December, 2021.

This is a One Slice Toaster by Quixotic Bravado: Mini-projects, experiments, prototypes, and interesting art and technology diversions.

Idea:

• Experiment with AI-ish (Artificial Intelligence) generative art and the technology and tools behind it
• Do something creative with blockchain records of geographic locations
• Produce some artwork NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)
• Gauge interest in this kind of imagery in larger formats and ongoing creation of more artwork projects
• Use all of the above for learnings toward other programs in development here at Quixotic Bravado

Skip the story and go right to the Real, Made-up Places Art Gallery for Brooklyn.

RMP Art: Samurai Mama – Place #253

RMP Art: Black Rabbit – Place #208

Story:

Sitting at the crossroads of geo-data, blockchain, and web3 is an interesting project called Places. Its mission is to create NFTs (non-fungible tokens) based on geographic locations as open data on the Ethereum blockchain. Each NFT contains basic information about the location: Name, address, coordinates, and a few descriptive attributes. Check them out.

There's also a growing art scene around generative art. This is AI, neural, and machine learning tools and programs which can take a descriptive prompt (or sentence) and interpret this into imagery.

So the question that led to this project: If someone took the data from a Places DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) NFT and used it as a prompt for an AI artwork commission – What would they get?