Crypto Gems
A Playform Studio Exhibition by Anne Spalter
Digital art pioneer Anne Spalter presents in collaboration with Playform Studio, Crypto Gems, exclusively available on MakersPlace. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Spalter explores the concepts of tokens and virtual gems as it relates to the emergence of NFTs. As the art world approaches a new realm of buying, selling and exhibiting, Crypto Gems both investigates and also inhabits the world of NFTs as a modern-day gold rush; Where the token itself is a precious commodity, yet lies in blockchain infrastructure. Crypto Gems asks viewers what it might mean to be an owner of these kinds of virtual tokens, and what the NFT commodity itself might mean for the future of the art.
Spalter has incorporated Playform AI into several exhibitions, including Spring/Break Art Show in Los Angeles and New York City, Microscope Gallery, National Humanities Center, SuperRare, and in a current show at the Saint Kate Arts Hotel where Crypto Gems was featured as wallpaper. The 8 artificial intelligence bred gem collections are available as NFTs only on MakersPlace. Once a collector has purchased the work, they have access to a large-scale print by inputting a one-time code. The NFT will also be accompanied by a Verisart certificate with a signature from the artist.
Print and Display Your Art in Your Preferred Medium
Physical Print + NFT
Each collector up to December 31, 2023 can claim a complimentary large-scale print signed for the artist.
Hi-res Image File
You will get access to a 10,000x10,000 high resolution, print-quality image file to print or display as you like.
Verisart Certification
All NFTs and accompanying prints are certified by Verisart and include a digital signature from the artist.
Gem Group 1
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 2
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 3
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 4
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 5
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 6
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 7
Anne Spalter, 2021
Gem Group 8
Anne Spalter, 2021
About Anne Spalter
Digital mixed-media artist Anne Spalter is an academic pioneer who founded the original digital fine arts courses at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s and authored the internationally taught textbook, The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Her artistic process combines a consistent set of personal symbols with a hybrid arsenal of traditional mark-making methods and innovative digital tools. A new body of work, further developed at a Winter 2019 residency at MASS MoCA, combines artificial intelligence algorithms with oil paint and pastels. She is currently creating work for the blockchain.
Spalter is also noted for her large-scale public projects. MTA Arts commissioned Spalter to create a 52-screen digital art installation, New York Dreaming, which remained on view in one of its most crowded commuter hubs (Fulton Center) for just under a year. Spalter’s 2019 large-scale projects included a 47,000 square foot LED video work on the Hong Kong harbor.
Spalter’s work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK); the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI); The Museum of CryptoArt, and others. Alongside her studio practice, Spalter continues to lecture on digital art practice and theory.
Artist Talk with Anne Spalter
Artist Anne Spalter shares the process behind her latest NFT series, Crypto Gems.
Recording from June 24, 2021.