Echoing as One: Infinite Garden Artist Cohort | TCE - DevConnect Buenos Aires

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Thank you so much for having us here. I'm very pleased to uh talk about um the artist cohort we have just finished at the exhibition in a dev connect and then we spent four months of um together to cultivate ideas cultivate you know practice arts art practice and then get to know each other. Um so I want to go through the some slides about uh talking about what we did.

Let's go. Okay. Sorry. Just can you Okay. Back back. Okay. So uh echoing as one an exhibition by infinite garden artist cohort at the connect. Um these guys are infinite garden artists. So what is a infinite garden artist cohort? So this is the second year of the cohort um that we did. It's a part of the dev connect uh scholars program and the vision of the cohort is to uh bring artists together uh from the

diverse discipines and explore Ethereum's culture values and the infinite garden philosophy through their creative practices and uh learning session studio work and exhibition at the dev connect and then particip participants will these guys will engage deeply voice and expand the vision of the infinite garden where growth and emerges from the openness and the connection the soul of the Ethereum and then so what is the infinite garden like uh have you uh known for uh the name of the infinite garden do you know what is infinite garden probably you might have heard about it

maybe not it's okay uh infinite garden is a vision for Ethereum uh that we envisioned and the infinite comes from the infinite games. So infinite game is the the g the type of game there's no beginning or ending and there's no winner or losers. So the goal of the infinite game is to keep playing. um compared to final games. Finite games is like always have the beginning of ending. Um have winners or losers such as you know sports or a lot of the games

are actually finite games in the world but very important to have the infinite games to make something like longlasting and also more uh more open and then more um joy to play. Right. So, so this is the infinite game and the Ethereum ecosystem, you know, we're not fighting each other. We're just, you know, cultivating together and it's we want to keep playing, you know. So, so this is the vision of the Ethereum and the garden part is a um you know so ecosystem is like a kind of nature [crying] as well and then we are here as a human to kind of create the garden you

know not like it just being a nature just you know but we we designed the garden right so that's a human part so it's like a nature human connection and so this is a uh the diagram of the paste layering by Stuart brand. Um and then so this is the layers from the fashion to the nature. So our our society is made of something like this like the fashion is really fast you know and then comes the commerce transaction business everyday things and then infrastructure supports that to do and then governance as society we decide how what's the rule set and then but that is

depending on the culture like what kind of rule set you create is it's based on the culture and Um, as I said, like the infinite garden is about the long-term vision and that we wanted to create this the the the practice to embody the long term to cultivate the culture and the art is definitely one of the the the human practice that we could do the long term to have to have the uh to develop the culture.

So the program was designed to do that and then so it's yeah it was like a learning and studio and exhibition and in a way it was like for me it was like a arts art school like online art school with awesome different diverse artists right and and then we even had a virtual art studio like this. So we we played with a lot of activities based on that.

And here at the dev connect we uh created the gallery space infinite garden artist exhibition at the green pig which is the next green uh area and it looks like this. So so if you haven't checked the exhibition please go find this pyramid and then just go explore. So now uh what yeah it's called echoing as one. Um so we came up with this uh concept by going through this program and then observing what's going on and then it's actually each artist expressing themselves and then creating its own resonance but also the resonance in

between is creating another different resonance or relationships and stuff. So this is like oh this is a really good concept and also it applies to the whole ecosystem as well like now we have as you see in the dev connect we have so much going on and so many different elements and then each one each elements also resonating each other and creating another resonance right so as a whole as the ecosystem is actually echoing as one right all right So now I want to actually go one by one >> to share.

>> Hi. >> Yeah. >> I'm Magdalena and H first I want to talk a little bit about my work. I think the the four months that we spend together interchanging ideas. Erh you can see if you go to the exhibition that the works has links to each other and connections that happen naturally because of that time spent together and the ideas we interchange. And my my piece is called showing machines that is re um very related to the infinite garden concept because what I wanted to create was an electronic

garden and with this useless machines is a concept that I have been working on. Um I think technology artists and technology are things that are very important to be related and sometimes we forget that or we think art is just uh something beautiful and I think it's important to have artist reflecting on technologies new old the intersection of new and old technologies discarded materials um because there's ideas and thoughts I artists have that can in deeply

influence with with time and with effort how we relate to the future and the future and the technology we use. So go check it out. We will be there I think later so you you can hear more about the work. Um, hi, I'm Felina. Um, you see the photo of the oil painting I'm exhibiting um there on the screen. And um for me it's really important to think about that we're right now in the change of our like society, community, politics, but also like the money making system.

