MASTERPEPES MUSEUM

◆ ROBNESS — CRYPTOARTIST DOSSIER ◆

ROBNESS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PIONEERING FIGURES IN THE HISTORY OF CRYPTOART. HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SPACE DATES TO ITS EARLIEST INCEPTION — AMONG THE FIRST ARTISTS TO MINT ON BITCOIN'S COUNTERPARTY PROTOCOL, HE BECAME A FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOR TO THE RARE PEPE TRADING CARD COLLECTION BEGINNING IN 2016, HELPING GROW WHAT WOULD BECOME THE FIRST TRULY DECENTRALIZED CRYPTOART COMMUNITY AND AN EARLY PROOF-OF-CONCEPT FOR WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LATER CALL NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS. HIS DEBUT WORK, PEPEBEEFTAXI, WAS MINTED ON THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN THAT SAME YEAR. IN 2019, ROBNESS BROUGHT HIS PRACTICE TO SUPERRARE, KNOWORIGIN, AND OPENSEA. IN 2020 HE CREATED 64 GALLON TOTER — A GLITCHED GIF OF A TRASH CAN — WHICH SUPERRARE REMOVED FROM THE PLATFORM IN A COPYRIGHT DISPUTE, MAKING IT THE FIRST WORK EVER PULLED FROM A CRYPTOART COLLECTION. THE INCIDENT IGNITED THE GLOBAL #TRASHART MOVEMENT, INSPIRED THOUSANDS OF TRIBUTE WORKS WORLDWIDE, AND WON THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD AT THE 2020 NFT AWARDS. THE ACT IS WIDELY COMPARED TO DUCHAMP'S FOUNTAIN — A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO WHO DECIDES WHAT CONSTITUTES ART. IN ONE OF THE MOST DISCUSSED ACTS IN NFT HISTORY, ROBNESS ACQUIRED AND BURNED CRYPTOPUNK #2317 — PERMANENTLY DESTROYING ONE OF THE MOST COVETED DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES IN EXISTENCE AS AN ARTISTIC AND IDEOLOGICAL STATEMENT. THE BURN WAS VISUALIZED THROUGH AN INCINERATOR VIDEO USING PHOTOMOSH, LEAVING A PERMANENT MARK ON BLOCKCHAIN HISTORY AND SPARKING WIDESPREAD DEBATE ABOUT VALUE, DESTRUCTION, AND OWNERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE. ROBNESS WAS FEATURED IN THE DOCUMENTARY FILM "WHAT THE PUNK," WHICH CHRONICLED THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CRYPTOPUNK COLLECTION AND THE ARTISTS AND COLLECTORS WHO SHAPED IT. HIS WORKS HAVE ALSO BEEN INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU IN PARIS — ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS FOR MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART — CEMENTING HIS STATUS AS A CANONICAL FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF DIGITAL ART. HE IS THE CREATOR OF THE MASTERPEPES MUSEUM — THE PROJECT YOU ARE STANDING IN RIGHT NOW — A 3D INTERACTIVE MONUMENT TO THE FULL ARC OF CRYPTOART HISTORY, FROM CAVE WALL TO BLOCKCHAIN.

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◆ 64 GALLON TOTER — THE #TRASHART ORIGIN ◆

