COLLECTIVE WORKS
Glitchbox is an open-source visual creation system that reframes the limitations of generative AI as a set of creative opportunities. Rather than pursuing flawless technological performance, the system embraces glitches, errors, and unexpected outputs as integral elements of live artistic expression. This approach to "protocolism" recognizes that the most compelling human-AI collaborations emerge from negotiating imperfection and unpredictability
A conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marina Abramović, and her disembodied AI voice. By stripping away visual representation, the work distills digital identity to its most essential element—voice—challenging audiences to recognize consciousness and personality through sound alone. This deliberate immateriality reflects Abramović's career-long investigation of presence beyond the physical body. The installation creates a triangular dialogue where human curator, human artist, and digital voice negotiate authenticity without the distraction of visual simulation. The absence of deepfake imagery forces listeners to confront how much of identity exists in vocal inflection, speech patterns, and conversational rhythm, making the recognition of the "real" Marina more intellectually challenging and conceptually pure.
COLLABORATIVE WORKS
Artist Primavera De Filippi has benefited from the collaboration of engineers such as Isaac Patka, Ben Moskowitz, Martin Vert, 0xGiulio and many more to evolve the Plantoid project into a larger scale installation with AI-embeddings and upgraded NFT functionalities.
The artist duo Operator has created an extremely successful Artblocks-curated collection of fully on-chain NFT choreographic works, which was awarded the Lumen Prize for the Metaversal Generative Art category. This collection was born and incubated at GLITCH and was made possible thanks to the contributions of many GLITCH engineers and collaborators, including Isaac Patka, and Leo Blondel.
A collaboration between the artist duo CrossLucid and many GLITCHers, including Elisabeth Sweet and Apolinario Passes, to create a new NFT collection of AI-generated works, with integrated poetry components.
An ambition artistic collaboration between Primavera De Filippi, Will Papper, Adrien Guerrera, and Jake Hartnell to create a fully on-chain NFT collection of blockchain-based lifeforms that feed off cryptocurrency and evolve over time as new SVG genes are injected into the Aminal’s DNA code
GLITCH RESIDENCIES
Every year, GLITCH brings together a highly curated group of creative and smart individuals contributing towards or researching the use of blockchain and artificial intelligence in the artistic domain to produce new artworks, technical standards, philosophical concepts, research or products that tackle key societal issues.
Gathering NFT artists working with blockchain technology and exploring all of their potentialities
Exploring the boundaries between digital and physical worlds, bridging virtual realities with blockchain
Connecting artificial intelligence with other form of intelligences, both human and more-than-human
Experimenting with the art of mancy to create new lifeforms that live both in the organic and synthetic world
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
One of our flagship collective exhibitions, "Ecotone," was hosted on the Feral File platform. This exhibition promoted the fusion of art and blockchain technology, encouraging deep collaboration between artists and blockchain engineers. "Ecotone" served as a powerful example of how artistic expression and technological innovation can be harmonized to explore new possibilities within the creative domain.
A group of GLITCHers spent 3 weeks working collaboratively on art pieces to be exhibited at the Synesthesia Festival in Portugal. This intense creative residency further strengthened GLITCH's ethos of collaborative creation, blending different artistic mediums with blockchain and AI technologies.
GLITCH had a significant presence at the Fey Arts Festival, where 10 GLITCHers showcased their works that sit at the intersection of art and technology. Exhibiting in a fully natural setting, these artists demonstrated how blockchain and AI can integrate into immersive, natural environments while highlighting the power of creativity and decentralized technology in reshaping the artistic domain.
In collaboration with Alias.studio, we have organised a collective exhibition with 15 artists who trained their own AI model, and we exhibited these models, along with the possibility for visitors to prompt these models, and mint NFT of the generated images they liked the most.
TECHNICAL WORKS
GLITCH is not only focused on artistic creation but also on developing open-source technical protocols that serve the public good. These tools provide artists with the freedom to engage in more creative expression by offering innovative frameworks that realize their visions. Anchored in collaboration, openness, and Creative Commons principles, these protocols provide artists with tools to expand their creative possibilities.
Designed to foster a culture of remixing within the NFT space, REMIX NFT encourages artists to reinterpret and build upon existing works, pushing the boundaries of collaborative creativity.
The Remix NFT protocol and the Token-bound Licenses combined, have given rise to the emergence of a new NFT platform, allowing for AI-generated images to an be licensed through the delivery of NFT with encoded rights.
This protocol refers to embedding legal licenses directly into NFTs, ensuring that Creative Commons-like licenses are intrinsically tied to the tokens. This empowers artists to clearly communicate how their works can be used, remixed, or distributed, making copyright licensing more transparent.
The GLITCH protocol enables artworks to interact asynchronously through smart contracts. When a new work is created using the GLITCH protocol or when someone interacts with a work deployed on the protocol, data about the interaction is recorded on the blockchain, allowing other artworks to react to it in real-time.