Curation Committee
0xDEAFBEEF
DEAFBEEF is a multidisciplinary artist whose generative audiovisual works push the limits of what can be created on the blockchain with nothing but a 10-year-old computer, a C compiler, and the human imagination. He's been a part of the Fingerprints Curation Committee since its inception.
Arad
Arad is a collector, an amateur coder, and an investor at Collab+Currency. The first NFTs he ever owned were Autoglyphs, subsequently falling into the rabbit hole of artistic creations unique to the crypto medium. This passion led him to join the Curation Committee. He has been a member since its inception.
B123
B123 is a digital art collector and curator. He supports DAOs and tech start-ups with their strategic choices. Fascinated by the relationship between art and technology, his goal is to make impactful digital art better known and build a bridge between web3 and the traditional art world.
David Lisser
David is a UK-based artist working across physical and digital media. His work examines the relationship between technology, nature, and human experience. He has exhibited at BALTIC, Calgary Contemporary, MIMA, and many others. David has conducted research residencies with Cambridge University and The Pervasive Media Studio. He is a founding member of the BLOOM collective.
Klamt
Klamt is a core contributor and has participated in multiple initiatives at Fingerprints DAO. He leads Fingerprints Studio, a platform that helps artists launch new blockchain art projects. Klamt joined Fingerprints in January 2022, having spent the prior 13 years in the investment banking industry.
Plutonium F.
Plutonium F. is a designer, collector, and digital art curator. He holds a degree in Integrated Design and New Media and has been collecting digital art since 2020. He creates curated tours of various artists and collections on Twitter and was the curator for the perceive(form) exhibit at the Art Blocks gallery in Marfa, Texas.
Shamrock
Shamrock is a keen collector based out of the UK and an official DAO groupie (Bright Opportunities, Pleasr, Grailers and of course Fingerprints). Passionate about all things generative art - active collector on both Eth and Tez chains and keen student of the history of the movement (pre NFTs) and its pioneers.
Chainleft
Chainleft is a blockchain-native artist dedicated to creating, collecting, and writing about the type of art that's only possible with blockchains. With a data science background, Chainleft aims to craft works that leverage blockchain and its always-on computer to influence aesthetics while exploring optimization, permanence, programmability, social dynamics, and dynamism themes.
Our Curation System
The Curation Committee, elected by the Fingerprints community, oversees all acquisitions.
Fingerprints holds periodic elections to refresh the committee. The term for each iteration of the committee is typically 6 months. Non-members are allowed to apply through liaison of an existing member.
We believe art that is foundational, innovative, and made possible by this new medium is more likely to retain value in the long run due to its uniqueness and substance.
These attributes render them inimitable and irreplaceable, qualities present in all art that has stood the test of time. When people look back to the genesis of the NFT art market, specific collections will stand out as groundbreaking for making innovative use of the blockchain for artistic expression. These are the works we intend to collect.
Artworks are assessed by the Committee according to a framework composed of four categories.
The work must exhibit at least one of these qualifications in either form or concept:
| Criteria | Description |
|---|---|
| On-chain storage | The artwork can be fully recreated from information stored entirely on the blockchain |
| Dynamism | The artwork is responsive to on-chain activity, such as block information, token prices, or users’ proactive programming |
| Coordination | The artwork incentivizes coordinated behavior by human or non-human agents |
| Value and ownership | The artwork critically examines financial value, markets, and/or ownership, or deploys its own economic mechanisms |
| Smart Contract Concepts | The artwork uses smart contract mechanics as it primary medium to express and explore unique concepts |
