Martin Lukas Ostachowski (b. 1984, Poland)
Keyhole to the Rabbit Hole, 2022
Video / 3:00 / loop / color / 3840 x 2160 px
Curated by Dalbin / Minted on SuperRare
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The discovery of crypto technologies, ethos, and values are often compared with a fall down the rabbit hole. News headlines, catchphrases, and buzzwords have elevated the crypto and NFT environment to a so-called promised land. Media stories of overnight successes and disproportionate gains have led to a virtual gold rush, establishing false promises and unrealistic expectations.
This once welcoming environment is changing, making it difficult for newcomers to navigate a space that is now filled with noise, distractions, traps, scams, and fraud. The influx of new people and capital naturally attracted hoards of bad actors, including venture capitalists, celebrities, and influencers turned opportunists.
In this environment, many genuine communities have started protecting themselves and demanding newcomers prove themselves if they are adding value or extracting it. The time of open doors and rolled-out red carpets seems over, at least for now.
Animation of 5,400 individual Python-processed video frames based on recorded aerial videos and scanned sets of rubber-stamp marks.
About the artist
Martin Lukas Ostachowski
Born in 1984, Poland
Lives and works in Montreal, QC, Canada
Martin Lukas Ostachowski (MLO) is an award-winning new media and crypto artist based in Montreal, QC, Canada. He explores the blockchain through clouds both as a subject and a medium. He has created crypto art and NFTs since 2018, co-authored a published position paper on crypto art in 2019 and documented the history of crypto art since 2020, gaining himself the nickname of crypto art historian.
Artist Statement
My main art subject, as well as “medium,” are clouds. Their continuous transformation in the sky has been fascinating to me as a traveller for a long time. Since I was four, I have always been captivated by clouds, be it as a frequent flyer for work or when travelling for personal reasons. I started observing, photographing and recording cloud formations, specifically through the window of an airplane. Their aesthetics, combined with their deep symbolism throughout cultures and time, is a constant source of inspiration I explore through a wide range of physical and digital mediums.
My current body of work explores the architecture of blockchain technology, which first occurred to me as a game-changer for limiting digital art distribution. Through the subject of clouds, I explore this topic as a contemporary symbol of data storage and connectivity, representing transformation and hope for fair global distribution of opportunity and wealth. Through data visualizations, animations and digital and physical pieces, I aim to make this complex technology accessible to spark discussions on the blockchain’s profound transformative potential for society.
In my art, clouds and technology are inseparable. They exist together in a sustainable ecosystem where sometimes playing as the subject, sometimes as the “medium.” Interchangeable, they live in a specular complementary balance, where these new “digital clouds” represent my biggest passions, in addition to my life and my identity.
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