NFTs are all the rage now. And although most NFT artworks are simply a rather non-immersive picture or video, the Mars House isn’t. This piece of virtual real estate is “comprised entirely of light”, and “the visual effects of her crypto-home are meant to omit a Zen, healing atmosphere”. It’s also accompanied by a musical score provided by The Smashing Pumpkins – so it’s also yet another musical NFT project.
Digital Real Estate
The Mars House – which recently sold for $500k – was created by artist Krista Kim, a contemporary artist and the creator of the art movement known as Techism. True to the tenets of her vision in which the real world and cyberspace are slowly fusing together, the Mars House can be ported into a metaverse (virtual world) of the buyers’ choice.
Kim doesn’t see this as a one-off experience though – in fact, she predicts that in the not-so-distant future, we may be living in Augmented Reality.
“Right now, a lot of the [NFT] art that’s currently available on platforms, it’s a very limited parameter of how you can present the art. It’s presented, basically, as a digital file, a beautiful drawing or video on your screen, but my intention was to look beyond that. For me, I actually foresee that we will be living in an augmented reality lifestyle within a very short period.”
Kim commented that her artwork is the beginning of the next generation of NFT art – and that in the future we should expect to see digital customization to people the same way we currently see tattoos.
In fact, this digital customization has already started, with fashion accessories that you can customize by coding them – and coupled with events such as Crypto Fashion Week, the design choices of people both in reality and in virtual environments may be closer than ever to fusing together.
