Screenshot of ECHOES (featuring American Artist Lukas Avendaño, EYIBRA, NNUX, and Oswaldo Erreve Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and Rhett LaRue Lawerence Lek Jen Liu Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello and Sarah Rara) February 4–May 6, 2022, courtesy of EPOCH Los Angeles and the LACMA Art + Technology Lab. With the Algorand Foundation’s support, the Lab is now putting this discourse into practice, undertaking a pilot project that provides practical experience with NFTs and Algorand’s low-carbon pure proof-of-stake (PPoS) blockchain. At LACMA, numerous conversations about the application of NFTs and blockchain technology to museum work have also been underway, and we are featuring the output of these experiments and conversations in this blog series. ![]() Many artists, including Art + Technology Lab grant recipients, have started incorporating NFTs in their practice. In the past year, rapid advancements have occurred at a dizzying pace. It seems like it’s been ages since NFTs made their splash in the art world’s corner of the universe. Please note: these images are artistic creations inspired by the David Geffen Galleries currently under construction, and do not represent or reflect the actual construction site or renderings of the building project. A related initiative involving the certification of a small number of objects from LACMA’s permanent collection on Algorand’s blockchain will follow. ECHOES is part of a larger umbrella of efforts the Lab is pursuing to explore use cases for blockchain technology at the museum. ![]() Continuing its practice of fostering artist experimentation and innovation at LACMA, the Lab has teamed up with EPOCH, UNCOPIED, and a selection of artists in its program to create a virtual exhibition that will be minted as an edition of non-fungible tokens on the Algorand blockchain. For part six of NFTs and the Museum, the Art + Technology Lab introduces ECHOES.
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