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Bright Moments, the DAO-driven roving NFT arts festival, has arrived in Tokyo, offering a live experience of the smashing of generative Ethereum NFT artworks spanning multiple locations, three digital art collections, and dozens of notable artists. The primary venue features a custom arcade game cabinet decorated with pixel art surrounded by towering video screens and a mirrored floor that gives the space a surreal allure.
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The Tokyo event will be held in the heart of Shibuya, where up to 1,000 participants will be able to punch a CryptoTokyoite, one of 10,000 total pixel avatars serving as a membership pass to the Bright Moments DAO.
Aside from the minting experience, the venue will also showcase Bright Moments Tokyo’s Japanese Contemporary collection and the AI Art Collection, the festival’s first dedicated AI collection. The latter features new work from 11 artists producing AI-assisted work, including Claire Silver, Pindar Van Arman, Kevin Abosch, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.
According to founder Seth Goldstein, “This collection offers hope for transformation in the midst of today’s cultural and technological zeitgeist.”
The week-long event is not limited to one location. The Kyu Asakara House in Shibuya City presents a more traditional Japanese home and tea garden featuring generative works by 11 artists, including Jeff Davis, Lars Wander, Kim Asendorf and Zancan.
Despite fluctuations in ETH prices and changing appetites for tokenized artwork, the model of pre-selling NFT coin passes to fund world travelers in real life remains viable, as Bright Moments has proven with its world travelers NFT art festival.
The event successfully achieved the intended atmosphere of “Cirque du Soleil meets Coinbase”, creating a distinctive gray area between purely digital and real art experiences.
Josh Goldstein, Chief Experience Officer of Bright Moments, said: “So much of what we’re doing is a result of the pandemic. The pandemic was, you know, taking the basketball and shoving it under the water – and Bright Moments is about just letting the ball in jumping the air. That’s kind of the momentum we’re trying to follow through this.”
Bright Moments will continue to draw crowds and showcase its unique blend of NFTs and real-life experiences. The festival’s commitment to accountability in the blockchain space, while connecting with people emotionally, viscerally and physically in a way that cannot be achieved through purely on-chain transactions, sets it apart and bodes well for the future good luck.
Bright Moments will then move to Buenos Aires in October and then to another city in early 2024 that is still being voted on by DAO members, eventually leading to a return to Venice Beach next year.
