Matto - Shinkai (🙏✊)

The Remanence reward MITG works have been minted and sent. Some favorites:

The mint for "remanence" is live for the next 24 hours! Each mint represents a "memory," 3 fragments of a master work represented through an elementary neural network. Everything from social media compression to the lossy process of archiving real-world paintings points to one fact that can be hard to come to terms with: the images of the artworks you see on the internet are not the actual artworks. They are simply corrupted representations of what the artist originally created. Even the paintings themselves get lost through the patina of age. What does persist is our memory, largely consisting of what the artworks meant to us. While the lossiness of historical art is important to note, it brings us to something much more human: the persistence of emotion. Tomorrow, we as a community start the process of reconstructing what was lost. Sure, you can combine pieces and collect all fragments to restore the original image, but you can also mix and match. Use these artworks to create something entirely new. 20 prizes are available for those who do: 16 MITG reserve mints for the first full reconstructions, and 4 for the prints shown last month at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair. So today, go collect memories, and tomorrow hopefully we can put back together what these artworks really mean to us. While I am (obviously) biased here, the more you collect the more you will be able to create tomorrow! remanence.diid.art