NFTs
As part of the project CubaCreativa [2014 – ]
In the last eight years, I have developed an artistic and research project in different international contexts called CubaCreativa. This project pays special attention to the actions and social phenomena that constitute innovation practices. It is interested in documenting the processes or procedures with which creative solutions are reached, given that these in themselves can be infinitely repeated, readapted, and enhanced to the socio-cultural characteristics of each context and its economic circumstances. In that sense, more than the resulting physical object, it is the process and the singularity of social thought that is its focus of interest.
CubaCreativa has the potential to grow connected to the daily life of the context in which it is developed. As part of his research, Nestor Siré has formed a photographic and videographic archive in constant development, documenting creative practices worldwide. The artist has given this archive the name iA [Informal Archive].
Using the iA [Informal Archive] archives as a basis for study, the artist has found images of computer towers created in gamers’ communities that, instead of traditional metal or plastic structure boxes or chassis, use reused materials such as plastic knobs, cardboard paper, wet floor warning signs, and even automobile wheels. Gamers often look for ways to enhance their gaming experience, sometimes involving building their computers with unconventional materials due to precarious access to technologies. These DIY technical adaptations are alternative forms of production in survival cultures; in this case, implemented in the field of technologies within global gaming communities.
PC GAMER uses NFTs as a medium and platform to present digital sculptures that are, in turn, functional 3D prototypes of these handcrafted PC towers, which, ironically, could be produced at an industrial level. Each model was released on different marketplaces in the metaverse. This, considered its “genesis” collection, expands in different digital spaces and adapts to its different characteristics in terms of format and practical presentation processes. To see the collection in its entirety, one must scroll through the multiple digital platforms via Linktr, available on the artist’s social networks. PC GAMER uses the blockchain as a basis for archiving low-tech creative practices and, in turn, documenting the processes of creation, exhibition, and sale of NFTs globally on each platform, with its internal instabilities and access limitations imposed on Cuban artists.
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