Canadian public art exhibition organization Vancouver Biennale is preparing to unveil an art installation that combines physical and digital realities with blockchain technology.
The new Voxel Bridge installation is a blockchain-based augmented reality experience can be viewed with iOS or Android devices. According to local enthusiasts, the installation is getting ready for the public launch and will run until spring 2023.
The object is a 1,800 square meter installation by New York-based artist Jessica Angel that explores how public spaces can be constructed and utilized in both digital and physical realities. Shaped in the real world in the form of a massive two-dimensional vinyl mural, the piece also simultaneously exists in augmented reality through the app and resides on a blockchain network.
Viewers can specifically see, touch and hear the history via twenty different interactive animations, with each of those being represented in the form of a unique nonfungible token (NFT) existing on the blockchain. The NFTs will be sold on the Kusama art marketplace RMRK, with funds directed to offset the cost of producing the project, which reportedly went over-budget at more than $300,000.