Um that would have a great impact on all our future. Um, and they use this very like mythological um moment from the Christian um storytelling like or Christian mythology to refer to um to how like to the fact that how it's so important to think of our choices and how they're going to affect the future. And um right now we're making so many changes. We're implementing so many new infrastructures and we're setting like stones for so many new paths um that I just want to like um inspire people or people who watch at this image to think about their values and think of how they can actually um integrate their values into the technologies or whatever they're building. Um yeah, so there's

more information to the painting once you're in the exhibition. And I won't talk too much about it now, but yeah, just I think that captures it. >> Hi, I'm Clementine and next to Santiago Reos, we are Duodo and the work that we have created for the infinite garden is called Yama. Yama is a collaborative sonic landscape where we collaborate with um a Japanese trio band called Digdag and my grandmother's voice to create a song um that is like an infinite game because we have like this idea the seed

to tell a story where we can um let the the frontiers and the limits between cultures and countries to use music as a common language, as a universal language. Um, it's a blend of languages of generations and cultures uh where we want to invite different artists to collaborate with us. The music part was made by DigDag Duodo and my grandmother. The visual part is b made by Stani.

Stani is also a art visual artist from here from Argentina. And in we made next to the piece that you can listen there is a song is a song based in a genre of Argentinian folk music called Chakara but in our own way with our own sound. And next to this piece that you will able to listen and read the subtitles to understand what the lyrics and are saying because in the lyrics we mix three languages Ketwa, Spanish and Japanese.

And next to the piece is a papirus made by an artist who is here today. I believe she's outside is Grotesca. Grotesca helped us create the papirus. H that this papirus is a collaborative manifesto. We invite people from all around the world to answer a question. When mountains, cultures, and memories meet, what do they awaken in you? And people give us their answers in different languages, Spanish, English and Japanese mostly. And we create this papirus that is also open for you to to make your own reflection about it on it.

So we invite you as everyone to come to join us to the exhibition echoing as one to discover the words and be part of them. Thank you. >> Hello everyone. So really glad to be here and uh yeah I hope everyone could experience like the art gallery staff and I think some of us will be there later and uh yeah I'm uh I'm an artist and a technologist and I do a lot of like art tech experience uh uh yeah recent recently my research is always focused on the private data

and the collective uh consciousness. So, so right now I I build feelings to be here. So the inspir the inspiration of this artwork was inspire oh uh the inspiration of this artwork was inspired by the social media activities for every days and yeah we spend a lot of time on the Tik Tok uh Twitter and uh YouTube like um but actually our uh data is like is just like the raw material for the platform and we are be um we are be profiled optimized can be feed by the plan 4. But uh what what if we can flip? What we can change this script? And so I I I got a

sentence like uh stop feeding the machine and let your data feed yourself. So feeling is just a a gamification app for this. Yeah. uh it's just like a Pokemon staff and it lives in on your dynamic island and widget and when and your data is just be analyzed in uh in uh in the M bye-bye bym in the TE and uh yeah when you score a lot of uh when you consume a lot of like crypto stuff maybe your pet will get uh like will get the laser ice or like uh like the crypto uh crypto stuff and when you when you consume a lot of like baker baker

videos, your pet will get a uh your pet will get a like a chief's hat or something else. Yeah. So, actually everyone's private data uh you we have we have just like two two ways for our data. One ways is being private but being alone. The other ways is be public but maybe you are be tracked. Um so I got um like everything was wrong. a new technology. It's like a TE. It's like a it's like a black h black box and all the all the datas would be analyzed in it by the by the m but no one can access the data. It's just the output of your b

just the we can just like output the result of the uh analyze stuff and uh by this time we build like a a new social prototype. So we we both have the privacy and also we can connect with each other through the panform. So make sure to download the app here in is live in the app store and you can experience this. So this is like a collective consciousness of our vibe here. Yeah. If the Ethereum actually try good I asked this question and the answer is just a data. So just just like download the QR code here and experience it. Thank you everyone.

