supported numerous drop parties, artist talks, working closely with individual collectors within the Discord to advise on their private exhibitions.
And lately we have been actively branching into IRL events - we have been invited by curator Chris Fussner to apply for Art Dubai 2022 and was successful in our application! We also successfully conducted a fundraiser which was executed entirely by the core team and have raised funds for covering the expense of the participation of the event as well as initiating our community treasury.
Beyond conventional modes of exhibition, we have demonstrated our curatorial efforts through various artist spotlight sessions that have directly and indirectly resulted in artwork sales. In the past two months, our team member, Ninaad Kothawade, has led weekly campaigns for our Twitter and Discord, selecting artworks based on our online submissions to feature emerging artistsâ works on our sites. Speak Cryptic, another member of the team, has been building an independent resource, NFT Asia Directory, which features talented artists active within the community. The Directory is developed specifically with the aim of highlighting committed and promising artists to collectors and connoisseurs.
We have been actively promoting artwork sales of our members through various initiatives, such as working with Try Showtime on a weekly campaign to highlight Asian artists. We curated a list of artists from Singapore/Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Indian/Pakistan, Rest of Asia (and beyond) to spotlight talented artists from these locations. These included Twitter campaigns and artists talks.
https://twitter.com/tryShowtime/status/1436289545876742144?s=20 https://twitter.com/nft_asia/status/1438082118559567882?s=20
Through our strong engagement with the community, we hold regular Twitter Spaces on âUnspoken Rules in NFTsâ, we hold pitch sessions for artists to practice and build confidence, we also conduct workshops on various topics such as âHow to Write About Your Artâ, specifically aimed to empower artists. Thus, we are often the first stop for emerging artists to dip their toes into NFTs, and a valuable space that successful artists also continuously return to.
Q9. Describe you/your teamâs experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc.
Our effort to promote and spotlight asian artists comes in various ways: as NFT Asia and members of the team, we participate in global events, both physical and online. As one of the invited participants in this yearâs Art Dubai Fair, we have been actively working on an exhibition curated by our core team. We also have supported several collector exhibitions such as @Bittm and @ArchanNairâs Horizon exhibition through facilitating the selection process and providing curatorial advice. We also work with platforms like Tryshowtime to highlight artists from selected regions across Asia and the rest of the world.
Clara, one of the team members leading the Space, leads a robust art programme and is the main curator for a contemporary art space in Singapore. In her role, she curates exhibitions, manages artist and collector relations, brokers artwork sales in partnership with commercial galleries, and provides arts consultancy services for HNW individuals. She is also working on a premier physical NFT exhibition, exhibiting the works of Robert Alice, Tyler Hobbs, and more. She has worked at the 58th Venice Biennale and Christieâs New York.
While we have yet to officially broker artwork sales, we have worked closely to advise collectors and investors with whom we have close relationships, introducing them to talented artists within our Discord and Twitter community. Collectors have regularly approached us to collaborate or to invest in artists within the NFT Asia community, thanks to the genuine connections and relationships we have built with stakeholders across the ecosystem. A fellow team member, Zenavi, is part of the Collectors Roundtable on Twitter Spaces and is also an illustrator, lecturer and communications specialist. JonSaysRelax is a visual artist who has organised independent art shows as well as being a lecturer in a Singaporean Arts College. Many other members such as Speak Cryptic, an artist who has exhibited all over the world are also part of the team who are active practitioners with many years of experience in the various sectors of the arts.
Q10. Are there new artists youâd like to bring into the Space in the first six months? What is your relationship to them?
Yes, we are constantly making connections with new talented artists, as the central ecosystem for NFT artists in Asia. Our members are also well connected in traditional arts ecosystems across many countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, Japan,South Korea, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and more. We would like to collaborate with traditional galleries and work with them to bring on more artists from the traditional art space, harnessing our connections in that space. NFT Asia has also grown rapidly and we have been assisting community members who are either new artists or traditional artists who might be curious about the NFT Space. We have provided resources for onboarding onto various platforms as well as shared our experience through resource channels and panel discussions. In the first few months we are planning to bring on a group of selected up-and-coming asian artists whose art has distinguished styles from both of the traditional and digital art worlds.
Q11. 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?
We have many talented emerging and established artists in the NFT Asia community who seek for and deserve exposure and spotlight in the NFT space, with whom we would especially like to work with and onboard onto our Space. We are establishing strategies for the onboarding process and will communicate with a group of artists we have in mind once our application of space is coming through.We have received a lot of interests from our community members for working together - for our first season of curation, we look forward to go through a list of artists and have a roaster for each future exhibition according to the curated themes.
