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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?


POWER



MEANING



BURNS

Editions of Power can be burned to redeem new artworks for free. Earlier
editions of Power can be burned for rarer artworks. Burns do not have a set end
date but are periodically closed from time to time to ensure that 8 Gavin
Shapiro artwork burns are open at one time.


ACTIVE BURNS:


TOO MUCH INFORMATION

8^2 Rarity


THE MORE THE MERRIER

8^3 Rarity


SHIPS IN THE NIGHT

8^3 Rarity


CUBES TO PATHS

8^4 Rarity


TRIANGLE DISINTEGRATION

8^3 Rarity


GIANT STEPS

8^4 Rarity



COMPLETED BURNS:


HEXAGON STAIRS

8^2 Rarity


RARITY SYSTEM

Since holders of Power can mint a new edition whenever they wish, a simple
rarity system was implemented to ensure that tiers of scarcity will always exist
within the collection, even if it expands to an infinite number of editions.
Every time Power reaches an edition number that is equal to a power of 8, a new
rarity tier is created.

For example:

 * Editions 1-8: 8^1 rarity
 * Editions 9-64: 8^2 rarity
 * Editions 65-512: 8^3 rarity
 * Editions 513-4096: 8^4 rarity

Currently, the highest edition of Power is , and new editions of Power will be
minted under the 8^4 rarity tier. editions remain before the 8^5 rarity tier
begins.


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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