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‘Let’s push the boundaries’: NFC summit wins awards, AI and ‘post-human modernism’
Lisbon’s iconic Carlos Lopes Pavilion welcomed more than 5,000 participants during the third edition of the NFC Summitfor an “immersive program on digital culture” mixing art, fashion, video games, cinema and beach parties.
More than 260 speakers gathered to discuss topics ranging from Bitcoin Ordinals to meme tokens, with artists and personalities from the NFT space, including Beeple, Deekaymotion, Claire Silver, Punk6529 and Patrick Amadon, discussing their work.
Digital artist Mike ‘Beeple’ Winkelmann. Image: NFC Summit
“I find it really exciting, I think we are experiencing a kind of photographic renaissance,” said conceptual artist Kevin Abosch, speaking at a conference on “post-human modernism.”
Abosch spoke about his recent project “Civic education,” a series of AI-generated “synthetic photos” depicting protests and civil disobedience. “Don’t tell me how honest ‘real’ photography is, it can be more dishonest than anything else,” he said, arguing that photographed subjects are “aware” of the cameras’ presence. “And conversely, a synthetic photograph can be imbued with more honesty than that of a traditional photograph.”
The first AIFA Awards, organized as part of NFC Lisbon, rewarded the work of AI filmmakers. The AImagine Award for Best Film was won by “Denny the Shark” created by the collaborative duo Ethereal Moon, consisting of Melody Bossan (aka LeMoon) and Dina Lockamy (aka Ethereal Gwirl).
“We’re trying to prove this idea that emerging technology is opening the field globally,” said Leo Crane, co-founder of the AI Film Academy. said Decrypt. He argued that the awards demonstrate AI’s ability to empower creators, allowing them to “truly compete with multi-million dollar films in a way that simply wasn’t possible before.”
The NFC Summit also saw the second edition of the ABS Digital Art Prizeawarded to the work of French artist RVig “The evil flowers.” The work reinterprets the poetry of Charles Baudelaire as a series of ribbons that “evolve and flow according to the structure of the poetry.”
“Art is constantly evolving,” RVig said after receiving the award. “Today, digital art and NFTs still face skepticism. But in my humble opinion, we can all take inspiration from Charles Baudelaire: let’s push the limits.
Edited by Stacy Elliott.