Kalen Iwamoto - theVERSEverse https://theverseverse.com Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:43:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://theverseverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-Group-44-1-32x32.png Kalen Iwamoto - theVERSEverse https://theverseverse.com 32 32 1-0 https://theverseverse.com/poems/1-0?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1-0 Mon, 29 May 2023 21:33:09 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=6241 1-0 is a French-English palindromic pong poem that plays out the clash and collusion of resistance and dreams. A poem published as an Infinite Object video print.  15 x 21 cm Infinite Object (video with plexiglass frame) — Featured in POÈME SBJKT, an exhibition of works of literature both on and off the blockchain that […]

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1-0 is a French-English palindromic pong poem that plays out the clash and collusion of resistance and dreams. A poem published as an Infinite Object video print. 

15 x 21 cm
Infinite Object (video with plexiglass frame)

Featured in POÈME SBJKT, an exhibition of works of literature both on and off the blockchain that enhance, reinvent, and reimagine the relationship between text and image, analog and digital, blurring and challenging the lines that seek to divide.

POÈME SBJKT was curated by theVERSEverse in partnership with L’Avant Galerie Vossen and took place at Librairie Métamorphoses from May 25 – July 15, 2023.

Contact Librairie Métamorphoses for purchasing inquiries.

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W-A-R Zone https://theverseverse.com/poems/w-a-r-zone?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=w-a-r-zone Mon, 29 May 2023 21:29:20 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=6239 By Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano A painting-digital screen diptych, W-A-R Zone is a conceptual and visual poem inscribed on Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper. The form generated through the process of blacking out the text zone delineated by the letters W-A-R embodies the wartime suppression and mutilation of culture and innovation. The painting of this […]

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By Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano

A painting-digital screen diptych, W-A-R Zone is a conceptual and visual poem inscribed on Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper. The form generated through the process of blacking out the text zone delineated by the letters W-A-R embodies the wartime suppression and mutilation of culture and innovation. The painting of this form confronts us with the material presence of this zone of obliteration.

146 x 97 cm
Acrylic on canvas, Infinite Object (video with plexiglass frame)

Photo J.L. Losi

Featured in POÈME SBJKT, an exhibition of works of literature both on and off the blockchain that enhance, reinvent, and reimagine the relationship between text and image, analog and digital, blurring and challenging the lines that seek to divide.

POÈME SBJKT was curated by theVERSEverse in partnership with L’Avant Galerie Vossen and took place at Librairie Métamorphoses from May 25 – July 15, 2023.

Contact Librairie Métamorphoses for purchasing inquiries.

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Seed Words https://theverseverse.com/poems/seed-words?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seed-words Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:05:33 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=5893 A collaboration between conceptual writer Kalen Iwamoto, artist Julien Silvano, and Mother Nature, “Seed Words” is a conceptual poetry artwork that leaves to the vagaries of Nature the successful completion of a technological operation. The NFT’s poem was created from an Ethereum seed phrase, in the original order with three missing words, represented by the […]

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A collaboration between conceptual writer Kalen Iwamoto, artist Julien Silvano, and Mother Nature, “Seed Words” is a conceptual poetry artwork that leaves to the vagaries of Nature the successful completion of a technological operation. The NFT’s poem was created from an Ethereum seed phrase, in the original order with three missing words, represented by the ellipses. The artists have sown the missing words in the field depicted in the NFT as a Google map image with the location’s GPS coordinates. Will the seeds bloom into legible words? Will anyone ever complete the seed phrase and discover the gift planted in the wallet? 

The blooming of the flowers will be tracked over time, and photos of the field periodically posted on the artists’ website and Twitter account (@WenNew_Atelier). 

Kalen Iwamoto x Julien Silvano

Produce
….record melt,
Isolate.
….
….
Host seed,
truly consider
color. 

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Seeds and Ashes 12. https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-12?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-12 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:05:01 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4770 Seeds and Ashes 11 https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-11?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-11 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:04:45 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4834 Seeds and Ashes 10 https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-10?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-10 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:02:10 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4847 Seeds and Ashes 9 https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-9?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-9 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:01:08 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4846 Seeds and Ashes 8 https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-8?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-8 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:58:28 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4845 Seeds and Ashes 7 https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-7?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-7 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:57:15 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4844 Seeds and Ashes 6 https://theverseverse.com/poems/seeds-and-ashes-6?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeds-and-ashes-6 Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:53:40 +0000 https://theverseverse.com/?post_type=poems&p=4843