AUTONOMOUS PRISM TRUSTS
Art Token based Trusts/Exchanges will be set up for the benefit of deficit-facing Art Institutions and Museums, as well as NGO's and vulnerable populations. These tokens will represent and be secured by a lionshare of a series of my own digital works called the Autonomous Prism (2010-present) which is comprised of thousands of works.
Artworks from this same series were shown publicly last in 1:54 Contemporary African Art (NY Edition) in 2019 and in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art Fair at Brooklyn Museum in 2016.
As an non-fungible token the value of all of these works across all of their editions, sizes and various media formats - from tradtional archival paper prints to the largest 100” freestanding lightboxes - can be monetized and leveraged at once as the artworks instantly beome more liquid through smart contract/blockchain.
Built into each smart contract accompanying each work as metadata is standard art/asset/artifact descriptions like the artwork's dimensions, edition number, materials, it's provenance (record of past ownership) and even the locale of artwork if so decided.
Additionally, wallets of the organizations and institutions in need of support can be linked automatically to each sale, and funds redireted to them immediately via smart contract.
New Art Token Offerings (ATO’s) by other artists’ works will be launched well into the future, creating new tokens and aiming to support new causes and institutions.
About Collection
Autonomous Prism Collection consists of over 9,000 digital artworks created through digital collage and algorithmic manipulation, the works were made from 2010-present.
Each image array or sequence of images which individually the artist calls analysands, a term borrowed from psychoanalysis to mean an image, event or artifact that is to be analysed, display both an immense amount of variation and equal measure of difference and uniquesness.
The majority of the Autonomous Prism Collection are images chosen from 249K total images that were made from a single source video found on his computer screen one night while working at an art residency in Berlin. Interestingly, the artist titled this seminal video artifact as Black Mirror in 2010 and exhibited the work in Downtown LA 2011 predating the popular sci-fi/futurist televisual series).
PRESS
VALUATION RESEARCH
data compiled by Lele Barnett
UPCOMING EXHIBITS:
New York Electronic Arts Festival
May2021
Governor’s Island, NY
RESOURCES FOR COLLECTORS | INVESTORS:
Art Tokenization
https://medium.com/security-token-offering/art-tokenization-what-is-it-how-does-it-work-fb2e31bfb822
Companies
SuperRare, cryptobased art exchange only offering digital art as a unique artifact but they're not issuing/trading in tokens secured/backed by real world objects as in a security token:
About Artist
Originally trained as a painter, US born and based artist Jakob Dwight was drawn to digital art and software as an opportunity to explore the transformative impact of digital media on painting and the painterly perspective. Inspired by the opiated, meditative quality of the screen-based televisual space, the artist saw the exploration of the illuminated image as significant to contemporary sensory culture.
The artist seeks the transformative potential of light and space by employing multiple media including painting, digital photography, drawing, collage, smart tv streaming, and the dome master (circular ‘fisheye’ images produced in the process of making fulldome video).
Dwight’s work has been presented internationally, including in Amsterdam, Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, Seattle, Atlanta, Vienna, Salzburg (Switzerland) and New York. He has exhibited in Kassel, Germany as part of the Kreuzberg Pavillon at dOCUMENTA (13), 2012. In the same year, he was awarded the Harvestworks New Works residency in New York. In 2010, Dwight was invited to attend GlogauAIR artists' residency in Germany, and in the following year, 2011, he was awarded a United States Artist’s Residency. As part of the Aesthetics + Therapeutics Lab, a collectively run platform developed to initiate installations and experiments in immersive art and healing, Dwight has installed a multi-sensory environment at Vortex Immersion Media Dome at LA Center Studios in 2014.
He was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum to create new work for the Disguise: Masks and Global African Art exhibition at UCLA's Fowler Museum, which traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York in April 2016.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair with 50Golborne Gallery (2019), London, UK, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2016), Seattle Art Museum (2015), Sedition, (world-wide/online) London, UK, Fowler Museum at UCLA (2015), Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival and New York Electronic Arts Festival, NY, Metro54, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Grand Bohemian Hotel / Kessler Collection Hotels, Birmingham, AL, Hotel Particulier, NY, and AKAA, Paris, France.
COLLECTIONS
Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DC)
Peggy Cooper Cafritz (DC)
Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center (NY)
Glogauer Art Residency (GER)
Steve Spacek (AU)