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Drop02 - 16.03.22
The world’s first microbiological art heist - we illicitly swab* organic material from the surface of famous artworks in museums and galleries worldwide... and then leg it...
Back in our laboratory we mutate living artists and resurrect dead painters by growing new artworks directly from the swabs taken of masterpieces by Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Lichtenstein and Banksy at museums the MoMA, NY + The Tate, LDN + Moco, AMS.
These living, macroscopic, time-lapse loops become our NFTs - New Fungus Tokens.
It’s Alive !!!
THE RE-MATERIALISATION OF MATISSE
THE PICASSO PARTICLE
MICRO-POLLOCK
BIOLOGICAL BANKSY
FRANKENSTEIN-LICHTENSTEIN
+ a mega-mutant, created by cross contaminating three plates:
Pollock x Matisse x Banksy = POLLOCK DANCES WITH A SMILING COPPER.
*this mutant is ONLY available to existing DAT holders.
*Please note - no works of art were harmed in this process.
The world’s first microbiological art heist - we illicitly swab* organic material from the surface of famous artworks in museums and galleries worldwide... and then leg it...
Back in our laboratory we mutate living artists and resurrect dead painters by growing new artworks directly from the swabs taken of masterpieces by Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Lichtenstein and Banksy at museums the MoMA, NY + The Tate, LDN + Moco, AMS.
These living, macroscopic, time-lapse loops become our NFTs - New Fungus Tokens.
It’s Alive !!!
THE RE-MATERIALISATION OF MATISSE
THE PICASSO PARTICLE
MICRO-POLLOCK
BIOLOGICAL BANKSY
FRANKENSTEIN-LICHTENSTEIN
+ a mega-mutant, created by cross contaminating three plates:
Pollock x Matisse x Banksy = POLLOCK DANCES WITH A SMILING COPPER.
*this mutant is ONLY available to existing DAT holders.
*Please note - no works of art were harmed in this process.
Synopsis
280 char.@datdotxyz NEW FUNGUS TOKENS - The world's first microbiological art heist. Bio-generative artworks grown from organic material collected by illicitly swabbing the surface of masterpieces by Matisse, Pollock, Picasso, Lichtenstein and Banksy.
Drop02 @niftygateway 16.03.22
Drop02 @niftygateway 16.03.22
🌎 The MoMA - New York
THE RE-MATERIALISATION OF MATISSE!
Henri Matisse - Dance 1, 1909
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_(Matisse)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c026a2bfcb26c969bf9fea24f2d854823b4adfd2692c84569da0859f6898b53/Henri-Matisse-Dance-MOMA-ny-swabevidence-DAT.jpg)
Henri Matisse
Dance (1)
Swab evidence
The MoMA
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Dance (1)
Swab evidence
The MoMA
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The Re-Materialisation of Matisse !!
NFT 1/1
︎︎︎Compressed Video (.mp4)
optimised for twitter
+ social media
NFT 1/1
︎︎︎Compressed Video (.mp4)
optimised for twitter
+ social media
The Re-Materialisation of Matisse !
NFT Edition /30
︎︎︎Compressed Video (.mp4)
optimised for twitter
+ social media
NFT Edition /30
︎︎︎Compressed Video (.mp4)
optimised for twitter
+ social media
THE PICASSO PARTICLE.
Pablo Picasso - Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d%27Avignon
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f99d2224f10181936d1a8fb4eb48e0dd20a8be524de4f0054622b0ff55d96725/Pablo-Picasso-LesDemoisellesdAvignon-MOMA-ny-swabevidence-DAT.jpg)
Pablo Picasso
Demoiselles d’Avignon
Swab evidence
The MoMA
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Demoiselles d’Avignon
Swab evidence
The MoMA
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MICRO-POLLOCK
Jackson Pollock - Number 1A, 1948
https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/07/18/momas-jackson-pollock-conservation-project-number-1a-1948/
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d0e5ba88f5aa2ea1cf03efa2e45e175671befa038e6c14aafe389788371ca7e/Jackson-Pollock-Number1A-swabevidence-DAT.jpg)
Jackson Pollock
Number 1A
Swab evidence
The MoMA
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Number 1A
Swab evidence
The MoMA
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🌎 The Moco Museum - Amsterdam
BIOLOGICAL BANKSY
Banksy - Smiling Copper, 2002
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Banksy
Smiling Copper
Swab evidence
The Moco
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Smiling Copper
Swab evidence
The Moco
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🌎 The Tate Modern - London
FRANKENSTEIN-LICHTENSTEIN
Roy Lichtenstein - Whaam! , 1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaam!![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bc160a25c095706422973c6a33514ea74a74be6a2c4cd4a5540276bd86cfb39/Roy-Lichtenstein-Whaam-swabevidence-DAT.jpg)
Lichtenstein
Whaam!
Swab evidence
The TATE
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Whaam!
Swab evidence
The TATE
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🕶️ A/R - Augmented Reality Exhibition 🕶️
> AR.DAT.XYZ
We have installed an unauthorised Augmented Reality (A/R) exhibition in all 3 galleries holding artworks that we swabbed for this drop:
MoMA, NY
The Tate, LDN
Moco Museum, AMS
The first 5 visitors to each of the 3 galleries who post video evidence of their A/R experience will be airdropped an edition from Matisse x Picasso mutant /45.
(15 in total, 5 for each gallery to airdrop)
Please check out our Twitter for all the info, entry details and which mutants remain to be picked-up...
https://twitter.com/datdotxyz
A/R experience will run until - 6th April 2022.
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The Lab
Quotes
know thyself ‘Turns out I like Keith Haring fungus better than Keith Haring’
- Noah Davis, Christies
source: https://twitter.com/NonFungibleNoah/status/1454187236757549058
‘Beautiful’
- Pak
source: https://twitter.com/muratpak/status/1443536771921416199
‘Neither science nor the arts can be complete without combining their separate strengths. Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science.’
– E.O. Wilson, Biologist
source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J49BEqHYDvYC&pg=PA136&lpg
‘Art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.’
- Pablo Picasso
source: https://libquotes.com/pablo-picasso/quote/lbt8m5w
- Noah Davis, Christies
source: https://twitter.com/NonFungibleNoah/status/1454187236757549058
‘Beautiful’
- Pak
source: https://twitter.com/muratpak/status/1443536771921416199
‘Neither science nor the arts can be complete without combining their separate strengths. Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science.’
– E.O. Wilson, Biologist
source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J49BEqHYDvYC&pg=PA136&lpg
‘Art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.’
- Pablo Picasso
source: https://libquotes.com/pablo-picasso/quote/lbt8m5w