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From 15-21 November Lugano Living Lab has promoted an unprecedented exhibition that explores the fascinating world of NFTs and Crypto Art with an exhibition, events and dedicated workshops.
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- An unmissable opportunity to explore this new sector of digital art, learn about the protagonists, languages and fields of application to try to understand it better. Lugano is increasingly a Blockchain&Crypto-Friendly City. After the launch at the end of 2020 of the MyLugano app, the LVGA Points citizen payment token and the recent creation of 3Achain, the institutional blockchain promoted by the city, this time it is the turn of NFTs with an exhibition of art and technology entirely dedicated to understanding this emerging and extremely current phenomenon.
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Description
- NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens) are a cryptographic system that allows you to provide proof of authenticity and ownership. Applied in the field of digital art, they make it possible to certify the uniqueness and scarcity of a work, which, as it is digital, is easily replicable or reproducible, but which is, so to speak, made rare by its registration in the Blockchain. NFT is therefore not the work or even an artistic phenomenon, but the corresponding certification registered on the blockchain.
This is an epochal paradigm shift that opens up new and interesting scenarios for the art market and which among its merits has had to unleash enormous creative potential by providing a dimension to artistic languages, expressions and grammars hitherto marginalized by the traditional art system, thanks to a strong push from below.
The exhibition promoted by Lugano Living Lab, the digital and technological innovation laboratory of the city of Lugano, will be held from 15-21 November at Villa Ciani with exhibitions, events and workshops dedicated to understanding this phenomenon.
On the ground floor of Villa Ciani, the exhibition entitled “The Future is Unwritten”, curated by Ivan Quaroni and Linda Tommasi, was presented. In this context, a selection of works chosen from the hundreds that make up the Poseidon Group collection, one of the largest and most conspicuous in Europe, has been proposed. Among these, customers were able to admire the works of internationally renowned artists who played a key role in the explosion of the Crypto Art phenomenon such as Beeple, XCOPY, Hackatao and Dangiuz, Federico Clapis, Skycoup, Fabio Giampietro, Raphael Lacoste, Giovanni Motta, Andre Chiampo together with two examples of the famous Cryptopunks of Larva Labs. Alongside this exceptional team, the curators have selected a group of young or new artists in the NFT universe, such as Niro Perrone, Nicola Caredda, Giuseppe Veneziano, Adriana Glaviano and Giò Roman, for the quality and originality of their works. - The first floor of Villa Ciani was instead dedicated to gaming enthusiasts with an exhibition of digital and collectible works. Visitors were thus able to discover NFTs developed by Lugano companies, including Crypto Heroes, a game based on NFTs and the NFT Gaming protocol by Noku, the online 3D entertainment platform The Nemesis by UNDO Studios, which combines the technology of virtual worlds with that of gaming and gamification, as well as NFTs of luxury products and jewelry made by Luxochain. It was also possible to see the NFTs of Axie Infinity, the most famous blockchain game NFT in the world, as well as Cryptogene and Scriblet Clubhouse with Shifty Shepherds designed by Juliet Duplessie developed by Sortium, three projects in which Pangea, a fund specialized in investments in blockchain projects with offices in Lugano, participated with investments in seed capital. Finally, for sports fans, it was possible to admire the NFTs of Topps, a multinational company that has been a leader in the sports collectibles sector for years.
On the first floor, there was also a station where the digital subjects of the first Swiss Post Crypto Stamp (a physical stamp associated with digital NFT representations) developed by Swiss Post and which will be launched on 25 November (find out more at https://crypto-stamp.post.ch/it?t).
As part of the exhibition, throughout the week, spectators were also able to participate in the creation of the first citizen NFT of Lugano by taking part in the creation of a collective artistic work. This first “Luganese NFT” was then created in a limited edition and a numbered copy was transmitted to all those who contributed to its creation.
As part of the festival, Lugano Living Lab offers a Talk entitled “The NFT World” in which business and academic experts have explored various fields of application of the tool and a workshop “Create your NFT” to allow anyone who wishes to create their first NFT in a few simple steps. - When
from 15 November 2021
to 21 November 2021
Dove
Villa Ciani
Independence Square 4
CH—6900 Lugano
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Tourism, culture and leisure
Acknowledgements
- Swiss Post
Poseidon Group
SUPSI Information Systems and Networking Department
Programma
- Inauguration of Lugano NFT Week — Non Fungible Tangible
- Monday, November 15, 2021
At 17.00
The following intervened:
- Pietro Poretti, Director of the Economic Development Division of the City of Lugano
- Luca Maria Dicorato, Director of the Culture Division of the City of Lugano
- Ivan Quaroni, curator of the NFT exhibition “The Future is Unwritten”
- Maggie Rokkum-Testi, “The Future is Now” NFT Gaming & Collectibles Exhibition
- The post office: Martina Bellodi, Regional Manager of Ticino Posta
- Monday, November 15, 2021
- Show NFT: The Future is Unwritten.
Curated by Ivan Quaroni and Linda Tommasi
- 15-21 November
Lugano, Villa Ciani
MON-FRI/ 11.00-18.30
SAT/09.00-18.30
- 15-21 November
- NFT Gaming & Collectibles Show:
The Future is Now
- 15-21 November
Lugano, Villa Ciani
MON-FRI/ 11.00-18.30
SAT/09.00-18.30
- 15-21 November
- Preview: Swiss Crypto Stamp
A project by Swiss Post
- 15-21 November
Lugano, Villa Ciani
- 15-21 November
- Workshop: Create your NFT
with Luca Ambrosini, Blockchain expert and researcher at the SUPSI Institute of Information Systems and Networking
- November 17
17.00-18.00
Lugano, Villa Ciani
- November 17
- Talk: The NFT World
- With: Lars Schlichting (KC): what is an NFT, Roberto Gorini (Noku): NFT gaming, Alessandro de Grandi (Nemesis): NFT in the metaverses, Luca Ambrosini (Pepper): NFT in the world of play to earn. Moderated by Amelia Tomasicchio
November 18
from 17.00-19.00
Lugano, Villa Ciani
- With: Lars Schlichting (KC): what is an NFT, Roberto Gorini (Noku): NFT gaming, Alessandro de Grandi (Nemesis): NFT in the metaverses, Luca Ambrosini (Pepper): NFT in the world of play to earn. Moderated by Amelia Tomasicchio
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