[applause] >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> Great. Okay. Hi everybody. I'm Tiny. Um my work was inspired by some of the lectures that we had during our three-month cohort which were around the topic of meditation. During that period, I also really built up and began practicing meditation myself regularly and I've stuck with it. So, I'm very proud of myself. Um, this piece invites you, if you go check it out, it invites you to just there's some noise cancelling headphones. Take you can take a nice silent moment for yourself. Just reflect, be still, be present. Um, and on the opposite side, it's uh also a

very meditative piece for me to have created. I spent around like 25 hours literally doing the most repetitive motion of sewing this spiral. So, um, there's something really interesting when you get into that flow state of doing something so repetitive and some would say boring, but I find that it you just get into this natural flow and and it's it's it's I don't know how to describe it. It's it's such a wonderful most present feeling. Um, and so I'm very happy to have brought that work here and to share it with you all. And it's a bit connected to this notebook which I created as an earlier project that's uh a diary basically. And all of that is also handstitched. So if you are interested, you can go check it out. You

can flip through the book if you want to. Um, yeah. Thank you. [applause] >> Hi. Uh, I'm Ina. I am based in Soul, South Korea. I'm a media artist and research engineer working at the intersection of XAR as in extended reality and AI as well as performing arts. Uh in this exhibition I present this work titled after Soma in infinite garden. It was inspired by our theme infinite garden as it's obviously sounding. So uh in this work I combine uh AI powered video arts as this and headmounted display VR device as this in

order to invite the audiences to experience what we can call as somatic meditation. Now s here refers to body cell in biology and also in in Hindi beliefs it refers to sacred drinks or the vessels that contain those strings. So however you define a soma I hope you can uh fear your body extending the infinite garden with this work and in our exhibition as well. Thank you. >> Hey everyone. Uh let's play a game. I'm going to read both of these poems and I'm going to ask you a question. Both of them are on the theme of desire. The one

on the left is poem A. The one on the right is poem B. I introduce myself as a system of longing. He shares his taste for salt and topologies of skin. The largest organ he says is want is a bleeding poem. Is a flower made of flesh, butter, snow. His knuckles soon burrowing in my cheek searching for surrender. Poem B. I chain wishes on the exterior glass of a door. I open only to discoveries under the lid of night. Desire microscopic here, discovering a lost tissue of molecules on the tongue. A cat suddenly on the roof shoots drops of moonlight. My fingers run on the

keyboard, afraid they won't find the alphabet anymore. The question is, which one was written by a machine? If you think poem poem A was written by a machine, raise your hand. One, two, two people. If you think poem B was written by a machine, raise your hand. Okay, cool. You will never know, unfortunately. [laughter] Next slide. Uh, yeah, this is not a survey with an answer at the end. Um, this is me. I'm sitting at the green pavilion every day for um usually at least an hour and I'm writing poems. Um at the end of every session, 30 minutes, I print the poem.

It's written about the theme that people suggest and I hang the poem. Uh it's hand it's hung side by side with another poem that was written by the machine about the same theme. And then I ask people to come and vote with these small green stickers that you might have seen. Next slide. At the end of the day, I count or at the end of the week in this case, I count all of the votes for each of the poems. If the human poem won, it is fed back into the data set of the machine and the machine improves. If it if the machine poem wins, I commit to reading it and improving as a poet. Next slide. This is the third iteration of this experiment.

