Keeping up with JPG: New Home Of The Heart, upgraded curator interface, and Merkle Root Berlin
The upcoming NFT sale, good stuff coming to JPG and a new IRL exhibition
Just so you know, I have not forgotten this used to be a fantastic newsletter, and I promise I’ll deliver a great installment next week or so - and I’m not bluffing, I actually wanted to write something about the NFTs of Documenta, but the big things we’re working on on the jpegverse need to be communicated first.
New Home Of The Heart
For those interested in the NFT sale, New Home of the Heart is a curated NFT sale organized with Stateful Works and co-curated by Sofia Garcia. The proceeds from the sale will be split between the artists and Protocol Guild, a collective of 100+ people working on the Ethereum Merge.
New Home of the Heart will be launched on September 12th, 2022, just 3 days before the Merge, and to see the artworks on preview, I am offering a special promo to the readers of what used to be and will soon be again Newsletter, which means you get to see our incredible catalog first - click here.
New Curator Tooling and Opening JPG
On the tech front, we’re building a custom interface for the New Home of The Heart upcoming curated NFT sale, and there’s also a new curator tooling in town - which we’ve been testing and we’re very happy about. As the curator tooling introduces a quite smooth experience, we’re no longer scared of having lots of users reporting issues or bugs, so we’ll be lifting the allowlist this week - we’re finally open to all!
Merkle Root Berlin - a 2 day exhibition and exploration about Berlin and its deep blockchain art roots
Berlin has a super rich history of blockchain art. As a matter of fact, the first discussions and prototypes of NFTs for artwork certification date as early as 2014. And since then, technologists, artists and storytellers have been in dialogue creating an incredibly diverse blockchain art scene, from installations to exhibitions, projects speculating about sovereign nature, and lots of blockchain-as-a-medium.
Since starting ETHBerlin/Department of Decentralization, I’ve been immersed/fangirling and communicating that scene. We started documenting this in early 2019, published two papers, and now for some weird reason, we think we need another side project, so we’re building a timeline - relationships map that will be able to serve as a source for anyone wanting to delve on the origins of this mess.
But that’s not the core of it! We’re also curating an exhibition! Selected artists have a rich history within the city, and we’ve uncovered some grails by your favorites. If in Berlin, you should come to the open day, on September 17th. Invite here.
That’s it for now! Can’t wait to get back to writing the usual rants. Please don’t unsubscribe.