REMEMBER ME

A Story About Us

Remember Me (2022), was a conceptual project highlighting the sociological impacts and patterns found in the NFT culture during its 2021-2022 bull market. Experimenting with concepts of time, transience of nature, and archival qualities of blockchain technology, this installation was both a celebration and critique of the cultural movement. Utilizing attributes native to the blockchain and metaphors drawn from the Dutch Tulip Mania tale, Remember Me followed a tulip’s lifecycle in four chapters - Birth, Life, Afterlife, and Memory.

Released as a free 24 hour Open Edition on April 11th, 2022. This token was minted in over 39,000 wallets.

A stop motion video of a tulip taken over 5 days was inverted back into 1000 still images. Each image was programmed to sequentially update every 7 minutes to mirror the original time lapse. Automatically reflected in their wallets, viewers were encouraged to observe the flora growing in “real time'“ by refreshing the metadata. Open’s Sea’s interface reflected each user’s interaction with the artwork, naturally displaying a collection of tulips developing at various stages of the cycle. The penultimate stage revealed itself in the Afterlife, a ghostly garden of transparent tulips.

Mirroring the ephemeral nature of the Afterlife series. after two weeks the tulips disintegrated and all works were left as a blank screen, or a Memory. Inside the Memory token, all assets are readily viewable and archived in the smart contract. This project was a live performance programmed to happen once and never again. The blockchain is used as a permanent storage to house all 1000+ digital assets and recorded time stamps of each phase while the ephemeral artwork shown on the token juxtaposes this concept entirely.

Remember Me is a time capsule that observed the impact of social media, speculative value, and digital assets in the digital marketplace. With a foreshadowing narrative, it represents a historic period of the social frenzy told through the life cycle of a single tulip. This project continually aims to observe the cultural impact NFTs have in our modern society, while highlighting its technological properties as immutable data storage.

Remember Me (2022) shown as the entire sequence