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World’s First Curated Exquisite Corpse on the Blockchain in 2021
Exquisite Workers Collective Joins the NFT Revolution.
Hey, readers! 👋✨ Are you ready for some big, BIG news?
We’re about to share something truly groundbreaking! The Exquisite Workers collective is making waves by bringing the world’s first curated Exquisite Corpse to the blockchain. 🚀🖼️
Get ready to dive into this exciting new chapter as we embrace the NFT and AI space in 2021. Stay tuned — this is just the beginning! 🎉
Almost a year before Beeple would thrust digital art into the spotlight with his historical auction in Christie’s, a group of artists-friends created their own life-changing digital art-piece, inspired by the immortal tradition of Exquisite Corpse.
At the time, similar to other artists living in Spain, we were struggling to cope with the lockdown. We had to give up a project to draw the community wall in the city of Barcelona as we were forced to stay at home for 100 days. To engage ourselves in a nice alternative to painting the physical mural, we began the creation of the Digital Exquisite Corpse. This was produced in the shape of a snake and was posted daily on an Instagram feed according to the colour palette agreed among illustrators. Each of us created a singular piece…