Wisdoms for Love 3.0

Keiken w/ Obso1337, Ryan Vautier and Sakeema Crook (GB)

Wisdoms for Love 3.0 is an online decision-making game + NFT project inside an installation with an interactive sculpture. The game explores the bubbled-up feelings, collective consciousness + fervent beliefs of the contemporary moment, where the desire for change and a more equal, decentralized future is collectively being challenged. The game is rooted in decision-making where you must decide your fate; do you take the path of the Divine Mother, become a Human God, or stay on your Moral High Horse? 

Players must work their way through a labyrinth of metaphorical decisions. The decision-making points are punctuated by cut-scenes filled with symbolic imagery and sounds, an instant reveal of the path the player finds themselves on. As the player progresses through the game they collect “wisdom tokens,” digital artworks of the objects inside the game. Wisdoms for Love 3.0 features multiplayer and live chat functions (online version only) as well as a map that shows the different potential pathways and tracks the players location. Simultaneously the physical sculpture of the map dynamically tracks the player's journey.  

“Wisdom Tokens” are free artworks that can be downloaded at the end of a player’s gameplay session. Players will receive a zip file with their assigned username that contains their collected “wisdom tokens,” an animatic and still poster of all available wisdom tokens and a moral contract. The moral contract binds the user in a moral exchange with the artists rather than a financial one.  

Wisdoms for Love 3.0 explores and maps out different feelings + beliefs in the contemporary consciousness. It considers “wisdom” as a tool for growth and change and proposes it as a form of currency to transact with that could be applied to the blockchain and integrated into future Web 3.0 technologies, creating alternative definitions of wealth for the “life” game. It also explores new ways to gamify art amongst the rise of blockchain technology.

Wisdoms for Love 3.0 is an online decision-making game + NFT project inside an installation with an interactive sculpture. The game explores the bubbled-up feelings, collective consciousness + fervent beliefs of the contemporary moment, where the desire for change and a more equal, decentralized future is collectively being challenged. The game is rooted in decision-making where you must decide your fate; do you take the path of the Divine Mother, become a Human God, or stay on your Moral High Horse? 

Players must work their way through a labyrinth of metaphorical decisions. The decision-making points are punctuated by cut-scenes filled with symbolic imagery and sounds, an instant reveal of the path the player finds themselves on. As the player progresses through the game they collect “wisdom tokens,” digital artworks of the objects inside the game. Wisdoms for Love 3.0 features multiplayer and live chat functions (online version only) as well as a map that shows the different potential pathways and tracks the players location. Simultaneously the physical sculpture of the map dynamically tracks the player's journey.  

“Wisdom Tokens” are free artworks that can be downloaded at the end of a player’s gameplay session. Players will receive a zip file with their assigned username that contains their collected “wisdom tokens,” an animatic and still poster of all available wisdom tokens and a moral contract. The moral contract binds the user in a moral exchange with the artists rather than a financial one.  

Wisdoms for Love 3.0 explores and maps out different feelings + beliefs in the contemporary consciousness. It considers “wisdom” as a tool for growth and change and proposes it as a form of currency to transact with that could be applied to the blockchain and integrated into future Web 3.0 technologies, creating alternative definitions of wealth for the “life” game. It also explores new ways to gamify art amongst the rise of blockchain technology.

vimeo.com/665183137
www.wisdomsfor.love/
keiken.cloud/work/wisdoms-for-love-3-0-2/

 

Creative coding: obso1337 

CGI: Keiken and Ryan Vautier 

Cinematography: Ryan Vautier  

Direction and words of end scene (Divine Mother pathway), motion capture performance and character: Sakeema Crook 

Assistant cinematography: Sarah Blome  

Score and sound design: wavesovspace 

Additional sound design: Rob Malone 

Moral contract concept collaboration: Suzannah Pettigrew, Wade Wallerstein + Transfer Gallery 

Blockchain and tech advice: Malik Paris  

Interactive sculpture: DDMY Studio + Supernormal 

 

CGI elements were originally co-commissioned by FACT Liverpool and Aspex Portsmouth. Interactive installation commissioned by Thailand Biennale 2021 and also readapted and exhibited at HEK, Basel 2021.

Keiken (GB) is an artist collective, co-founded by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori + Isabel Ramos. Keiken is the Japanese word for experience—an idea at the core of their practice. Keiken creates speculative worlds through filmmaking, gaming, installation, XR, blockchain + performance. Keiken are winners of the Chanel Next Prize 2021. Recent exhibitions: Julia Stoschek Collection; Photographers Gallery, London; 2nd Thailand Biennale. Ryan Vautier (GB) is a CGI artist + designer based in London who creates animated worlds exploring the digital + physical. Previous projects include 1975, Ms Banks, Grimes + Lucy Hardcastle. obso1337 (GB) is a collaborative + multi-disciplinary practice. Using code to create work that exploits technology between our digital + physical experiences. Previous exhibitions include Harlesden High Street, Austrian Cultural Forum and HEK. Sakeema Crook (GB) is a model, dancer + trans activist. Sakeema graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2015 + has toured works by Shobana Jeyasingh, Fevered Sleep + Holly Blakey.

Keiken (GB) is an artist collective, co-founded by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori + Isabel Ramos. Keiken is the Japanese word for experience—an idea at the core of their practice. Keiken creates speculative worlds through filmmaking, gaming, installation, XR, blockchain + performance. Keiken are winners of the Chanel Next Prize 2021. Recent exhibitions: Julia Stoschek Collection; Photographers Gallery, London; 2nd Thailand Biennale. Ryan Vautier (GB) is a CGI artist + designer based in London who creates animated worlds exploring the digital + physical. Previous projects include 1975, Ms Banks, Grimes + Lucy Hardcastle. obso1337 (GB) is a collaborative + multi-disciplinary practice. Using code to create work that exploits technology between our digital + physical experiences. Previous exhibitions include Harlesden High Street, Austrian Cultural Forum and HEK. Sakeema Crook (GB) is a model, dancer + trans activist. Sakeema graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2015 + has toured works by Shobana Jeyasingh, Fevered Sleep + Holly Blakey.