OPERATOR
PRIVACY
COLLECTION
an ongoing series exploring privacy and transparency in web3.
On the heels of winning the coveted 2021 Lumen Prize and ADC Gold Cube for their immersive artwork I’d rather be in a dark silence than, Operator takes their trademark conceptual technological approach to blockchain art with the Privacy Collection.
‘‘Ambitious multidimensional project that explores contemporary concerns around privacy”
says the Lumen Prize jury
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Christiane Paul, Adjunct Digital Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Ben Vickers, CTO, The Serpentine Gallery, UK
Melanie Lenz, Digital Curator, The V&A
Nathan Ladd, Assistant Curator, Tate Britain
Boris Magrini, Curator, Hek Basel, Switzerland
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Society has arrived at the crossroads of privacy and the insatiable human desire for digital self-expression. At the epicenter of this tension has been the immersive, experiential work of digital art pioneers, Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti, known together as ‘Operator.’
Over the past six years, the duo have built an innovative art practice around bringing together performance art, immersive environments, and creative technology to examine contemporary issues of data privacy, extractive technologies, surveillance capitalism, and beyond.
To date, they have created more than twenty critically-acclaimed works, but until now have intentionally avoided numerous opportunities to sell their art or components thereof. After years of close proximity to the crypto art community, they are excited to introduce this NFT collection.
Even before winning the Lumen Prize for Immersive Environments in 2021, Ania and Dejha have been referred to as “the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” (Clot Magazine) and a “LGBT power couple” (Flaunt). Their work has received awards from S+T+ARTS (Honorable Mention) and the ADC Awards (Gold Cube for Experiential design, Digital Design, and Fashion Innovation) and they have been featured speakers at Metaverse Fashion Week, Crypto and Digital Art Fair, Christie’s Art & Tech Summit, Bloomberg Art + Technology TV series, MUTEK, the first CADAF in New York, and MoCDA (Museum of Contemporary Digital Art).
LOT 03 : HUMAN UNREADABLE - PRIVACY COLLECTION
HUMAN UNREADABLE
Release date: May 24, 1pm EST
Human Unreadable immerses audiences and collectors in a three-act, embodied, generative art experience. The acts weave together code, choreography, blockchain, generative art, cryptography, and performance into an evolving conceptual experience - the slow recovery of the human. The work brings flesh and viscerality into code and vulnerability [as a feature] into long-form on-chain generative art. In order to realize the work, Operator created a novel on-chain generative choreography method.
Volume Sold (Primary): 350.24ETH
Collection Size: 400
SOLD OUT
LOT 02 : UNKNOWN SITTER - PRIVACY COLLECTION
UNKNOWN SITTER
SOLD 4888XTZ
Created through Operator’s Privacy Portraits, a durational performance installation in London where collectors had their portraits taken and anonymized, this portrait developed with no visible subject. As no names were attached to the photos, we have a sitter who is not only unidentifiable, but also invisible.
Release date: October 15, 2022
LOT 01 : PRIVACY PORTRAITS - PRIVACY COLLECTION
PRIVACY PORTRAITS
During Proof of People, Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti opened the Operator Atelier where they created a limited number of 67 Privacy Portraits as part of their ongoing Privacy Collection. The artists merge durational performance, installation, and chance operations to create an anonymized portrait of the collector.
Release date: July 6-8, 2022
SOLD OUT
LOT 00 : ATTEMPTS - PRIVACY COLLECTION
ATTEMPTS
Attempts, eleven unique works, is the first lot of the Privacy Collection. In this work, the body inhabits and hides inside a digital shell in the form of a translucent glass avatar, speaking to the pseudonymous nature of web3—pfps, usernames, wallet addresses—where one can ironically be known for being unknown.
Release date: May, 2022
Volume sold: 46ETH
SOLD OUT
PRIVACY KEY 00 - PRIVACY COLLECTION
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