Q12. 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.
We plan to organise several exhibitions of the artists in our Space throughout the year featuring different themes and critical or aesthetical explorations. We aim to bring on a new group of artists every season and our team will host promotional events and discussions surrounding the works that will be minted. These could be panels on Twitter Spaces that can boost the awareness and exposure for the artists. Details such as the number of artworks and auction strategies will be established differently in every exhibition to be specific with the theme and to customise it for the artists during each event.
Q13. How do you plan to structure commission rates for the artists who release in your Space?
Our team will take a 10% commission fee, and a part of that will go to a public fund that reinvests back into our community.
Q14. To you, what is the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology? Where do you see the NFT and CryptoArt space in five years?
NFTs have introduced an important paradigm shift to the global arts and cultural economy. It has created a digital-native ecosystem for artists and independent creators to be able to claim proper ownership over their artworks through smart contracts, and with it, introducing programme scarcity that enables an active market surrounding digital art. Whether one is a skeptic or a staunch supporter of NFTs, it is impossible to deny that NFTs have changed the way we look at JPEGs forever.
With this, we are very bullish on the future of NFTs and believe that the economy will only continue to grow as mainstream adoption accelerates. And we will continue to be a welcoming space for NFT artists to be introduced to the community, build skills and resources and form lasting relationships with fellow artists, creatives and collectors. We aim to foster trust within a trustless system, filled with care and empathy for each other that is sorely needed. To also look at how we can create new ways of seeing when it comes to creating and collecting artworks.
Q15. If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why?
A stew with a little bit of everything in it. We consider our focus on diversity our main selling point that makes us extremely delicious. You never know what flavours you might experience and fall in love with next.
Q16. Anything else youâd like the community to consider?
We are working towards building a gallery space in the metaverse to showcase our exhibitions simultaneously. We believe it will not only drive traffic for the Space but also provides an elevated viewing experience for our artists, collectors and audiences.
Space name / team name: Flood District Studios
Name and email of primary contact: Henry Case, [email protected]
Names of additional Space admins: @nilotech @Architect
SuperRare username(s) of everyone involved with your Space:
@nilotech @Architect
Short bio of you and your team:
We are the flooded district; we drive creation in the blended Space of Crypto/AI/Human works of art. A group of 99 focused on developing artistic talent for AI/Human blended artwork, NFT PFP enhancement and game design. We work with tools and methods to push the boundaries across AI and Human interpretation of the visual and audio arts.
We partner with Pixelmind/Tokenly as one of our passionate backers of the ambitions who are working with us to co-develop and operate the Space.
Website & Social Media Links:
https://twitter.com/mischiefcouncil
Summary/manifesto of your Space (~500 words).
The Flooded District is a guild of Crypto enthusiasts to provide a community source of artistic development in the visual, audio, game, code fields. 70% of the community are contributing to collaborations as artists in-house. Style, content and delivery offer unique representations of moments in storytelling. We lean heavily on the intersection of art, humanity, AI and crypto landscape towards the production of retold PFPs, reimagined landscapes and the relationship we have with art as technology learns and scales.
Where do humans and AI find themselves on the road to discovering artistic endeavours? We are on the bleeding edge of this realization and will help advance and accelerate this way.
What is your unique value prop/elevator pitch? What type of art will you focus on? How will your Space stand out among the crowd? 2 Parts â We generate and work with key tools in the AI space to create works directly and create themes/series for other communities to develop. We have a mixed medium of AI coordinated art and iterative design -AI âHuman âAI centred approach.
¡ 8. Describe you/your teamâs experience curating and promoting artwork: We curate from artists within the community â they form, topic and Story is outlined â our artists then reach out to their base to interpret their view within a given medium. Timeboxed, Story framed events. 4 to date includes a private commission from within the story set.
¡ 9. Describe you/your teamâs experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc.: We have run and been party to several Crypto NFT launches collections in Crypovoxel and Decentraland space. Three collabs, one strategic partner. 2 Metaverse based event launches.
¡ 10. Are there new artists youâd like to bring into your Space in the first six months? What is your relationship with them? Community builder relationship, we use a similar channel of creation and mediums. The ethos of linkage is key - Crypto Art development
¡ 11. Are there any artists already in the CryptoArt space that you plan to work with? Have they committed to participating yet? They are either part of the flooded districted or directly linked via tight collab efforts.
¡ 12. If selected, how soon could you launch your first exhibition? March - We already have a collection of work to Launch, plus a series of monthly releases.
