At Artwrld, I worked collaboratively with top-tier contemporary artists to explore the possibilities of blockchain technology.

My role focused on onboarding artists into the Web3 space, administering smart contracts, and taking files from .mp4 to NFT.

Selected Web3 projects:

Jill Magid: Out-Game Flowers

Launched on Artwrld, February 2023.

Jill Magid’s Out-Game Flowers invites collectors to explore the intersection of commerce and beauty. On Valentine’s Day, Magid and Artwrld dropped 165 digital bouquets arranged with flowers appropriated from the world’s most iconic video games. Out-Game Flowers sold out almost instantly, leading to a thriving secondary market. Bouquets were acquired by Centre Pompidou, NFTmuseum.art, and other significant collections, and Out-Game Flowers was featured on the cover of Art in America.

A Guggenheim Fellow, Magid has had solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern, Whitney Museum, and the Security and Intelligence Agency of the Netherlands. Her work is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Whitney Museum, and Walker Art Center.

Ahmet Öğüt: Monuments of the Disclosed

Launched on Artwrld, December 2022.

Artist Ahmet Öğüt collaborated with Artwrld to create Monuments of the Disclosed–a collection of digital monuments to nine historic whistleblowers. The artworks were made available as Augmented Reality-enabled 3D files, and were minted using a thirdweb NFT Drop contract with custom metadata generation to support multiple file formats. Nine works were acquired by the Kadist collection.

Ahmet Öğüt is an artist, lecturer, and sociocultural initiator. Working across a variety of media, he often uses humor and subtle gestures to comment on pressing social and political issues.

Shirin Neshat: A Loss for Words

Launched on Artwrld, October 2022.

A Loss for Words is the first NFT collection by artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. Inspired by some of her earliest and most iconic photographs, this series combined video, poetry, and computer animation to bring Neshat’s calligraphy to life. All 10 unique works in the series were minted on a Manifold contract.

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker based in New York. Her photographs, videos, and films combine poetic, politically-charged images with narratives questioning issues of power, religion, race, and gender as seen through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile.

Walid Raad: Festival of Gratitude

Launched on Artwrld, July 2022.

Artwrld launched with Festival of Gratitude, Walid Raad’s series of (occasionally, but rarely) lovingly crafted birthday cakes for some of the world's most toxic and/or bigger-than-life leaders. The project is made up of 20 cakes and over 1,000 cake slices, each one a unique 3D animated video file turned NFT.

Walid Raad is an artist and professor of art at The Cooper Union. Raad works across media and disciplines to examine the connections between politics, violence, and cultural narratives. Raad’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, and the 50th Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art.