remix me at the meet
On March 9th, at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, artists duo Hackatao, curator Eleonora Brizi and the law firm Piselli and Partners presented the conclusion of REMIX ME art project, together with over 40 artists featured in the drop on the NFT platform Makersplace.
Considering that the “remix art” phenomenon has been long-standing in art history, REMIX ME invites the Cryptoart creative community to explore the meaning and implications of remixing a work of art, while investigating it in its manifestation in the world of NFTs and their relationship to copyrights.
The MEET also participated in the “remix” with a geo-localized augmented reality game inside and outside the building through the Illust.ar app.
For the treasure hunt, we created a map designed by Hackatao. During the week preceding the event, we divided the map in three parts and gave out hints for people to understand the geolocation of the artworks.
Here is the three hints, to compose the map and discover where all the artworks of the project REMIX ME were geolocated:
𝟏. 𝑨 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍. 𝑺𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆. 𝑮𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 “𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓”.
𝟐. 𝑰’𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒅 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐, 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔. 𝑺𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚𝒓, 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕.
𝟑. 𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒖𝒎, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒅𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄. 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆.
𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅. 𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝟗𝒕𝒉!
Other than the game, a night of debate was hosted in the theater of the MEET.
Find the panel here:
Remix of Remixes #4 – Omnibus, by Hackatao, is the evidence that harmony results from different chaos, that beauty is beauty from multiple perspectives, and that many truths manifesting through diverse eyes can, however, still be called the truth.
This is a snapshot of the fourth remix of remixes, that crystallizes the look of the dynamic token in this precise moment until the next change, or maybe forever.
A total of 43 artists participated in the REMIX ME art project and are now (re)mixed together, each contributing to the final unique creation by Hackatao with the music by MaterManto.
A confirmation of what we stated at the beginning of this adventure, of what Web3 is about: art, community, today, more than ever. And that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Hackatao, REMIX OF REMIXES #4 – OMNIBUS (detail), 2023
Here is how artists duo Hackatao explained this final work:
“In the creation of Remix Me #4 – Omnibus, where we remixed all 44 artworks of the 43 artists who took part in the project, the challenge was to find a critical point of balance between order and chaos. A work of identifying the detail that could form a harmonious whole, respecting the original meaning of the work, but with that touch of madness to which the act of remixing pushes.
As far as aesthetics are concerned, we have actually stepped out of our comfort zone, going beyond our style of flat colors and drawn flow. With REMIX ME, we questioned ourselves and let ourselves be hacked through the other works. The final meaning of Remix Me #4 – Omnibus is precisely to hack what has already been hacked (remix), to explore a new aesthetic space, the result of what technology makes possible”.
