Background
The evolution of digital technology has enabled people around the world to access the same content at the same time and to share the same experience in different time zones. In today's digitized world, where temporal and spatial constraints are fading, what meaning does the experience of the present moment have? This work is both Digital Art that can be viewed online and an installation that will be exhibited at NEORT++, a real gallery of Digital Art that opened this spring in Tokyo. This work considers the relationship between NFT and artworks, and the experience of viewing artworks on the screen and in real space.
Point
An artwork consisting of 1000 NFT flowers and the tree that makes them bloom
MOMENT is a cherry blossom-themed work consisting of 1,000 flowers and a cherry blossom tree that combines them. The flowers will be sold as NFT and the minted flowers will bloom on the cherry tree.
Blooming only in spring
This cherry blossom tree only bloom during the spring when the exhibition is held. When the season passes, the blossoms will fall and bloom again in the spring of next year or the year after. Because it is digital data that is unaffected by temporal and spatial constraints, we have created an experience that can be experienced only at this very moment. They are beautiful precisely because they are falling. This work is inspired by the transience and beauty of cherry blossoms. Each NFT flower can be viewed all year round.
First memorable exhibition work at NEORT++
NEORT++ officially opened on April 1, 2022 as an experimental exhibition space for digital art. MOMENT is a work created for this opening. It will remain with the gallery for years and decades to come.
Art
Cherry Blossom (NFT)
MOMENT is an NFT collectible in form of a flower of cherry blossom. Each flower is generated by formulas and programs with unique parameters to reach 1000 editions. Attributes 'Shape', 'CrossSection', 'Color' and 'Distort' will be injected into metadata. All parameters can be seen in background, which make the flower of NFT unique. No rarity is designed, all of them are in flat distribution.
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Made by 
Ayumu Nagamatsu
Ayumu Nagamatsu
Exhibition
MOMENT is the first exhibition for NEORT++, an exhibition space dedicated to digital art that opened in 2022. This digital cherry blossom tree, which flowers only bloom during the spring period, will be exhibited at NEORT++ every year at the beginning of spring.
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Plan in 2022
Donation
Artist Ayumu Nagamatsu will donate all of his proceeds from this work in 2022 to the following organizations.
- Ukrainian Refugee Assistance
- Generative Art Foundation
- OSS and community for p5.js, three.js, etc
※Donations of proceeds were made as planned.
Support for artists' exhibitions in NEORT++
NEORT's revenue will be used to create a new exhibition with an artist each month and try to build a new Digital Art experience.
Annual digital cherry blossom viewing
This cherry blossom tree blooms every spring. When spring arrives, let's all gather together for an online digital cherry blossom viewing.
Team
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Ayumu Nagamatsu
Artist
避雷
Artist
tarumi
Developer
Toshi
CEO of NEORT
wildmouse
Developer
NEORT
Developer / Gallery
