The 105 Collective is thrilled to welcome you to our newest metaverse gallery – Room 105, one of MOCA’s innovative and highly coveted decentralized, engine agnostic, virtual-world-interoperable, 1-of-1 architectural objects.
This one was built by the amazing metaverse architect untitled.xyz and features a fabulous spiral staircase that frankly we think perfectly expresses our elegant yet edgy aesthetic.
When ROOMS were announced, we just knew we had to snag Room 105. The long process (involving an auction to grab the right Floor and entering several raffles in a bid to win a favourite build) was worth the wait: MOCA finally gave us the keys in January, and we’ve just installed it in Voxels with a Genesis Exhibition to give it a little housewarming.
This exhibition features works around four themes – Chance Processes, Metaphysics, Altered States, and Animals. We each chose a theme, then each chose one of our own works related to that theme. More details below.
Chance Processes
egg forest (2023) oculardelusion
This image was created as part of Hunting the Glitch, a collective experiment in which one artist is appointed to create a fictional artist and program an AI to produce work in their specific style. Others then prompt the fictional artist to generate works, which may then be minted. For Epoch 14 of Hunting the Glitch, I acted as lead artist, and my fictional artist’s name was Leona Loona. I also created the prompt for the resulting image. 1/1
GANOODLE / 046-0006 (2022) Stina Jones
From a collection of exploratory character artworks, reflecting the capabilities and idiosyncrasies of nascent generative technologies. See more @ ganoodles.art 2/5
Now There’s A Tragic Waste Of Brutal Youth (2022) Unrealcity
Portrait of a boy on his fifth birthday, augmented with AI mapping and animated by hand. The piece is something to do with how life has to be lived forward, in episodes of random happenstance, but only has meaning backwards, when recast as a narrative directed at the resolution of the present moment. 1/1
Immersion (2020) urben
Part of an ongoing fluid art series using various liquids to visualise a personal interpretation of cosmic forces. 1/1
Metaphysics
Kitchen (2020) oculardelusion
Once in a while, I illustrate my dreams. This one involved someone giving me a full-torso tattoo of fruit, while I sat on a stool in his kitchen. Oddly (or not), this dream – which occurred in 2020 – appears to be in the process of coming true in 2024. Metaphorically speaking. 1/3
Infinity (2023) Stina Jones
The endless plume. 1/1
Silence (2020) urben
Notice the silence between sounds. 1/1
The Language God Talks (2020) Unrealcity
The heart of this piece is a mathematical description of how little of the uranium in Fat Man, the bomb that vaporized Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945, actually reacted. This was used as an AI map in the creation of the blast and mushroom cloud and for the glitched interference pattern that overlays it. The title of this piece refers to Richard Feynman’s imperative to learn calculus because “It’s the language God talks.” 1/1
Altered States
subsumed (i) (2023) oculardelusion
SUBSUMED is a series expressing Self in semi-surrender to not-yet-known states of consciousness composed of digits, pixels and code. Is the essence of being human our capacity to create? Are we made human by our bodies, or our memories? If we augment ourselves with machines, are we less real? subsumed (i) was exhibited at NFTNYC, 12-14 April 2023. 13/23
Arm One Woman & Leave (2022) Unrealcity
Sculpture of found objects: shop mannequin, rosary beads, fridge magnets, scallop shells, Christmas decorations, copper foil, model parts, conduit. Photographed and digitally completed. I once thought life had no further use for me. Then someone told me a truth, and everything changed, although nothing did. 1/1
[ ● - ◎ ] (2023) Stina Jones
Digital mixed-media work exploring converging states of perception, connection, and artistic realities. 1/1
Saturnine (2020) urben
Third collaboration between urben and Jokreg, a new music/art analogy. Relaxing, but at the same time mysterious and slightly disturbing. A smoky intangible fluid like the vortex of thoughts in our mind. 1/1
Animals
the rabbit and the moon tree (2023) oculardelusion
See notes for egg forest, above.. 1/1
Inktober #1 (2019) Stina Jones
Capturing a moment of spontaneous creativity for the daily drawing challenge, Inktober. 1/1
Oxford Street Is Full Of Rat Things (2020) Unrealcity
In Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash, Rat Things are biomechanical guard units. Powered by a nuclear reactor, Rat Things must constantly move faster than the eye can see to get enough air across their cooling fins to prevent catastrophic melt down. Rat Things live lives of uninterrupted destruction until, inevitably, they collide with a solid obstacle and destroy themselves. Snow Crash is much beloved in the cryptospace, and although I find it problematic it rewards an allegorical reading, as do Rat Things themselves. 1/1
Chroma Bear Paw (2020) Vansdesign and urben
A collaboration combining digitally generated animations as a source of colours and reflections and analogue techniques without computer effects or animations to capture oils and liquids. 1/1