A short history of Rhizome and generative art, as told to TRLab

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.