IN JANUARY 2020, ROBNESS MINTED A GLITCH-FILTERED GIF OF A 64-GALLON TRASH CAN — SOURCED FROM THE HOME DEPOT WEBSITE AND RUN THROUGH PHOTOMOSH — ONTO SUPERRARE. THE PLATFORM REMOVED IT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, CITING COPYRIGHT CONCERNS AND CALLING IT NOT "ORIGINAL" ART. SUPERRARE CEO JOHN CRAIN TOLD COINTELEGRAPH IT WAS "A GIF OF A TRASH BIN FROM THE HOME DEPOT WEBSITE" — DISMISSING IT. THEY WERE SPECTACULARLY WRONG ABOUT ITS SIGNIFICANCE. THE REMOVAL DETONATED. ARTISTS FLOODED PLATFORMS WITH DELIBERATELY PROVOCATIVE, LOW-EFFORT TRASH-THEMED WORKS IN SOLIDARITY. THE #TRASHART HASHTAG — FIRST COINED BY ARTIST BARBARA TOSTI ON FEBRUARY 5, 2020, THEN CEMENTED BY J1MMY.ETH AND JAYDELAY.ETH IN MARCH — BECAME THE RALLYING POINT FOR WHAT WOULD BECOME THE FIRST CRYPTO-NATIVE ART MOVEMENT IN HISTORY. THE MOVEMENT DREW DIRECT COMPARISONS TO DUCHAMP'S FOUNTAIN AND THE DADA MOVEMENT — A COLLECTIVE "FUCK YOU" TO GATEKEEPING AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL OF ART. NOTABLE ARTISTS IN THE MOVEMENT INCLUDE MAX OSIRIS (ALSO BANNED FROM SUPERRARE AND FOUNDATION), CRYPTOYUNA, JAYDELAY, ERIC RHODES, COLLIN DYER (MAINTAINER OF TRASHART.IO), SECOND REALM, KAMISAMA, OOAKOSIMO, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS WORLDWIDE. THE MOVEMENT SPREAD TO TEZOS VIA THE #TEZTRASH PHENOMENON, LED BY ARTISTS INCLUDING EMPRESS TRASH AND MAX CAPACITY. THE LANDMARK SALE CAME IN OCTOBER 2021, WHEN ROBNESS'S "BRUTE TRASH CAN" — A SEPARATE WORK IN THE TRASHART SERIES — WAS PURCHASED BY PROMINENT COLLECTOR VINCENTVANDOUGH FOR 60 ETH ($252,000). HIS WORK "OILMELON" ALSO SOLD FOR $200,000 TO THE STARRYNIGHT COLLECTION. THE 64 GALLON TOTER ITSELF WAS REINSTATED BY SUPERRARE AFTER PUBLIC PRESSURE — MAKING IT THE ONLY PIECE IN CRYPTOART HISTORY TO BE REMOVED AND REINSTATED BY A PLATFORM. THE MOVEMENT WAS COVERED BY COINTELEGRAPH IN AN ARTICLE TITLED "IMMUTABLE TRASH: CRYPTOART REVISITS ARGUMENTS ON CENSORSHIP AND MEANING," AND HAS SINCE BEEN WRITTEN UP BY RIGHT CLICK SAVE, VERTICALCRYPTO ART, MUSEUM OF CRYPTO ART (MOCA), NFTS.WTF, CREATIVE BLOQ, AND ART CRITIC KENNY SCHACHTER. IT WAS AWARDED THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD AT THE 2020 NFT AWARDS. IN 2022, ROBNESS CURATED "#TRASHART: NFT GARBOLOGY" AT L'AVANT-GALERIE VOSSEN IN PARIS (58 RUE CHAPON, 75003), RUNNING MARCH 26 TO MAY 14 — THE WORLD'S FIRST DEDICATED TRASHART GALLERY EXHIBITION. ROBNESS AND TWO OF HIS WORKS ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN TASCHEN'S LANDMARK PUBLICATION "ON NFTS" BY ROBERT ALICE — THE FIRST MAJOR ART-HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE NFT MEDIUM, PUBLISHED WORLDWIDE.

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◆ LORDKEK — DEITY OF THE RARE PEPES ◆

LORDKEK IS SERIES 1, CARD 34 OF THE RARE PEPE COLLECTION — ONE OF THE MOST LEGENDARY AND MYTHOLOGIZED ASSETS IN ALL OF BLOCKCHAIN ART HISTORY. IT IS CONSIDERED THE PRESIDING DEITY OF THE RARE PEPE UNIVERSE, A DIVINE FIGURE WHOSE CREATION STORY IS AS EXTRAORDINARY AS THE CARD ITSELF. THE CARD WAS MINTED ONTO THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN VIA THE COUNTERPARTY PROTOCOL IN 2016 BY ROBNESS — THE SAME ARTIST BEHIND THIS VERY MUSEUM. THE ARTWORK WAS CREATED BY A SECOND ARTIST, @NEEDMONEY90. THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE WAS 10 CARDS. HOWEVER, WHEN MINTING, ROBNESS ACCIDENTALLY MADE THE CARD INFINITELY DIVISIBLE — A CRITICAL MISTAKE THAT WOULD BECOME CENTRAL TO THE CARD'S MYTHOLOGY. AS COLLECTORS BEGAN TRADING FRACTIONAL AMOUNTS, THE CARD SHATTERED INTO COUNTLESS PARTICLES, KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY AS "DUST." TODAY, ONLY 7 KNOWN ADDRESSES HOLD A COMPLETE LORDKEK CARD, AND THOSE HOLDERS ARE CONSIDERED EXTREMELY UNLIKELY TO SELL. THE ONLY DISPENSERS OFFERING LORDKEK ON THE OPEN MARKET SELL FRACTIONS AS SMALL AS .00001 — MAKING A WHOLE CARD PRACTICALLY UNATTAINABLE FOR ANY SINGLE COLLECTOR. THIS ACCIDENTAL FRAGMENTATION HAS MADE LORDKEK ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST COVETED OBJECTS IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF CRYPTO COLLECTIBLES. WHEN ROBNESS AND NEEDMONEY90 WERE ASKED ABOUT THE DIVISIBILITY ACCIDENT, BOTH CONCLUDED INDEPENDENTLY THAT THE FORCES AT WORK WERE TOO POWERFUL TO BE MERE HUMAN ERROR. THEY AGREED: IT MUST HAVE BEEN KEK HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE LORDKEK CARD. THE CARD IS WIDELY SPOKEN OF AS POSSESSING MYSTICAL PROPERTIES AND IS THEREFORE CONSIDERED MAGICAL BY THE RARE PEPE COMMUNITY. THE BOOK OF KEK — THE DEFINITIVE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE RARE PEPE UNIVERSE MAINTAINED AT WIKI.PEPE.WTF — DESCRIBES IT SIMPLY AS "A DEITY OF THE RARE PEPES." KEK IS AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GOD OF PRIMORDIAL DARKNESS AND CHAOS, WORSHIPPED IN THE CITY OF HERMOPOLIS. IN INTERNET CULTURE, KEK BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH LUCK, CHAOS, AND MEMETIC POWER — THE DIVINE FORCE BEHIND THE PROPAGATION OF RARE PEPES ACROSS THE BLOCKCHAIN. TO HOLD A GRAIN OF LORDKEK DUST IS, BY COMMUNITY BELIEF, TO HOLD A FRAGMENT OF THAT DIVINE ENERGY. LORD KEK PATROLS THIS MUSEUM FROM ABOVE — A PERPETUAL GUARDIAN OF THE 150 WORKS BELOW.

