A CONVERSATION
WITH THE UNSEEN WORLD
A REVOLUTIONARY ORACLE WITH ANCIENT ROOTS
MEANINGFUL FORTUNES
INTERPRETED BY A.I.
Sky Ladder, 2015, realized off Huiyu Island, Quanzhou, June 15, 4:45am
A DIALOGUE WITH THE UNSEEN WORLD
For a long time the core of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang's work has been to express the unseen world through visible means, to encourage a dialogue with it and to leverage it as a source of guidance in times of uncertainty. Emblematic of Cai's dialogue with the unseen world is Sky Ladder, one of his most well-known explosion projects and the subject of a 2016 Netflix documentary by the same name.
Cai’s artworks have been showcased by institutions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo del Prado, and many more. EET is Cai’s latest experimentation with blockchain as a creative tool. By introducing an on-chain oracle, Cai attempts to bridge the physical and the virtual while pondering the question: How can art heal the world?
THE FIRST-EVER GIFS GENERATED ON-CHAIN
About
Cai Guo-Qiang
Photo by Kenryou Gu, courtesy Cai Studio
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian in 1957. In the early 1980s, he was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. From the end of 1986 to 1995, he resided in Japan; he has lived and worked in New York City since. Grounded in the conceptual foundations of eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues, his artworks span multiple artistic mediums including painting, installation, video, and performance art.
His often site-specific artworks adapt to local conditions, interpreting and responding to the local culture and history as well as establishing a dialogue between viewers and the larger universe around them. His famed explosion art and installations are imbued with a force that transcends the two-dimensional plane to oscillate freely between society and nature.
Kanon is a pseudonymous collective of art, design, and cryptonative technology professionals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of crypto-enabled artistic expression. Constantly innovating at all stages of the digital creative process, from visual to open-source protocol design, Kanon is supporting a novel model in which creative expression, structural experimentation, and financial return are mutually reinforcing.
In March 2021, Kanon launched the K21 Collection as its inaugural product. K21 is a closed-end art vault of 21 unique NFT artworks by a diverse roster of influential and pioneering contemporary, digital, and cryptonative artists.
The EET oracle experience starts when you submit your question via a texting interface. Then, you'll be asked to tap on a set of rotating circles six times to allow randomness—a quality necessary to access the unseen world—to be tied to your fortune. After EET receives your question and randomness input, it generates the EET fortune on-chain and sends it to your wallet. The EET fortune is composed of an animated on-chain-generated GIF, along with a title and six verses. Once the EET fortune is in your wallet, the EET AI will be at hand to help you interpret your fortune.
All components of the EET smart contract system are 100% on-chain and 100% decentralized. No off-chain dependencies. No admin privileges.
