A collection of unique generative NFT's

NFT DEB Generative Dimensions invites scientists, engineers, and artists to the Hortobágy Natural Reserve, the most frequently visited Central-European site by migratory fowl species. We aim to provide original solutions to a large-scale climatic issue by studying the natural phenomena of avian migration through data. The hackathon will challenge participants to invent creative and sustainable NFTs for avian migratory-related social and ecological causes.

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The NFT DEB hackathon develops solutions to the global avian migratory crises through various art projects using data and artificial neural networks. The works will be minted on a blockchain as a collective creation, exhibited, and auctioned. Birds that migrate through the African-Eurasian Flyway compose three main groups: Waterbirds, Landbirds, and Raptors. These birds face various threats throughout their migration, from habitat loss to illegal killing, most of them being anthropogenic such as pollution or collision course. Change of avian migratory behavior is one of the best-studied phenomena presumably associated with recent climate change, yet to what degree these behavioral changes represent responses to climate warming is still controversial. NFT DEB Generative Dimensions invites scientists, engineers, and artists to the Hortobágy Natural Reserve, the most frequently visited Central-European site by migratory fowl species. The aim is to provide original solutions to a large-scale climatic issue by studying the natural phenomena of avian migration. The hackathon will challenge participants to invent creative and sustainable use of NFTs for social and ecological causes. The hackathon, jointly sponsored by the Modern Art Museum and the City of Debrecen, attempts to critically examine collected data on avian migratory behaviors and provide a comprehensive solution with the help of artificial neural networks and blockchain technology.

 

NFT'S

BARABASILAB

The Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) at Northeastern University, known as the BarabásiLab, which Albert-László Barabási established in 2007, is a thirty-person lab dedicated to a deeper understanding of networks—how they emerge and evolve, what they look like, and how they impact our understanding of complex systems. CCNR’s research spans a wide range of subjects, from protein interactions within a cell to how distant galaxies interact in the cosmic web to what blend of access and performance leads to success in art.

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The lab consists of postdoctoral researchers and students who are working toward their PhDs. They are physicists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, designers–even art historians. In addition to his theoretical breakthroughs in network science, Barabási and his lab are renowned for producing highly creative visualizations that depict the research findings in 2-D and 3-D models. Examples of BarabásiLab’s visualizations have been shown before at the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, and is the subject of a solo show BarabásiLab: Hidden Patterns. at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, and at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

DAIM AGGOTT-HÖNSCH

Born in Budapest some years before the fall of the iron curtain, Daïm Aggott-Hönsch spent his formative years in Szentendre and studied the visual arts as a child under a renowned artist and educator, the late Jenő Zaszlavik.

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After his family's immigration to Canada in the 90s, he spent some years in Oakville, before settling in Toronto. Daïm began his mathematical and algorithmic explorations in the early 2010s, becoming an emerging artist in 2016. In 2019, Daïm joined the burgeoning cryptoart community, shifting his efforts from producing archival prints to issuing natively digital non-fungible tokens (NFT) of his increasingly varied static and dynamic works. Daïm's innovative slow artwork "Ancestral Memories" was a short-listed NFT Awards 2020 nominee and his generative Cryptoblots project was one of the series featured in Sotheby's 2021 Natively Digital auction's Art Blocks lot. His digital works form a part of a number of high-profile collections, including but not limited to Vignesh Sundaresan a.k.a. Metakovan, Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile of Lot 555, and Colborn Bell of the Museum of Crypto Art (MoCA).

MONOTON/MONOKROM

Gergő Sós is a Hungarian artist, living in Veszprém, Hungary, where he teaches applied graphic. Gergő’s favorite concept is minimalism, which emerges both in his music and visual art as he constantly strives for simplicity.

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The love of nature inspired him to create the fusion of monochrome visual art and drone music. In his Monoton/Monokrom project the visual representation of the terrain is transformed into audio with the help of drone music. As he lives in Veszprém, Gergő’s main inspiration is the landscape of Bakony, however he is also amused by the plain, which was the main element of his project with Kodály Filharmónia in Debrecen.

JUDIT NAVRATIL

Navratil’s practice is multivalent, engaging performance, social practices, drawing, video as well as AR / VR and somersaulted realities. The relationship between the real and virtual is personally significant to Judit, as she has moved between several different countries and cultures, and relies on digital means to connect to people and places in an attempt to construct “home.” Navratil uses her body-device to keep balance through her Long Distance Somersault career.

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Navratil earned an MFA in Painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2008 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2019. She is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.

NIKITA FREEBOID

Nikita is a media artist based in Kharkiv (Ukraine) mainly working with XR and AI. Managing VR art festivals, developing art communities (XR Art Ukraine and CryptoArt Ukraine), building virtual galleries in the metaverse.

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Virtual experience Metacouncil was presented at Ars Electronica 2020 (In Kepler’s Gardens). Teaching XR art at Karazin University in Kharkiv, managing and participating in audio-visual jam sessions with electronic music and visual art, curating online exhibitions. As an artist, he is focused on topics of ecological issues, mental health and speculative futures. Passionate about the intersection of arts, social projects, technologies and futurology. More and more he is digging into the production of immersive arts and using game engines, virtual drawing and design tools, DAWs, etc.

NINA KOV

Nina Kov is a choreographer, drone choreographer and film-maker. She completed her MA in Choreography at Laban, London in 2010. Nina is a pioneer in human-drone choreographic interaction. She’s the co-founder and former Artistic Director of “Dancing with Drones”, a project featuring interactive movement between a flock of drones and dancers.

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Her work at the intersection of technology, dance and activism has been shown amongst other places at Sadler’s Wells Lylian Baylis studio, the Royal Opera House Studio, the Science Museum, Sziget Festival. She’s a member of the bodydataspace collective and head of Organized Agitation at the I.U.R. She’s a PlacePrize semi-finalist in 2012, a 2016 recipient of the New Europe 100 award for the InfoAid app for Refugees, and choreographed Kristof Deák’s 2017 Oscar® winning short film “Mindenki” (Sing). Nina is living with Ankylosing Spondylitis.

PETER WEILER

Peter Weiler is a Hungarian multimedia artist working primarily with digital tools. Coming from a family of architects his main focus is the human psyche in the built modern urban environment. His works deal with political and emotional aspects of life under the algorithm driven cyber capitalism.

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Weiler graduated from The Art Institute of Philadelphia in 1996, he earned his MFA in 2021 at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Weiler was the first Hungarian artist to publish and sell an NFT, his second NFT was sold by Gallery Kieselbach on a major fine-art auction.

 

FAQ

What is an NFT?

At the most basic level, a non-fungible token is a one-of-a-kind, verifiable digital asset that can be exchanged between a creator and a buyer. The one-of-a-kind characteristic is important in distinguishing NFTs from other digital assets; one NFT is not interchangeable for another, like a dollar bill or a share of stock, but is unique and has its own value.

What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from the property it represents, which is generally something that exists in the digital world like an original piece of art or digital memorabilia. The NFT itself doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property, but points to its location on the blockchain. Like a concert ticket or a deed to a physical property, an NFT reflects the value of the thing it represents.