The first one was in Paris was called carnation.exe. The second one in San Francisco was called versus. And the third one is right here called reinforcements. Everyone has a each one is a color because robots need some kind of distinguisher and a different name. And the the model is getting better and I think as as part of this iteration uh I am getting to know it better and it is getting to know me better. It's a mutual reinforcement and this experiment will continue. It's an infinite game. Next slide. And the question really the invitation here the provocation is what if we can reimagine our relationship? We we're really being handed two narratives today in our relationship to AI. It's either doom or hyper optimism. And what if we can ask different questions? What if

this is a fight that's a bit more exciting where the goal is not to win or lose, but to entertain maybe the folks who are looking? Maybe this c this poetry cage I'm trapped in is a circus for you all to have fun. What if it's love? What if me and the machine can actually be in a homoerotic relationship of sorts? And what if there is surrender at the end of this? Either I surrender or the machine surrenders. What if we both surren surrender to each other? What if there's another story at the end of this? Thank you. [applause] My practice is at the intersection of performance, technology, and poetry.

Thank you. [laughter] >> [applause] >> Hello, I'm Luciana.

In this project, my idea was to create a bridge between traditional painting and uh technology. So, I started creating a a an old painting with which is a traditional technique and then uh also the painting was inspired by Bosch studies. I have been studying Bosch for several years, but I recreated with my own style using a a very personal catalog of signals and signs and through the lens of a Latin American woman. That's why the the color palette is so saturated.

And then I work on a 3D model which is a sculpture and works as an extension of the painting. So if you scan the QR code next to the painting, you can access to to the full experience. So I invite you to go there, visit the exhibition and scan the QR and get in the in the full immersive experience of the the artwork. Thank you. [applause] Hello everyone. My name is Delina and I'm from here from Argentina.

And my work is uh my intention was to recreate these icicles made of ice and stallctites that when they start melting they reproduce uh sound design and uh music. And I like the concept of uh this water flowing that due to external factors had to get still it's frozen and in order to come back to life uh it starts h melting uh drop by drop. So these drops are the the the signals that activate the sound.

And I also uh like what I like about it is that um it also creates this reflection about uh ecology and technology. um about yes the the usage of so much technology and blockchain and I want to reflect on well what about uh how we use this energy and how it affects the natural world we are in so thank you [applause] >> hello everyone my name is Marina I'm from Amazon Brazil

and I create this art. Um, this girl in the art, it's the first one who told me about technology and and she said to me to technology to bring to my village and making my village more uh connective connected um and this is how I see the future. Uh I see the future by in the forest with a lot of trees and uh I hope that we don't cut tree to make technology we can integrate them and I I

make this is sculpture too to represent the modern nature and when in the future it's connected to with the the cables and is still green is still grow and I and I hope you like it. [laughter] Yes. [applause] >> So, uh yeah, this is our website the echoing as one. So, please take a look.

Uh we have some um yeah uh writing about that concept and also each one's information there. So, please scan this code and then this is it. It's so nice to actually get together like this and having a conversation together. So, thank you. Thank you for having the opportunity for us. [applause] So, I think we have two minutes left. So, any anybody has any question, please let me know. Uh we can have two minutes Q&A.

>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Hello. Hello. Okay. Uh just open question to the whole uh pack of artist. Uh feedback about what was like this experience. I know a lot of artists came here to Argentina to dev connect from very far places. So how was it you know uh being together now having this exhibition? How do you feel about all this experience? >> Yeah, I would say something to this that came directly to my mind. So I'm usually painting or working with ceramics that keep gives you a lot of time to listen to podcasts. So that's how I got into crypto and blockchain technology. I was

just listening to tons of podcasts always on my own. And this is actually the first time where I meet like like-minded people who are into arts but also into technology and like possibilities of the future and it's so amazing. Like I'm so happy. I love everyone here. We're such a good team. I I didn't expect that at all and I feel like I found a hell like ton of new friends and it's just amazing and I'm very thankful for that. Yeah. [laughter] Anybody want >> I'm not from I'm from Wenocidis, but it's another perspective maybe. And for me, I know I I think in general this whole big event is an excuse to connect

in person with other people. That that's like the most important thing that happened here. So for me that's it makes me emotional because I think it's like the reason we are to be human is to connect with others and sometimes we forget about this and and mostly lately we are having trouble remembering because it feels so good to be alone in your own world but take risks and connect with others. I think that's a a reason to grow and sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's difficult but I think it's very important not to forget to connect with others. So that's a a thing I don't know an answer for me.