An oversized pair of feet, psychedelic tape art, a rail bed somewhere and graffiti everywhere: The Haus was an urban art exhibition of a special kind. Also because it was torn down after two months despite the rush of visitors. Now The Haus is celebrating its comeback - in virtual reality. Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection.
What can we know, what is truth and what is reality? Virtual realities shift our perception, transplant our sensory apparatus into simulated worlds and convey a feeling of transcendent states of consciousness. How it feels to be here and yet somewhere else at the same time is shown by the crypto-art project TheHaus on Chain - with the help of NFTs.
This is our house
165 artists, 10,000 square metres of exhibition space and over 70,000 visitors: The Haus was full of superlatives. The setting for what is probably one of the world's most spectacular urban art exhibitions was a former bank building on Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, which has since been demolished and became an art playground for two months before the wrecking balls rolled in. Each of the more than 100 rooms was individually modelled, demolished, arranged and transformed into a clash-of-styles trip. As quickly as the room installations blossomed, they also disappeared again. The building is no longer standing, the exhibition ended in June 2017. On the blockchain, however, The Haus is completing its NFT metamorphosis.
The Haus initiators DIE DIXONS, a Berlin street art crew, have joined forces with NFT start-up BLNFT and AR/VR specialist Realities to reanimate the exhibition as a non-fungible token collection. Room by room, floor by floor, the exhibition is now reassembled and becomes virtually walkable as TheHaus on Chain. As Augmented Reality NFT, the rooms can either be dragged onto the screen or entered directly as Virtual Reality NFT with VR glasses. The first NFTs are already available in AR form as an open edition for 50 euros, and as a VR version in limited quantities for 250 euros each at Opensea and the exhibition running until the end of January GO! NFT in Berlin Schöneberg.
NFT parallel universe
"In the end, The Haus on Chain is a small metaverse in itself," says BLNFT co-founder Torben Jacobi, explaining the concept. In it, NFTs expand the scope for action and allow the miniature metaverse to become a place for immersive borderline experiences.
The gateway for the multi-layered NFTs is the Website of The HausIf you have an NFT, you can log in, get a code and with that code you can feed either your VR goggles, smartphone or tablet," Sven explains.
Source: btc-echo
Deutsch 
Français 
English (UK) 
Italiano 