GameCats

Game Cats earn passive income by staking and earning fractionalized cool cats.

Game Cat #995

Our signature commission awarded to world renowned photographers to help them create new work for the Obscura platform. 2 photographers per month are selected for their outstanding contributions to the medium of photography. We offer the artist a curation team to assist in the selection of the final pieces. Each artist will produce a collection of 55 NFTs.

55 Season Passes will be sold for the Curated Commission. Each pass guarantees 8 NFTs, one from every curated artist. Sold once per season.

purchase your season pass on the secondary market: https://opensea.io/collection/obscura-mint-pass or stay tuned for the season 2 primary sale at: http://obscura.io in May 2022

Obscura Curated

Ursula 3 #12 by Hannah Whitaker

This collection of photographs expands on a character who has been the focal point of my work for a few years: Ursula. I leave ambiguous exactly who and what she is. Her nature is something between an AI, a fictional character, an avatar, a product of the collective imagination, and a living, fully dimensional, being. 

I have previously made two bodies of work with her. The first I published with Image Text Ithaca Press in a book called Ursula. These photographs also comprise my genesis NFT drop. The second I showed recently at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris in an exhibition called Shadow Detail. This third body of work is the first made specifically for the NFT space. Im calling it Ursula 3, as the third iteration of the project, and in a nod to Web3.

These photographs incorporate some of the photographic techniques that I have used in the past in cultivating the mystique of Ursulasilhouettes, special effect lighting, and printed backgrounds. For Ursula 3 I combined these techniques with a more hands-on approach to set building. I had several props and set materials fabricated out of mirrored plexi, including patterned screens, Ursulas profile, and her hands. I also had made a turtleneck, gloves, and hoods in reflective materials. In addition to using these props, I incorporated rear projection, a technique used in a pre-digital era of Hollywood filmmaking. 

The sets are more complex than I had done previously, with the intent of making the space in the photographs stranger, more layered, and more difficult to decipher. The resulting photographs evoke the established language of the Ursula lineage but usher her into an increasingly synthetic universe.

Edition: 1 of 1

Commissioned by Obscura

Ursula 3 #12 by Hannah Whitaker

Whirlpool #52 Gayne by Jim Goldberg

This project, Whirlpool, began in 2019 from a commission by the High Museum of Art as part of their Picturing the South collection. The Obscura Curated commission has allowed me to continue this project and go deeper.

I worked in a small, racially mixed, and working-class town by the name of Augusta, AR. Located along the White River in Arkansass Delta region, its heyday had long passed with the gradual decline of steamships and use of the river. I was fascinated by the small-town life and its history, the landscape, the hunting culture, the complicated familial ties, and the delicate dynamics of race and economic status that lived there. It was complex and stood out to me as a true reflection of contemporary American consciousness at this moment.

The work received its name from the White River, which at one time was the lifeblood of Augusta. In the river, many literal and metaphoric whirlpools are created by opposing currents, and tensions within the community and in the country at large.


Edition: 1 of 1

Commissioned by Obscura

Whirlpool #52 Gayne by Jim Goldberg

Ever Fragments are a key component of the land generation process in Civitas. They combine to form Ever Crystals, which are used to create unique and highly productive land tiles rendered procedurally through an algorithmic art generation pipeline.

Ever Fragments of Civitas

Ever Fragment

POTE(n)ZA

POTE(n)ZA is a limited edition series of generative NFTs by artist Gavin Potenza and coded by Archethect. Each artwork is uniquely composed by an advanced algorithm, building complex sequences of blocks and patterns.

POTE(n)ZA #885

POTE(n)ZA #8770

The Cubes Of Infinity

### The Cubes of Infinity
> 250 unique infinity structures, created via the visual programming langugage within the Ethereum Blockchain, trapped and embedded into there as humanified finite ideas, individualized as impossibly as possible.