Land of Nod

OmniArtVerse launches the project: Land of Nod by Paolo Bufalini curated by Treti Galaxie

For its debut, OmniArtVerse invited artist Paolo Bufalini to design a hybrid project between digital art production and the physical space, which the artist dedicated to the complex interactions that exist between intimacy, technology, privacy, trust, control, perfectibility and profitability of the body. Thus was born Land of Nod, edited by Treti Galaxie (italy-based curatorial duo-team composed by Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini), which takes up the English idiomatic expression to be in the land of Nod, synonymous with asleep. The starting point of Land of Nod is the recording of biometric data of Bufalini's partner during an entire night sleep. The registration, carried out via a wearable monitoring device, provides a sort of portrait in the form of data, then registered as an NFT on the Blockchain and commercialized starting from February 2, 2023 via the Nifty Gateway platform. The artist documented this process through a photograph taken with the optical bench, in collaboration with the photographer Marcello Galvani. The apparent incorporeality of the digital realm is therefore counterbalanced by the materiality of analog photography. The project is accompanied by the text “From the Dream Experiments Collection”, written by Treti Galaxie and published on OmniArtVerse website: a science-fiction tale, set against the background of a conflict between humanity and a widespread digital entity, in which Land of Nod seems to play a key role. Land of Nod, commissioned by OmniArtVerse and produced with the support of Foundation for Art and Blockchain is launched in conjunction with beloved, a solo exhibition by Paolo Bufalini curated by the curatorial/editorial duo Condylura at Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio (February 2-12, 2023), as part of the eleventh edition of ART CITY Bologna. The Sleeper (life-size) will be exhibited in the show for the first time.

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