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Lumen Studios

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A world leading art & technology studio that works with award winning artists to develop transmedia experiences. www.lumenstudios.art
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What experience have you gone to in the last 6 months that has changed your life? 🤔
Getting closer to our first studio show…

So many amazing places to build art experiences 💚
Beastie Boys were ahead of their time!
The process is as important as the art itself.
Slowly, slowly and then all at once.
The traditional art world is incorporating digital art. Brace yourself for exciting changes ahead! Many exciting conversations in play this week!
The idea that we are polymorphous, that we are several people inside of ourselves, is a really healthy idea. It’s what freedom is about. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Base doesn’t like it when you talk about excessive financialization filing the channel.
However, when all the conversations on a platform are related to memecoins it’s important to point out we need to build things in society that bring happiness and purpose.
What is digital art? Is it more than art? Do we need to rebrand it?
I feel like we need to complete this!!!
It is common to think about technology > art

Very few know it is often art > technology

Before ChatGPT there was Agent Ruby.
Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. This could have been on-chain. They used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.

by Aaron Koblin & Takashi Kawashima
Sure, anyone can make some art using Gen Art tools - but the difference between the skilled artists and casual Gen AI users is significant.
When art and experience merge, it is 🔥

Es Devlin showing us all how it is done!

The Chanel No5 100 year celebration - sculpture.

This is the way to expand into the wider conscious with art and storytelling!
Starting off the week by revisiting the amazing Compendium series by Casey Reas ❤️
Challenges for artists are still clear -

self-promotion skills are essential
algorithms are tricky
online idea theft and copying
Pressure to create viral, meme-able art

Transmedia experiences - we extend digital art reach and create longer lasting IP - for a wider audience.

This is our mission. 💥
We live in a networked society where everything is fluid. We no longer have “points of reference,” but “flows of reference.” Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
The future of Art commerce is exciting! Tipping will become buying when trad commerce platforms become integrated here.
Just installed actions.. most of which are tipping. Can’t wait to start supporting artists on WC!
Just installed actions.. most of which are tipping. Can’t wait to start supporting artists on WC!
Matthias Dörfelt, an artist based in Los Angeles, embarked on an innovative project, aptly named ‘Block Bills’, to bring the intangible concept of Bitcoin into tangible, visually striking representations. This was in 2017 - he was ahead of his time.