Oceans of Wisdom

we need better discovery of people

as a starting point

we need much better onboarding material on the site

@[gpebbles] yes I went to mint too and was like wtf - fixing now

sorry @[boredsurgeon] - no love for science!

we will fix asap

there is accidentally an AL on the public phase

we are currently rugging science

LFG!

ok gn from me too

dropping this here

This inaugural photography accession program builds a focused subcollection about the mechanics of freedom. Not freedom as slogan, but freedom as structure: who gets access, who is excluded, what is permissioned, what is open, what is surveilled, what can be carried across a border, what can be said without reprisal, and what it means to leave. The program draws a straight line between the physical and the digital. Doors, turnstiles, checkpoints, queues, fences, paywalls, cameras, badges, backrooms, server rooms, screens, and the ordinary frictions that decide who can participate. The subject is sovereignty as lived experience: custody, autonomy, and the right to exit. Curatorial frame “Decentralization” is often discussed as infrastructure. This program treats it as a human condition. We are looking for photographs that make control visible and that show the costs of control, the workarounds people build, and the spaces where agency survives. The strongest works will stand on their own as photographs and also hold together as a coherent set that can be read as an argument. What the collection intends to acquire A tight group of works that establishes the collection’s standards from day one. Scope includes, but is not limited to: Thresholds and gates: entrances, exits, locks, keys, barriers, checkpoints, borderlands Civic and state systems: border control, visas and residency, permits and licensing, courts and waiting rooms, police lines and barricades, administrative queues, public benefits offices, state archives, civic surveillance in public space Permissioning and membership: badges, IDs, wristbands, ticketing, queues, access rosters, invitation-only spaces, corporate lobbies, compliance checkpoints Markets and capital gatekeeping: trading floors and exchanges, clearing and settlement infrastructure, bank branches and compliance desks, underwriting and credit scoring, “accredited” access, terminals and back offices, paywalls and walled gardens in finance Surveillance and compliance: cameras, lighting, patrols, signage, monitoring rooms, security theater, audit trails and inspections rendered as space and behavior Informal autonomy: side doors, parallel routes, mutual aid, shadow logistics, repair culture, off-grid edges, self-organized systems that bypass official chokepoints The right to exit: departure, refusal, evasion, shelter, chosen invisibility, the quiet act of leaving Self-custody and self-sovereignty as lived practice: personal control of movement, identity, information, and value in environments designed to intermediate them What does not fit this round: Tourism aesthetics without a control or access story Studio portraiture without a clear relationship to the premise

but here this theme is straight curation stuff

maybe it is doing some work for the network

because maybe it is an inside joke here

what i mean it is ok if a meme card would not make a museum curation

but here, we go museum art grade

there is a lot of stuff that we can pass via the memes

the memes are one thing

and we will have to put on our big boy and big girl pants on for this one and not just select on vibes

yeah it is tight and it is thematic

it is a museum grade brief

because that is not an NFT-twitter grade brief

it would be very powerful

if we can pull it off

and start thinking

well give it a read

and if people work, it could be powerful

I can imagine what the photographs could look like

it is a big and tough but RELEVANT conceptual theme

people might have to think/shoot

and I do not think there are 20 pieces on this theme sitting out there

we need to aim for real quality

but let's go for it

i think it is probably on the edge of what the nft photography community can deliver

that is not museum like curation

it can't be "the theme is photography"

it needs to be

but to do a proper curation

it is narrow

think about if we can execute this theme in time

photographers

spread the good word

anyway i really need to sleep

too

it will work for people's own collections

and once we build a better interface

OS just wants to be a marketplace

@[boredsurgeon] obviously we will buld a better interface here

that i meant 185K sqm of prime arctic land