Mat3ria is Matèria gallery's on-chain art department built to explore the possibilities provided by the dialogue between contemporary art, culture and blockchain technology.
Alternative to a traditional gallery operational method, Mat3ria is centred around a dialogue between technology and cultural production; where its community of artists, developers, graphic designers and collectors are bound together by an on-chain architecture built to provide a circular alternative to the fundraising, development, experience and support of contemporary art.
Mat3ria's interest lies in the construction of a vibrant programme of releases curated to accelerate the evolution of a new medium and the growing possibilities found at the intersection between Web3 and artistic practice. By leveraging dedicated exhibitions in its physical space in Rome and by employing tailored smart-contract technology, the department’s mission is to take part in the layout of an operational blueprint for a future where physical and digital are interconnected and made one by proof of ownership allowed by blockchain technology.
Mat3ria aims to do so by championing a selection of pioneering artists, native to the digital space, alongside those who have already crafted a strong career in the traditional art world. Through curated partnerships with leading on-chain art platforms, we look forward to creating a space for artists to reimagine cultural production and ownership models through the experimentation with the evolving technology at their disposal.
Additional areas currently in development include: on-chain archives, web 3 certification, independent editorial production, new media development and education, philanthropy.
Artists & Projects
First drop
Priscilla Pallante
Augmented Rome
Augmented Rome is a collection of NFT artworks offering an intricate, complex portrait of the Eternal City captured through sonic resonances. A native of Rome herself, Pallante deploys novel photographic techniques to reimagine its landscape anew by materialising sound waves recorded at famed urban landmarks like the Fori Imperiali, the ancient road that runs between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum. For this project, Pallante collected feedback of voices and noises while walking through the city, from the Castel Sant’Angelo to the basilica of San Pietro, visualising their frequencies to generate a ‘parallel vision and version of Rome. Technologies such as 3D mapping and cymatic geometries enable Pallante to, in her words, ‘give shape to the sonic weight that I perceived in my city but that I could not see’. Building on her scientifific and artistic inquiry into acoustic physics, Pallante’s cymatic images reflflect the flfluid dualities of Rome’s identity, probing the public and the private, the abstract and the real, objectivity and illusion. Moving between aural and pictorial registers, in Augmented Rome the city is ‘simplifified in form and amplifified in perception’, so that the ‘invisible becomes matter and then representation’. Through Pallante’s unique renderings, viewers are invited to immerse themselves in Rome’s audiovisual architecture, to encounter, as in one example, ‘the beauty of a recorded voice that is transmitted inside the Pantheon and bounces off the circular walls, wrapping around you’.
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