Digital environment is relentlessly distracting and addictive." "My art is an exploration of Digital Zen. "I want this space to showcase my passion for meditative design, a new definition of avant garde luxury for the digital age," said Krista Kim. Colorfully-hued gradients made by the artist cover the floor and ceiling. However, she wanted to expand on this tradition by using the digital age.ĭesigned to reveal a healing atmosphere, the house was conceived as an open plan and all floors and ceilings, including furnitures were envisioned in glass.Īll physical furniture pieces in Mars House will be made of tempered printed glass in Italy, may be commissioned by the collector as NFT physical pieces and fabrics will be made of renewable materials. Kim designed Mars House as a "light sculpture" inspired by Kyoto’s architecture, which was built for zen consciousness of the community. As she explains, Kim wanted to use screens as digital instruments of well-being. In the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns, Kim wanted to investigate the potentials of digital life as an interest has significantly increased in using digital tools or screens. The items bought through NFT can be in different forms like jpegs, gifs, and even Tweets. NFT is a kind of virtual certificate of ownership and allows creators' digital artworks to be collected, sold and resold.
NFT, similar to blockchain technology, represents a unique digital item and not interchangeable. Kim's Mars House was sold on the NFT marketplace SuperRare for 288 Ether ($512,000), a cryptocurrency very similar to Bitcoin. The project, named Mars House, was designed in May 2020 and the house was entirely created as a 3D digital file rendered in Unreal Engine which is software commonly used to create video games.Īs Kim notes, Mars House can also be experienced in virtual reality but the house could also be experienced through augmented reality (AR) environment in apps, such as SuperWorld in future.
Toronto-based artist Krista Kim's Mars House has become the first digital home sold on non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace in the world.
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