The Metavisual

Communicating an art scholarship should never be a straightforward, standard procedure. Instead, we tackled the task like an art project of our own. We combined various techniques and ended up displaying broken piano fragments as a sculpture piece in the metaverse.

Culturama

2023

Campaign, Experimental Design, For good, Motion Graphics & 3D

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BACKGROUND

The Cultural Perspectives Foundation is an NGO devoted to helping the Bulgarian art & culture scene flourish. One of their many projects in the Culturama platform is Per aspera ad astra, a financial and mentorship program.

Looking for bold young artists experimenting and venturing into the unknown.

The scholarship is awarded for 5 separate forms of art: Visual arts, Music, Literature, Dance, and Theatre/Performance. 
Our task was to communicate the application process.

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APPROACH & IDEA

We approached the project the same way an artist would: like an art experiment, combining several different techniques.

We scanned the largest grande piano in the country and created a 3D-oil-painting-styled object out of it. We dissolved the model in Blender, using a random particle simulation. Those particles were displayed in a metaverse gallery on Spatial with their unique footprint on the blockchain. At a certain angle, they formed the campaign's main visual. Every form of art had its own unique set of particles and its own unique animated visual.

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EFFECT

2022's scholarship application process was amongst the most successful in Culturama's history. All five separate scholarships were awarded to aspiring artists

Recognition

Bronze – 2022 White Square Creative Festival, Digital Craft

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Being creative is a soul element. Being unusual is a boldness, a slight sliding of perspective that puts a temptation taste of high gear of emotion. We took a step together.

Ina Kancheva
The Cultural Perspectives Foundation

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