KALEN IWAMOTO

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THE WRITING ON THE WALL by Kalen Iwamoto is a generative, conceptual series that plays with the visual and discursive codes of the art world. In a nod to the Conceptual Art movement and its focus on text and dematerialisation, this series uses the form of the artwork label to invite viewers and readers to imagine the speculative artworks advanced by artificial intelligence. This AI was trained on the artist’s previous artwork descriptions and further prompted to create outputs evoking conceptual works of the future that grapple with art, language, and technology. The resulting labels blur the lines between poetic and expository texts, while raising questions about the nature of art, interpretation and representation in the future.

KALEN IWAMOTO | THE WRITING ON THE WALL

View the NFT (Tezos) on <a href="https://objkt.one/t/76">objkt.one</a>.
ABOUT EXPANDED.ART x objkt.one All NFTs (1 of 1s) will be available via auctions on objkt.one on August 31, 6 PM CET. ABOUT THE WORK Invoking Debord's notion of psychogeography and Jorn's visual rendering of it in their art book MÉMOIRES, this speculative visual poem written by Kalen Iwamoto and produced by Wen New atelier plays with the dialectic of presence and absence of the human subject in an imagined metaversal geography. 
Appropriating, or détourning, the language of maps, the poem interpolates and effaces the human subject in a single gesture, introducing the notion of the subject by pronouncing its absence. 
This void leaves a trace of nostalgia and longing, but also a space of pure potentiality—a precondition for the emergence of another kind of subject that refuses to engage with machines and nature in a relationship of otherness. 
The disappearance of the subject is also an oblique, self-referential allusion to the lack of ego and subjectivity in conceptual writing.

Topography of Absence

Kalen Iwamoto is one of the co-founders of theVERSEverse, a poetry NFT gallery where poem = work of art. Together with Ana Maria Caballero and Sasha Stiles, she empowers writers creatively and financially, celebrates the rise of crypto-native poetry, and onboards acclaimed writers to Web3. As an artist and poet, she explores the intersection of art and language on the blockchain. Her work takes blockchain technology and crypto culture as its point of departure and focuses on playfulness, exploration, and experimentation to push the boundaries of the NFT medium and of conceptual writing and art.

In conversation with Anika Meier, Iwamoto discusses writing and poetry, blockchain and AI, and the dialogue between art and language.

AI AND POETRY ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

KALEN IWAMOTO: BRINGING THE PAGE INTO THE LITERARY ARTWORK

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REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954–2024

TECHNO TERRAIN: NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE explores the dynamic relationship between nature and the digital realm. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through a mesmerizing fusion of AI-driven digital art, nostalgia-infused landscapes, and the limitless possibilities of the metaverse.



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