Mars House: 3 days and 4 nights

Contemporary artist Krista Kim you may already know by the successful 100% NFT project called “Mars House”

In collaboration with artist Dirty Robot, Krista presents: “Mars House: 3 days and 4 nights.”  This is an illustrative story following an interstellar couple who take off for a weekend getaway to Mars House for healing, connection and an epic party. This NFT story has 7 parts, dropping everyday between Monday April 26th to May 1st.  The complete story of 7 NFTs are offered as one complete body of work.  

Krista and Dirty Robot are fans of each other's work with a common love for Tokyo and Japanese culture. Krista lived in Tokyo for 4 years and Dirty Robot is based there.  They decided to begin working on this collaboration a week before Mars House was launched last month.  The concept was to create an illustrated story, featuring Mars House as a protagonist.  

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“Mars House is a place of healing, inspiration and dreams. We wanted to capture memorable moments of an interstellar couple at the most iconic NFT house in the galaxy.  We hope you enjoy following this project as much as we had creating it. 

Proceeds are donated to the Continuum Foundation to support healing and mental health initiatives globally. “

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Krista Kim on NFT 2.0, future and Mars House

In a wake of recent mega drop and successful sale of Krista’s Mars House we asked her to share the thoughts on NFT 2.0, the future of art and the development of new initiatives with her current collector and partner Art On Internet

NFT 2.0

The current NFT marketing is very early and limited in its capability and parameters.  The NFT can go beyond a work on your computer screen.  The next generation will be programmable, 3D digital assets that you can mint and buy in real time AR.  The world will be interfaced in AR, through an app called Superworld, which allows us to purchase virtual real estate based on actual real estate, so we are all experiencing same AR phenomena in real time.  Art will be displayed as virtual 3D pieces, sold for homes, outdoor spaces, but they can also float in the sky or be placed in our heads.  We will adorn our bodies, our personal space, with digital accessories and fashion that reacts to our moods, our words... the future will be very creative and self expressive. 

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Mars House

Mars House is a sneak peak to the future, as the first 3D digital home that can be experienced as an immersive experience in AR.  Currently, it can be uploaded to Decentraland, but within one year, it can be an AR skin for your real house and you can invite your friends to enjoy it too.  The possibilities are endless for creatives.  

NFTart for Social Good

I believe the NFT art market has a unique opportunity to become a vehicle for social good.  We made a record sale for Mars House for over $500,000, and Jeff Schroeder and I agreed that the majority of funds would go to the Continuum Foundation, which will support our world tour of sound and light healing installations for mental health and well being.  Our collector, @artoninternet, wanted a collaborative relationship with us to make a contribution to society by creating positive change in the world through his purchase of Mars House, and we are making it happen. 

This new model of social capital investment through the purchase of NFT art as is one that I hope, will become a model for others to follow. It could only exist in the NFT art market because the traditional art market intermediaries take 50% profits from an art sale and that limits the artist’s ability to create projects for the community.  

Everybody wins: the collector has a beautiful new artwork that appreciates in value,  the artist is empowered to create meaningful projects for the community, and the community experiences greater wellbeing and unity.  With greater adoption, which movement has the potential to create a new cultural renaissance.

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Cyber Head – The Army of 2021 by Nikita Replyanski

DC: What was the concept behind “Avatar Portrait series”? 

NR: R66 Avatar is my artistic alter ego in the Metaverse. There are two main ideas behind the Cyber Head portrait series. First it’s a dialog of me as an artist with my audience in the most simple medium I have – my digital face. I speak about my ideas, feelings and thoughts using it like artistic “tweets” short and clear. The second idea is making some kind of my personal R66 token minted in the shape of Art. I’m searching for new opportunities to develop the second concept right now 🙂 

No. 643 v.71d by Krista Kim

DC: How in your words the world may change by 2031? 

KK: We will have a Crypto Renaissance. The crypto Renaissance will exist in equal distribution of wealth, art, science and humanity. People live like artists, creating value for society through their passion and skills. Self expression and transcendence of archaic ideologies and ignorance. No racism. No nationalism. No religion. No sexism. We become a global culture of collaborators and co-creators. Governments will become a localized service through AI and decentralization. Taxes will no longer exist on the Bitcoin standard. 

Dread by Joëlle Snaith

DC: How much effort does it take you to create a motion piece like “Dread”?

JS: With my work, the music is always the starting point and the main source of inspiration. Initially, I spend time absorbing the audio and exploring different techniques and experimenting. The software I use —Vuo — enables an iterative workflow, where I don’t know the destination or what the final outcome will be at the start, but I discover and uncover the path as I go along. With a number of tricks I can manipulate and control what the visuals are doing in real-time. To produce a video that I can upload, I capture the visuals live and as I don’t work with a timeline I need to repeat the captures until I’m happy. 

No Escape by Grif 

DC: This work looks really intense. Do we have an escape? 

SG: I think the piece visualises the illusion of escape, the character is walking but never seems to progress from their position, the build up of webbed restraints shows us that now matter how hard they push, there will be more to drag them back into this toxic cycle. This could be interpreted as addiction, or dependency, or even memory 

Tied to the Past by Maalavida

DC: In your works you play a lot with a colourful liquid formation. Does it play a role in depicting a Solaris, collective consciousness? Or is it something else in your meaning?

AM: I love the idea of a collective consciousness. I’m not sure I can one hundred percent say that is what I usually achieve, but I tend to believe that I’m trying to depict feelings that are part of the common experience that is life. 

Natural Habitat by Piano and the Fox

DC: I adore your character’s animation. Can you tell a little bit more about the idea or a concept behind your work? 

PF: For my character designs, I love cats and I get inspired a lot from different cat breeds, I pick funny looking ones and I try to recreate them in 3d with smooth geometric shapes, I love 3d modelling. I try to follow design trends very closely.

Enter One by Daniel Taylor

DC: Do you think humanity will abandon Earth for other planets? 

DT: I most definitely think humanity will abandon Earth, it’s more a question of when. I just hope we’ll learn from our mistakes and not destroy everything we touch. 

Peach Gardens by Sasha Katz

DC: What was the idea behind this work? Is that all about internet censorship or body positivity?

SK: The idea behind this work is non-toxic sexualization of the female body from the female point of view. Loving and accepting and never judging. 

ICY by Antoni Tudisco

Tudisco grew up in Hamburg, Germany — and started getting approached by commercial clients after he published sketches and rough renderings on Facebook a couple of years ago — and says he’s recently recognised a rise in big brands like Balenciaga started incorporating animations in their work.

Connection by Federico Clapis

DC: In your recent work you speak for a future generation. Do you think the world will be more polarised or united? And what role can the next generation (right after Z) play in it?

FC: For a long time, before a union is reached, the world will be polarized by a generation gap. The only thing I’m sure about the role of generation, that Gen-Z will see a couple generations die to hold back and oppose and will make a quantum leap to establish a new world

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