Beyond Limits: Unrealized Artworks of Chris Burden
Beyond Limits seeks to reshape the narrative around Chris Burden, shedding light on his architectural, sculptural, and engineering artistry. TRLab and the Chris Burden Estate aim to fulfill what Burden could not during his lifetime: the completion of his magnum opus, Xanadu, free from the limitations like time, space, funding, and building permission that he encountered throughout his career.
Memories of Tomorrow
Shanghai’s historic Capitol Theatre reopens with an ambitious immersive installation by digital artist Six N. Five. Co-organized by TRLab and Rockbund Art Museum, Memories of Tomorrow fills the iconic 1920s architecture of Shanghai’s first modernist cinema with an existential journey of breathtaking scale and depth.
SEED
A short history of Rhizome and generative art, as told to TRLab
VOGUE Meta-Ocean
Inspired by Vogue's Meta-Ocean, Vogue and TRLab offer a curated collection of NFT artworks showcasing six pioneering digital artists from around the world: Jessica Ticchio, Anushka Tendolkar, Khyati Trehan, Baoyang Chen, Cattin Tsai, and Momo Chen. Each artist found inspiration for their contributed works in Meta-Ocean's intersecting themes of fine art, fashion, and web3 technology. This partnership marks the first global Vogue-curated NFT collection.
The Calder Question
What is art? Who defines it, and who among us has the potential to revolutionize it? Join the Calder Foundation and TRLab to explore these questions and more while you unlock exclusive access to discover who legendary sculptor Alexander Calder really was. The most dedicated among you will find themselves rewarded with more than knowledge.
Your Daytime Fireworks
For decades, contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been internationally acclaimed for his creative use of gunpowder. As Cai's third NFT, Your Daytime Fireworks invites NFT players to embark on a magical journey to explore and participate in Cai's world of daytime fireworks. Deeply interactive, the project invites collectors to set off their own virtual daytime fireworks, encouraging players to follow in the footsteps of the artist as they feel the uncertainty as well as the unexpected joy Cai experienced when he set off fireworks in different regions and under different weather conditions across the globe.
David Ariew x Tatler China: The Philanthropic Journey of an NFT Artwork
This collaboration marks a milestone: when a still image from David Ariew’s digital artwork Fractal Monarch appears on the cover of Tatler China, it will be the first NFT to do so on a Chinese magazine. TRLab is honored to launch the digital component of this project.
AI 2041
Inspired by stories from Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee's book AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future, this project is one of the first cross-medium collaborations between authors and artists. It represents two promising emerging technologies: AI and blockchain.
Transient Eternity—101 Ignitions of Gunpowder Paintings
TRLab is pleased to introduce the first NFT work by internationally-acclaimed artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The project explores questions surrounding the transience and eternity of the digital age, with his NFTs as the existence of the explosion moment itself—not the videos or photographs with which the instant of ignition was preserved in the traditional sense, or the physical gunpowder painting that was born from the ignition.