Factory town art basel12/11/2022 How to use the blockchain for social impact is another big focus.” Simone continues to say, in sum, that the question Natural Intelligence is asking is: “How do we move forward as a species to utilize technology to stop harming the planet and to become in much greater harmony with it?” Our partners, Project Vesta and C16 Biosciences, are developing carbon capture technologies and alternatives to palm oil, respectively. Simone says, “We want to address the problems planet Earth is facing, while also highlighting solutions by presenting organizations that are affecting change with real and tangible results. Artists, performers, and speakers were invited to elaborate and showcase what the earth and, more specifically, climate change means to them. The premise of Natural Intelligence was a play on AI, taking it to the place where tech and nature meet. Over the span of four days during NFT.NYC, Wonder Fair organized panel discussions and live podcasts, topics included emerging climate and blockchain technologies, social impact in web3, and art’s role in raising awareness and solutions to these pressing issues. Courtesy of the artists. Photograph by Lena Viddo The green open space with its stone rivers and waterways that make up Waterline Square added a nice dash of the wild and natural to the Wonder Fair NYC experience. At the head of the sprawling 2.5 acre lawn of Waterline Square, an interactive futuristic fountain invited children and adults alike to cool off on hot summer days. A roving omakase food experience, avante-garde contortionism, New York’s finest fire dancers, a Balinese mask workshop, and a world class sound journey were just some of the festival’s many activations. Film screenings by award-winning photo journalist and artist, Colin Finlay made the roster of incredible events. The weeklong, action-packed festival promised and delivered interactive and immersive art experiences, performances, panels, and other creative programming, bringing artists, tech people, art lovers, and crypto/NFT holders together. Viewers, attendees and rostered participants were all important actors in its grand design. Boasting a 34ft LED wall, a long row of screens aligning the park's perimeter and an elevated stage accented with floral arrangements, disco balls, other sparkling curiosities, including a muscular state-of-the-art Danley sound system, Wonder Fair was a visual and sensory delight for all who experienced it. This year, they brought their art festival, Wonder Fair 4.0 Natural Intelligence, to Waterline Square, a glittering park on the Upper West Side of New York City for the NFT.NYC international conference.Īn official satellite event of the conference, the mission of Wonder Fair’s latest incarnation was two-fold and included joyful and creative activism to address the pressing issues of the climate crisis while simultaneously delivering a multi-sensory art exhibition showcasing an impressive roster of over 50 international NFT artists, dozens of performance artists, musicians and DJs. Together they’ve staged art festivals at Art Basel in Miami over the past five years. Meet photographer, Erica Simone, and painter, Lena Viddo, the co-founders of the art collective, Wonder Fair. Chanel handbags are ubiquitous, Phoebe Philo-era Celine is close to a uniform, and half the crowd are dressed in ‘stealth wealth’ outfits – which demand impeccably sourced fabrics, a flawless cut and absolutely no logos whatsoever – while the other half look like they have stepped off the pages of a fashion magazine.Wonder Fair 4.0 Natural Intelligence, Emily Fletcher delivering open ceremony. The people are nearly as beautiful as the art. And judging by the size of the Ruinart-sipping, oyster-slurping crowd at the fair on Tuesday – day one of the VIP preview – in-person events are very much back on the agenda.įinance bros talk over each other, bragging about how they have six-figures to spend on something pretty, while immaculately dressed Parisian curators discuss postmodernism in three languages – and grey-haired moguls hunt for a painting or two for their latest yacht. If you’re looking for the best dressed crowd in Europe this week, I’d wager that the editors and buyers at Milan Fashion Week are being outshone by a group of ultra-glossy art lovers a short flight north, in the Swiss city of Basel.Īfter 18 months during which its usual attendees have been stuck at home, Art Basel aches with even more privilege than usual.
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