SEIZE THE WORDS

of Michael Hafftka

Celebrating an impressive five decades of artistic brilliance, Michael Hafftka stands as a titan in the art world. His works grace the permanent collections of prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and many others. Now, he's extending his iconic presence into the crypto space, solidifying his status as a living legend.

In the upcoming dialogue, we delve into a range of intriguing topics, including the dynamics of creative flow, the expansive horizons of digital art, the contagious appeal of memes, the transformative potential of blockchain for artists, and the vibrant landscape of the crypto community.

Voices by Hafftka

The Memes by 6529 collection

Etch #2465

Asha: Gm and welcome to Seize The Words! I’m so excited and grateful that you accepted the invitation. I can’t think of a better way to start off the series than with you leading the way!

Michael Hafftka: GM GM I am so honored and grateful to share my thoughts with you and the whole community. LFG

First conversation of the Seize The Words series.

"I don’t know where inspiration comes from,

I know that I often feel it baking inside me until I get it out into a work of art. "

The Legend, The Flow, and The Crypto Age

Etched on March 10, 2024. Now living on-chain forever

UNINVITED Stills: Fight/Flight

The NFT before you is part of UNINVITED project. Started as a film, it depicts an alternate reality as seen through the eyes of CCTV and AI. Images hijacked from thousands of unsecured CCTV cameras from all over the world are the basis of this work. These images were sorted, analysed, interpreted, and optimised by a set of deep learning algorithms and then orchestrated into a horror film:

"An invisible networked super-organism oscillating between anxiety, lust, and horror. Described by the artists as 'a radically new creature looking at the world and nothing makes sense,’ the synthetic organism apprehends the universe through millions of hallucinogenic virally abused (CCTV) sensors.

Thompson & UBERMORGEN’s life-form continually evolves by using human and machine learning. It defines its own existence and distributed agency through undergoing fear, instability, aggression, and vulnerability."

This is part 1 of the triptych "UNINVITED Stills: Fight/Flight".

This is part 2 of the triptych "UNINVITED Stills: Fight/Flight".

This is part 3 of the triptych "UNINVITED Stills: Fight/Flight".

For this first set of NFTs, the artists have used a scene from a section of the movie - "Fight/Flight > Human" and fed it to yet another AI ("Deep Nostalgia") in order to animate the AI-interpreted faces in the found CCTV footage. This set of 3 NFTs construct a triptych of something that never happened with people that don't exist.

This is an edition of 1/1 plus 1 AP.

Luxe

Golf Socks

Color Sets

Fidenza uses probabilistic color palettes. These are a set of colors that are selected by hand to work well together. Each color in the palette is assigned a probability. So, for example, you can say that about 50% of the shapes will be blue, 25% will be red, 10% yellow, and so on. For Fidenza, I prepared 14 different probabilistic color palettes, one of which uses a different probability technique.

-Tyler Hobbs

Fidenza Exploration

This gallery is a companion to Tyler Hobbs' explanation of Fidenza. It is meant to be viewed in conjuction with that article to help readers understand the color sets and variations of scale discussed by Tyler.