REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS FUTURE is an invitation to travel via the blockchain...
BACK IN TIME through the museum’s collection.
Pioneering digital artists create new digital editions inspired by LACMA’s holdings.
Released on the blockchain in phases, Remembrance of Things Future is engineered and curated by Cactoid Labs, conceived and created in support of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Remembrance of Things Future includes historic limited editioned and long-form generative artworks by Monica Rizzolli, Ix Shells, Jen Stark, Emily Xie, Sarah Zucker, 0xDEAFBEEF, William Mapan, Tyler Hobbs and other digital practitioners.
Known for his painterly and textured digital creations, Mapan is an artist, coder and professor of Interactive and Creative Design at Paris’s preeminent animation school, Gobelins. With Distance, a series of generative computational artworks created in JavaScript, Mapan merges quadrate blocks of color next to each other in grids that teeter, slide and shift, suggesting aerial landscapes painted on thick.
"This work at LACMA is important, it marked Klee’s turn towards abstraction. At first I was drawn to the interplay between the composition—which is grid-based and potentially very rigid—and Klee’s use of color, which is harmonious and soft. Watercolor is interesting because it is so fluid and loose. It’s able to break the grid. I wanted to explore that. When I found out Klee painted it in Tunisia,
Translating his algorithmic work to gouache or oil on paper and then translating these analog textures back into code, Mapan’s masterful digital work exudes an organic pathos unparalleled in today’s burgeoning generative art movement. Each work in his 250 part series Distance is created on-chain, where the ensuing outputs will be impacted by the chance-like encounters of those who interact with
The seventh artist to participate in Remembrance of Things Future, William Mapan is joined by previous artists in this initiative including 0xDEAFBEEF, Monica Rizzolli, Ix Shells, Jen Stark, Emily Xie and Sarah Zucker. Upcoming artists include Tyler Hobbs and others. Following the museum's tradition of collaborating with artists to create limited editions, a percentage of the proceeds from these
The William Mapan: Distance minting window will begin on September 12, 2023 time TBA.
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September 6, 2023 at 4:54pm PDT
There will be a total of 250 tokens in the William Mapan: Distance sale and the price will be 2 ETH.
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