The Beginning
Hi everyone,
This is my first attempt to get my skin into the game and start a project on HIVE. I am full time engaged in our company, my goals and perspectives evolve around #web3, blockchain and what great things can be done within a #decentralized value system. Most of you’ve been probably much longer in this field than I and have more expertise in blockchain ecosystems, especially #Hive. So here I am with my project and I feel like a very beginner. And I am asking for your support and contribution.
However this proposal turns out, I LOVE beginnings.
A DAO for a Museum - an experiment.
For the past year I have been forming a #DAO for the Museum of Applied #Arts (MAK) in Vienna. I loved the idea from scratch, the museum is very progressive, delving into digital arts and design and has a huge collection of design pieces which it displays in its digital collection “MAK Sammlung Online”. Also - taking information from their website - they seemed to be well-connected to their audience. So why not try and create a DAO which supports the #Museum - why not apply an organizational form as an extended digital entity, creating a #community that would support the mediation of art and creation of exhibitions.
We imagined various opportunities for artists and art lovers, for curators and visitors, a community where artists could meet their audience and potential collectors and supporters. #Artists declared they would love to produce commissioned digital #artwork, the digital collection could be tokenized by involving digital creators.
The greatest challenge was the centralized thought of the idea: This was not a DAO if the museum was to #finance all the future projects, have a say in future projects and would define rules of the DAO without asking its members. What we imagined as an opportunity was more a fantasy. A DAO has to be free of an “owning entitiy” - it is owned by its members.
So here I am still looking for the opportunity. I still believe in the idea of a digital decentralized entity that supports an established institution. And I still believe that in this #collaboration there are many opportunities which can be discussed.
The MAK DAO is not there to produce for the Museum of Applied Arts or artists should not primarily join in hope of recognition for their artwork by the Museum of Applied Arts. I believe MAK DAO is a community coming together to discuss the digital future of museums and the relevance of an emerging pop culture in a museum context.
☝️For me the MAK DAO is a community of artists, art lovers, visitors, collectors and curators who would love to see museums and art institutions to level up into web3.
An Avatar is a piece of Applied Art
Well, maybe not the above as in terms that will be recognized as such by future generations, it was never in the high charts. Nevertheless, it was an #NFT created on Tezos #Blockchain which I bought and made into my avatar - matching my alias Elmira Bear. And in this function it will have a history and a purpose of its own.
See, web3 is full of Applied Art, some here to stay and be recognized by some future generations and some to go down the road to oblivion. There are various areas where #art is created for a purpose, the PFPs being only one of them. There is skins for online gaming, digital fashion, digital artefacts (yes, consumerism is quite keen on those), there is entire worlds for AR and VR, online galleries and much more. And all this matches in a way what we consider design in real life: architecture, exhibition design, fashion design, you name it.
So why not found a DAO for Applied Arts (and call it MAK DAO), and start discussing, collecting and commenting on Applied Art in Web3 while roaming the web?
🖖Come, join and let’s head off together in the MAK DAO Discord Channel
That is a great project plan @elmirabear .For sure many artist and collectors will join and support this program. You can count me on this☺
Wow, thank you @john0928! Just follow me or the MAK DAO community on Hive - or join us in the discord channel (see link above!) Happy to have you onboard, I hope many more will join!
Sure, can you comment down the link of the community because I can't see it in my end.thanks☺
https://discord.com/invite/7va9DtHz6T
Here you go :)
I already joined bro🤗 looking forward to your future projects in this program
Welcome! Now I have to speed up with a decent white paper proposal. 😃
Ohh yahh😀, goodluck bro
Hi, that's an excellent initiative, I hope everything goes your way, by the way you got a very nice bear. 😊
Hi - apologies for my late answer - thank you for your kind response!😃 I hope to see a lot from you - I really like your avatar and your work! Very much aligned with the MAKDAO initiative 🤗
Don't worry, it's fine, thank you very much, I'm very happy that you liked my style and my profile picture, sorry for being uninformed, but what is the MAKDAO initiative?
We are very much at the start, MAKDAO is designed as a DAO supporting the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna by collecting, discussing and also producing applied art in web3. I am just writing the white paper and hope it'll be ready by next week. If you would like to follow the news, pls join the community MAKDAO here on PeakD.
I think we should look at art in web3 from the angle what it is produced for - is it just l'art pour l'art or is it for a purpose, such as for games, PFPs, Avatars, or digital landscapes, fashion,...
So that's the idea in a nutshell.
Oh, great, I think it's very good, much success in this new initiative. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I will gladly join. Regards.
Thank you for taking the time to ask :D
I really like what you do - also with crocheting - the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna had a fun initiative "crochet your NFT" during Vienna Design Week I believe. I would have to ask...
Cool initiative. I wish you the best and much success.
Thank you!😃
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