Twelve cities in twelve months. Not a bad mark for a debutant.
Miami, Paris, London, Denver, LA, Madrid, Venice, New York, Barcelona, Seattle, Zaragoza, Zurich.
See all of Botto’s stops in our exhibition page
And then back to London, for our anniversary celebration. Make sure to check out the details.
Botto first saw the light of day, or the neon light of the night, in Miami. The FTX Arena showed Interpret Complete in its jumbotron. Botto’s fifth minted artwork sold back when Ether was in the thirty-six hundreds and we were all expecting the bull to continue racing.
The Flagler street monolith set up by SuperRare hosted a party with Botto as a backdrop, during Art Basel in Miami.
Next stops were Paris and London, unofficial capitals of the old continent and artistic powerhouses in tune with the latest innovations in art. The Museum of Crypto Art showed a collection of digital art, while the Gazelli Art House in London held a virtual exhibition and talk where Mario Klingemann, artist and guardian of Botto’s AI, introduced Botto to his peers. All of this just three months into the Decentralized Autonomous Artist’s journey.
We don’t have images from Botto’s next stop, in Denver, where its artworks were exhibited in front of the effervescent minds of Ethereum developers in one of its trademark devcons. But we do have this candid.
Then came Botto’s first solo exhibition, thanks to Vellum LA and in the eye of the hurricane of Frieze Art Fair, a world renowned art event held in the same dates. Botto shone in street billboards across town, and welcomed visitors with a breathtaking exhibition in Vellum’s premises.
Next up, Botto was invited to take part in Certeza, an exhibition by Colección SOLO in Madrid, that explored, or I should say challenged, the things we hold as true in the world of art.
Also in Madrid, we took over the billboards of the Palace of the Press, in Madrid’s Broadway Street, the Gran Vía.
Without leaving the warm embrace of the Mediterranean, Botto moved to Venice where The Decentral Art Pavilion opened its doors to renowned NFTs artworks by over 100 international artists during the Biennale.
We recorded this video with a potato there. Behold Cozomo di Meidici’s collection piece, Scene Precede, in the millenary city of Venice.
Then it was time for the Big Apple. New York was the home of NFTs for a couple of weeks, and SuperRare did not miss the occasion to create a pop-up gallery. Botto was featured in its inaugural exhibition, Visions of Remembered Futures, with the apocalyptic Thwart Test representing Botto.
SuperRare’s gallery in SoHo also hosted a welcome party and an expert panel about Botto and the impact of AI art.
Sónar, the landmark electronic music festival in Barcelona is also a meeting point for innovators in other artforms, especially when they overlap with tech. Botto visited in June.
And from the East coast of Spain, to the West Coast of the USA. Botto flew to Seattle, to participate in Artist & the Machine, an exhibition about the wild interactivity between artists and their machines, generating powerful, emotional displays. This is the best image we have. Our apologies.
Etopia in Zaragoza, Spain, is a meeting point for art, tech, science and contemporary society: “a place where the boundaries between disciplines get blurred”. A natural stop for Botto. Etopia’s massive screens showcased Botto’s artworks in pairs, just as they manifest to Bottonians in the voting app.
And we’ve made it to October. Botto is currently part of DYOR, a very Swiss exhibition in Zurich that invites visitors to be intellectually independent and do their own investigation rather than believing all that is read. Too soon to have pictures yet, sry.
Which takes us to the present day. The weeks prior to Botto: A whole year of co-creation. The exhibition where Botto will blow a candle couldn’t take place anywhere else than in London, the city where the Decentralist Manifesto first saw the light of day.
Downstairs Brixton gallery will be the home of Botto, one year of co-creation, an exhibition that documents the first year of Botto, a pioneering AI artist whose proposals emerge via a process of co-creation with the thousands of users in its community.
Grab a ticket and come: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/botto-a-whole-year-of-co-creation-tickets-427783190037