¡ 13. Please provide any additional details about how you plan to operate this Space, e.g. cadence of releases, auction strategy, number of artworks, other ideas for promoting your art and artists, etc. The artwork is from the demand gen of collaboration to drive demand. These are monthly releases to allow for medium generation timelines. Each artist will be limited to 1/1 of 1 of 5 prints per release to ensure focus and quality.
¡ 14. How do you plan to structure commission rates for the artists who release in your Space?
15% toward a community Flooded District DAO, commission rates for Superare and re-sell must be calculated based on art demand and relevance from previous work. A sliding scale.
¡ 15. What is the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology to you? Where do you see the NFT and CryptoArt Space in five years?
Itâs a channel to create artistic keys to future avenues of creative growth. PFPâs, gaming, IRL key access to venues inc portfolios of real estate, events and access keys to premium spaces and goods. These will be a mixture of Flex unlocks and status elements to grow as contracts connect to NFT advance. Ownership and governance will be essential in artistic endeavours for authenticity and verification.
¡ 16. - If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why? Pornstar Martini is a stylish and confident drink group pure indulgence in artistic crypto endeavours, fun and evocative
Space name / team name:
PIXELENT
Name and email of primary contact:
Kuznetsova Anastasia [email protected]
Names of additional Space admins:
Eldzarova Ekaterina
Zheleznikova Anastasia
SuperRare username(s) of everyone involved with your Space:
Short bio of you and/or your team:
Pixeland is our academy of modern creativity. We train hundreds and thousands of students from all over the world to master digital art without experience
Website & Social Media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/pixelent.ru/
https://www.instagram.com/kuznetsova_anastasiya/
https://twitter.com/kuznetsova_art
Summary/manifesto of your Space (~500 words). What is your unique value prop / elevator pitch? What type of art will you focus on? How will your Space stand out among the crowd?
Our unique value lies in the thousands of students who, with our help, have learned to create and create, to earn on their creativity. Our students become independent and free from the daily routine. Their success and happiness are the most valuable things in our team.
We focused on the field of digital art, as digital creativity is the future. Many of our graduates are already successfully advancing on the NFT platforms. We plan to unite our entire community and create a huge exhibition of completely unique works. We do not know of any such global project in the field of education yet
Describe you/your teamâs experience curating and promoting artwork:
We regularly hold expositions and meetings of creative people at the venues of our country, most often in its capital. At the moment, these are offline events, but also now our technical department is preparing a platform for an online gallery so that everyone can feel the process and the results of our students.
Describe you/your teamâs experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc:
At the moment, we have not conducted auctions in a global sense, but we want to arrange it within the framework of NFT platforms on which both ourselves and our students are exhibited. I wrote about the virtual exhibition earlier. Also, as the founder of the academy, I have worked with major brands such as REACH, RECHE, Sberbank and others. Collaborations with other companies are planned in the future.
Are there new artists youâd like to bring into your Space in the first six months? What is your relationship to them?
Login ⢠Instagram Olga Kaminskaya. A very talented illustrator, especially in the field of interior sketching
Login ⢠Instagram Victoria, she admires with her passionate works. Successfully sold on NFT platforms such as FND and OpenSea
Are there any artists already in the CryptoArt space that you are planning to work with? Have they committed to participating yet?
Login ⢠Instagram Maria
Login ⢠Instagram Victoria
https://twitter.com/____jacklyn Jacklin
Login ⢠Instagram Irina
Not yet
If selected, how soon could you launch your first exhibition?
After about 3- 6 months
Please provide any additional details about how you plan to operate this Space; e.g. cadence of releases, auction strategy, number of artworks, other ideas for promoting your art and artists, etc.
For the first exhibition, we will collect a collection of works by our students. Everything is ready for implementation. The advertising strategy has been prepared, the works have been selected, the consent for publication has been received
How do you plan to structure commission rates for the artists who release in your Space?
It all depends on the artistsâ experience. There will be several price categories: for beginners in digital art, for those who are already actively working in this field and for professionals
To you, what is the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology? Where do you see the NFT and CryptoArt space in five years?
The most important thing for me is accessibility and erasing boundaries. In our turbulent times, everything goes digital, because with the pandemic, everyone realized that this is the only way we can connect countries and continents with each other. NFT and technology are the future not only of art, but also of all spheres of our life.
If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why?
Let me think, I think weâd be pizza. Where else can so much variety be combined to taste and serve) what variations are there, so does our community. Our works will be unique, delicious and bright
Anything else youâd like the community to know/consider?
