For the first time, Monnaie de Paris is hosting a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT) in its museum. Through a collaboration with the Collection, the work of artist Robert Alice is given pride of place.
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Monnaie de Paris hosts a collection of NFTs
Since June 30 and until October 22, Monnaie de Paris welcomes for the first time a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT). It is quite a symbol for the institution founded in 864 by Charles II the Bald, which is notably responsible today for minting French coins as well as commemorative coins and medals.
This exhibition is carried out in collaboration with theCollection, an NFT platform working with world famous institutions such as the British Museum. Here, it is the work of the artist Robert Alice that is highlightedthrough in a collection called BABEL, in homage to the short story “The Library of Babel” by the writer Jorge Luis Borges.
This choice of name is not insignificant, because the library referred to in the book has characteristics reminiscent, in a way, of a blockchain :
“A space made up of hexagonal pieces, all identical and interconnected, presenting the same number of shelves on which are arranged the same number of books, endowed with the same number of pages, lines and characters, constituting all the possible variations, written and to come[…]»
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Creations obtained by an assembly of technologies
Thus, visitors can discover 15 works printed on physical mediaaccompanied by QR code redirecting to their digital double in NFT format on the Collection website.
These creations combine several elements to arrive at a result, whether 3D models obtained by LiDAR technologies, ASCII characters or even architectural plans of the Monnaie de Paris:
4/ Blueprints fuse a number of processes, from ASCII and GANs, with the original architectural blueprints of the @MonnaiedeParis, as a way of exploring the architectures of the centralized and decentralized. pic.twitter.com/JKAqrPCaOV
— robertalice (@robertalice_21) June 14, 2023
If this exhibition is unprecedented for this thousand-year-old institution that is the Monnaie de Paris, this is not the first time that non-fungible tokens have become part of French cultural heritage. And for good reason, we learned last February that the Center Pompidou museum had acquired 18 NFTs, anchoring them a little more in traditional art.
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