Spotlight curates ideas and experiments worth collecting. Every two weeks, the Forefront community curates a new capsule in an effort to highlight great work and support creators publishing onchain.
This capsule was curated by Nick Hollins, creator and host of UFO.
CAPSULE 004: Onchain media unlocks new opportunities for collective creation. Capsule 004 highlights some of the projects and experiments at the frontier of onchain collective creation.
These are ideas and experiments worth collecting. Collect to support creators publishing onchain.
Hit ‘em Where it Hurts
The Park is the prototype for a music collective founded on Nouns Builder. I straight up like this band. What appears to be a friends network of musicians recording in Los Angeles, CA. They mint music onchain by DAO proposal, funds go to a treasury with splits and early signs are good for this model.
A New Creative Era
A bright yellow newsstand on 31 Canal St in NYC has a certain joy. Calling for a new paradigm for how creative people relate to one another. Reinventing the record with experiences and artifacts in the physical and digital. Metalabel are the catalysts for a wave of crypto zines.
Several People Are Typing
Foster, Metalabel and Seed Club. Over 100 writers and editors contributed to this physical zine and all benefit from the proceeds. Designs by peacenode help to make it an essential artifact with 16 original stories and essays exploring creative collaboration in the age of decentralized media.
A Place For Music and the New Internet to Crash Into Each Other
Songcamp is among the most adventurous onchain music experiments on the planet. What has been an evolving series of collective projects in the web3 space since 2021 is documented in this report by CHAOS member Frances Miller.
I think it’s time – yung algo ft. Grimes AI
Yung Algorithm produced this track in collab with Grimes AI with a retro early 2000s sound. Grimes is one artist making voice clones of themselves and using AI to make engines for all to produce with. Holly Herndon is a leading voice in this mind bending AI realm for future creative works.
A More Play-Full Future
RADAR is a decentralized global collective of 300+ researchers, early adopters and innovators accelerating better futures. Their reports are playful experiments in collective insights and the web design makes for an immersive learning experience.
WHAT’S GOOD
Collective creation and music is represented in this zine by Refraction + Water and Music, two leading groups in web3 music. Delving into creative applications of artificial intelligence and how AI changes our understanding of artistic practice, economics, and curation.
Gemma Manifesto
Every creative act begins with a yes. Curation transforms creation into a social experience. GEMMA is an artist-led fund adopting the release club model of collective creativity. This is a genesis mint on ZORA.
Boys Club Zine
Boys Club is a social collective, product studio and media company from Brooklyn. A community known for parties, merch, memes and vibes. Their brand offers a new entry for getting involved with the crypto space and print zines are fun.
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