We are grateful for the opportunity, and we hope that you will consider our application. We will do our best to bring uniqueness to your community and add our own colors to it
Space name / team name:
Rome & DKLEINE
Name and email of primary contact:
Madison Rome, MADROME, [email protected]
Names of additional Space admins:
Darren Kleine, DKLEINE
SuperRare username(s) of everyone involved with your Space:
@dkleine
Short bio of you and/or your team:
Two artists - Madison Rome, at The Wall Street Journal, and Dkleine, at NFP with Dkleine podcast. Through interactions in his writing career, DKleine encountered figures who introduced him to the world of cryptoart. He wrote about âImmutable Trashâ for Cointelegraph Magazine and began his exploration of this new world as a writer turned artist. Madison discovered NFTâs as she found digital solutions to traditional fashion photography over COVID. Her discovery of NFP with Dkleine led to combining their two opposite styles - femininity and crypto punk - into a collection.
The two artistsâ strengths are networking across the space, and combining unexpected complementary styles.
Website & Social Media Links:
https://twitter.com/rome_madison
https://www.instagram.com/mad.rome/
Summary/manifesto of your Space (~500 words). What is your unique value prop / elevator pitch? What type of art will you focus on? How will your Space stand out among the crowd?
We are the audience that NFTâs filled a need for, and will reflect that perspective. We worked art into our respective routines, both with opposing styles. However with the same passionate sentiment, our styles collaborated surprisingly well. Our space will celebrate that spirit.
Rome & DKLEINE is a place for artists to come oppose each other. For their art to stand next to another piece that they wouldnât have previously imagined would complement them so well. But moreover, artists will be encouraged to create a piece rare to the space and truly collaborate with an assigned artist. Rome & DKLEINE is a place for artists to discover parts of themselves that they wouldnât have without the inspiration of another, and for audiences to see a raw process.
Describe you/your teamâs experience curating and promoting artwork:
DKLEINE, hosting the Non-Fungible Podcast, curates and promotes artists and their projects, interviewing them about their raison dâĂŞtre in the NFT art scene. MADROME curates her own artwork and those of artists across NYC maintaining close relationships with galleries. She works in business development at The Wall Street Journal where she grows 7M+ in revenue of digital media.
Describe you/your teamâs experience organizing exhibitions, making art sales, running auctions, networking with collectors, etc:
As a member of The Guild, Dkleine is connected to an amazing array of artists who have exhibited and sold their works via a vast range of bother traditional and digital find arts platforms.
Our strength is connecting with artists and building a network of creators.
Are there new artists youâd like to bring into your Space in the first six months? What is your relationship to them?
- Laura Kim
- Jacky Marshall
Weâll be reaching out to artists on each major NFT marketplace platform with a smaller amount of followings, artists at publishers like WSJ, Vogue, etc., and outreaching to various creative agencies who can speak to their raw talent. Iâd like to find fine arts artists who have not yet seen the opportunity of NFTâs, and have them collaborate with others within Rome & DKLEINE
Are there any artists already in the CryptoArt space that you are planning to work with? Have they committed to participating yet?
- Doodle
- Blair Breitenstein
- The Institute of Digital Fashion
- The Dematerialised
- Johanna Jaskowska
- New Collective artists
- Jason Chambers Art
- Diana Sinclair
- Gary Vee
If selected, how soon could you launch your first exhibition?
Within a couple months of outreach and curation among various artists. However we would submit beta samples across social media within a week.
Please provide any additional details about how you plan to operate this Space; e.g. cadence of releases, auction strategy, number of artworks, other ideas for promoting your art and artists, etc.
Daily promotions across Twitter, IG, Tik Tok, to ultimately prospect new artists. We would search across the marketplaces
How do you plan to structure commission rates for the artists who release in your Space?
The NFT space was meant to benefit artists, both promotionally and financially. We want to keep that spirit and keep the artist considered. We value taking a smaller percentage from a wide array of artists. Weâd challenge these artists to create collections, likely collaborative the same way MADROME X Dkleine collaborated.
To you, what is the importance of NFTs as a medium/technology? Where do you see the NFT and CryptoArt space in five years?
NFTâs are limitless. Both as a medium and a technology, they open space for inspiration that hadnât previously been there. Thatâs the space we want to tap in our Space Race. In 5 years, more people will unlock a potential they didnât realize they had.
If your Space were a cocktail or a dish, what would it be and why?
Charcuterie board - everyone knows what it is, but the combined elements still make it intriguing each time.
Anything else youâd like the community to know/consider?
Rome & DKLEINE has the network, love for the future of art, and creative eye to create a rare space. We want emerging artists celebrated, potential unlocked, and the integrity of SuperRare strong.
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