Join The Dwelling Workshop!
This Saturday at 3:00pm EST - Author Doug Karr (@dougkarr) and artist Ophelia Fu (@opheliafu) will be hosting a live-reading and art workshop within The Crypto Renaissance Exhibition in Brooklyn, NY.
Dwelling is a character-driven crime novel, inspired by true events, about a vicious landlord who violently works to eradicate his long-term tenants to flip their rent-stabilized Lower East Side apartments.
Visionary blockchain artist Ophelia Fu created 60 original ink on paper artworks for the serialized Steem blockchain premiere publication of Dwelling - a wonderful collaboration which grew organically out of the blockchain. Karr and Ophelia Fu met digitally through the STEEM blockchain, then in person in Lisbon at Steemfest. Soon after they began planning their collaboration on the novel Dwelling, with inspired results.
The modern-day tenement in Dwelling serves as a pressure cooker where culture, class and capitalism collide, forcing the interconnected tenants to fight for their futures, and increasingly their lives. The main characters’ stories interweave, bringing the neighborhood to life. The tenement’s inhabitants are a vibrant menagerie of misfits that serve as the novel’s chorus, pulling back the curtain on the insidious side of gentrification and a landlord who will stop at nothing to flip his treasured dwellings.
Ophelia Fu [ www.opheliafu.co.uk / @opheliafu ]
UK based mixed media artist and blockchain bohemian Ophelia Fu works globally with other artists and writers with projects and connections formed, or shared, on the blockchain. Presenting the majority of her work on blockchain based platforms such as Steemit, and drawing digitally on DADA.
Doug Karr [ dougkarr.com / @dougkarr ]
Brooklyn based film director and writer, Karr’s films have screened at over 50 international festivals including Sundance and won multiple awards, including 3 Cannes Lions for his commercial directing. Dwelling is Karr’s first novel.
Digital Tour on Rize!
Join us for a digital tour of The Crypto Renaissance exhibition on the Rize app! We had an incredible turnout for the show last Friday and we wanted to create an event specifically for those who could not come to New York that day. We’ll be hosting a full walkthrough with commentary on the Rize mobile app this Friday at 4pm EST. You can join the talk digitally - download the Rize app here - https://rizeapp.io - and search/follow the room ‘CreativeCrypto’. You’ll receive a notification for when the stream opens at 4:00PM EST on Friday.
Rize is a blockchain powered mobile live-streaming app, developed by the PROPS Project. We’ve been exploring the application for a few months now and it has allowed us to make some truly unique content. To learn more, check out their website - https://www.propsproject.com/
The Crypto Renaissance Details
This public exhibition is a showcase of the tools and resources built for creative professionals on the Steem blockchain and specifically how @sndbox members have integrated them into their practice and daily work. The exhibition will be open to all visitors for several weeks and serve as a free and public space for New Yorkers and others to learn about the Steem blockchain, the world of crypto, and immediately begin converging their creative work with the Steem ecosystem.
- Schedule: July 20 - August 15, 2018
- Location: 100 Bogart Street | Brooklyn, 1st Floor Gallery
- Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00PM - 6:00PM
