As The Art of Punk exhibition at the Museum Francisco Carolinum winds down, curator Julia Staudach reflected on the show’s significance in an interview with NFT Now. Widely recognized as one of the standout Web3 exhibitions of the past year, it spanned both the Museum Francisco Carolinum in Linz, Austria, and the Metaverse via Voxels (formerly CryptoVoxels). Here’s a glimpse into the conversation:
“Along with breakout, globally recognized luminaries like Mike Winkelmann (Beeple), Pindar Van Arman, Claire Silver, Matt Hall and John Wilkinson of Larva Labs, Tom Sachs, Kevin Abosch, 0xdeafbeef, and Nina Chanel Abney, the exhibition also shows works from Punk-holding creators who are mostly known in the Web3 community. Some are established, like Twin Flames photographer Justin Aversano, digital artist Martin Lukas Ostachowski (MLO), and serial NFT project founder natealex. Still others are just now dipping their toes into the world of art.”
“[…] Who is early? I think MLO is pretty early. And he’s telling the history of CryptoPunks in a huge piece with 21 notebooks that are hanging on the wall. And took various kinds of blue tones, in a mosaic pattern, and stamped them all over those notebooks hanging next to each other on the wall. 45,600 manually placed stampings, telling the history of the Punks, and showing the story of Matt Hall and John Wilkinson. The mosaic traces how they came from their early Android days, their games, to the birth of the CryptoPunks and later the v1 Punk controversy, Meebits, and the Yuga Labs sale, pretty much up until today.”
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