→ Dotcom Séance
Resurrecting web 1.0 companies with web 3.0
#Art . Web 3 . NFT . AI . CLIP . 2021
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Exhibitions
• HEK → “Exploring the Decentralized Web – Art on the Blockchain” exhibition. Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach und Boris Magrini.
Sept 2023 - Basel, Switzerland
• UNESCO . Creative Cities Network at 海上世界文化藝術中心 → “Not About the Money” exhibition. Curated by RaidenINST - Huang Songhao & Du Xinchen.
Nov 2022 - Shenzhen, China
• Outernet → Solo show. Weekly exhibition at the Now Building in Soho.
Oct 2022 - London, UK
• Kunsthal Charlottenborg → “POST-CAPITAL - Art and the Economics of the Digital Age” exhibition. Curated by Michelle Cotton and produced by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
May 2022 - Copenhagen, Denmark
• MAXXI → “What a Wonderful World” exhibition. Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and MAXXI’s curatorial team.
May 2022 - Rome, Italy
Dotcom Séance is an art project by the mediums Simon Denny, Guile Twardowski, Folia and Cosmographia.
It utilizes the sacred powers of AI and web 3.0 to resurrect the dead companies from the iconic turn of the millennium dotcom crash.
Join the séance and bring the heroes back from the cyber great beyond →
MINT YOURS HERE
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MINT YOURS HERE ☻
Dotcom Séance Installation . Outernet - London 2022 | Courtesy of OuternetArts
F*CKED COMPANIES
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F*CKED COMPANIES →
The economical madness from the turn of the millennia and the story behind it’s protagonists.
The Dotcom Era
In the late 90s, the market was hot, the hype was high and the greed was overflowing in search for the next big “dot-com company”. The venture capital world was booming with a contagious enthusiastic vision around the opportunities hidden in the future of the world wide web.
Millions of dollars were being invested in these early “Internet businesses”. Some with brilliant ideas and dreams (others, not that really). But many of these pioneering companies that were building the early internet ended up having a remarkably short lifespan.
Soon after the turn of the millennium many of these dreams and hopes came suddenly to an end. A wave of dot-com companies declared bankruptcy in 2001 marking the crash and end of the dot-com era.
At the time Simon was obsessed with time and feeding stories of the Web back into itself and the book was the main source of inspiration for him to start conceptualizing the project.
From the catalogue of +130 companies, Simon cherry-picked 21 businesses.
A mix of companies that either had ahead-of-its-time ideas, Web 3.0 related practices or just pure ultimate examples of the stunning wildness of the early days of the web.
490 LOGOS
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490 LOGOS →
We fed the AI with text prompts. Descriptions of those failed companies, arriving to this ↓
THE SYMBIOSIS
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THE SYMBIOSIS →
Here is a diagram of the process behind the cyber séance.
ecircles.com
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“A logo for a 2001 company named “ecircles.com”, an image sharing social network website allowing users to share photos to friends in closed groups”
TXT PROMPT
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TXT PROMPT .
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AI-Generated Logos
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Selected AI Logo
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Final “Human” Logo
✞ Final words
Metaphorically and literally, Dotcom Séance makes the internet remember itself. Is a project that celebrates the long-dead heroes of the past and simultaneously points inwards, reminding us to carefully avoid single-sided naive visions of technologies and our future with them.
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