Landmark DDP looks to future with planned NFT release

“about caffeine” by Kindrgartn [SHIN MIN-HEE]

 
The long-lasting spaceship-like landmark Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Jung District, central Seoul, is roofed with 45,133 silver panels.
 
Within the close to future, Seoul Design Basis plans so as to add worth to that quantity when it points 45,133 nonfungible tokens (NFTs) — one for every panel — and offers token homeowners with a wide range of advantages.
 

It is one of many basis’s newest initiatives to combine the most recent digital developments into main public areas.
 
The venture continues to be in its early phases, and little has been determined, together with the platform on which the NFTs will likely be bought.
 
For now, individuals can get a glimpse of 20 NFTs chosen by way of a contest held by the muse earlier this 12 months.
 

“P.P (Possessory Public)” by Wang Da-yeon [SHIN MIN-HEE]

 
“□ To The Future” is an exhibition on the DDP’s NFT Gallery on the third ground of the Design Corridor, through which every of the NFTs tells a narrative about Net 3.0, video artwork, world warming or private media. The clean sq. within the identify represents the “potential of what the long run holds,” the muse mentioned.
 
Some referenced the DDP constructing of their NFTs, like Wang Da-yeon. Kim00 (pronounced “Kim-ddaeng-ddaeng”) and Mo Jun-seok.
 
In Wang’s “P.P (Possessory Public),” the artist imagined all 45,133 panels as separate tv screens with totally different images of the DDP on them. Kim00’s “Flying by way of Time” took a extra futuristic method and devised a dystopian house model of the DDP.
 
Then there may be “about caffeine” by Kindrgartn, which imagines a future when espresso has gone extinct, and an image of a espresso bean hangs on a museum wall with a big crowd looking at it. Though the work was depicted lightheartedly as pixel artwork, the premise would say in any other case.
 
“□ To The Future” continues till Sept. 10. The DDP is open each day from 10 a.m. to eight p.m. The exhibition is free.
 

“Flying by way of time” by Kim00 [SHIN MIN-HEE]

BY SHIN MIN-HEE [shin.minhee@joongang.co.kr]