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"MODERNITY IS A DEAL: HUMANS AGREE TO GIVE UP MEANING IN EXCHANGE FOR POWER."


- YUVAL NOAH HARARI


Power vs Meaning is a conceptual blockchain artwork based on historian Yuval
Noah Harari’s idea that modern society is a deal in which humans agree to give
up meaning in exchange for power. The series consists of two looping animations
(Power and Meaning), each minted as an edition of 8 NFTs on the Ethereum
blockchain.


Playing on the idea of utility and collector rewards as prevalent themes in the
NFT space, holders of Power will be granted the power to reward themselves with
an additional edition of their NFT whenever they wish. Meaning, on the other
hand, is simply a piece of art, and holders will not be granted any sort of
utility or rewards. During the primary sale, collectors must choose between one
or the other and are not able to bid on both.


A social experiment that will only be able to fully tell its story as people
interact with it, Power vs Meaning asks viewers to confront their own motivation
for collecting NFTs in the first place. While Power offers utility, interaction,
collector rewards, a rarity system based on exponential growth, and the
potential for a community to organically form and evolve, Meaning offers nothing
but the chance to own a digital penguin that infinitely waddles towards some
sort of glowing metaphor for human motivation. As time goes on, how will the
collection change, and what will it say about us?


THE AUCTION

Power vs Meaning will be distributed through a 24-hour ranked auction beginning
on January 26th at 1pm EST and ending on January 27th at 1pm EST. There will be
no time extensions if new offers are placed in the final minutes of the auction.



Power and Meaning are each an edition of 8, and the top 8 offers on each NFT
will be given an edition. There is no minimum bid.



You may choose to place an offer in ETH on either Power or Meaning, but not
both. Placing an offer will lock your choice to your Ethereum wallet. Please be
aware that once you've made your choice, you will not be able to place any bids
on the other NFT during the duration of the auction. You may increase the amount
of your offer at any time. Once the auction concludes, all offers that have
fallen below the top 8 will be refunded.


POWER




MEANING




ABOUT THE ARTIST

Gavin Shapiro is a digital artist whose ultimate goal is to produce work that
makes you smile. He focuses primarily on playful conceptual artworks that
explore how we can use digital tools to confront our expectations of what’s
possible in a traditionally physical art world. He's lived in New York, Osaka
and Paris, working on a large variety of projects including tv shows,
commercials, outdoor displays, large-format stage visuals, and animations for
casino games.


His personal work, released under the name “shapiro500,” has been used as
visuals at music festivals and concerts all over the world, and has been shown
on digital billboards as part of art exhibitions in New York City, Paris, and
Tokyo. His animations have accumulated hundreds of millions of views across
Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Giphy, and have been sold as NFTs on Nifty
Gateway and SuperRare since mid-2020.





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