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◆ DESKTOP STATUE SYSTEMS LIMITED ◆

DESKTOP STATUE SYSTEMS LIMITED (DSSL) IS A PFP (PROFILE PICTURE) NFT PROJECT LAUNCHED ON THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN ON MAY 11, 2022 BY CRYPTOARTIST ROBNESS. THE COLLECTION CONSISTS OF 11,111 UNIQUE STATUE SYSTEMS — AI-GENERATED VAPORWAVE BUSTS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH MIDJOURNEY, METICULOUSLY HAND-CURATED BY ROBNESS FROM OVER 40,000 GENERATED OUTPUTS. THE PROJECT DESCRIBES ITSELF AS "A RANGE OF ABSTRACT PRODUCTS BROUGHT TO YOU FROM THE DREAMS OF SUPERINTELLIGENCE" — SCULPTED STATUE TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE INFINITE SUPERFUTURE, DELIVERED TO THE PRESENT FOR YOUR PERSONAL ENJOYMENT. EACH PIECE IN THE COLLECTION IS A CAREFULLY SELECTED SYSTEM FROM THAT LIMITLESS FUTURE CATALOG, RENDERED IN THE VAPORWAVE AESTHETIC THAT HAS DEFINED ROBNESS' VISUAL IDENTITY ACROSS HIS CAREER. THE LAUNCH HAD A DRAMATIC ORIGIN STORY WORTHY OF THE #TRASHART LEGACY: IN THE ELEVENTH HOUR BEFORE THE DROP, ROBNESS DISCOVERED HIS DEVELOPER WAS A SCAMMER. IN HIS SIGNATURE ALL-CAPS STYLE, HE ISSUED AN EMERGENCY CALL TO NFT TWITTER — AND THE COMMUNITY RESPONDED. DEVELOPER @JEFFTHEDUNKER ARRIVED ON A "CRYPTO CHARIOT" WITH HOURS TO SPARE. GOVERNOR DAO STEPPED UP, DEPLOYED THE MINT CONTRACT, AND THE COLLECTION LAUNCHED ON SCHEDULE AT 0.08 ETH. DSSL IS MORE THAN A PFP PROJECT — IT IS AN EXTENSION OF ROBNESS' BROADER ARTISTIC PHILOSOPHY: THAT TECHNOLOGY, AI, AND AESTHETIC SYSTEMS CAN PRODUCE WORK OF GENUINE ARTISTIC VALUE. THE COMPENDIUM AT COMPENDIUM.DSSL.LTD SERVES AS AN INTERNAL NFT MARKETPLACE WHERE HOLDERS CAN TRADE SYSTEMS WITHIN THE DSSL ECOSYSTEM. THE COLLECTION IS HELD BY 610+ WALLETS WORLDWIDE AND REMAINS AN ACTIVE PART OF THE ROBNESS CRYPTOART UNIVERSE.

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◆ MASTERPEPES — THE BOOK ◆

MASTERPEPES IS A SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK BY CRYPTOARTIST ROBNESS, AVAILABLE IN PRINT VIA INGRAMSPARK. AT ITS CORE IT IS A WORK OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY — A REIMAGINING OF THE ENTIRE ARC OF HUMAN ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AS IF PEPE THE FROG, ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE AND CULTURALLY RESONANT MEMES IN INTERNET HISTORY, HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. FROM THE CAVE WALL PAINTINGS OF THE PALAEOLITHIC TO THE BLOCKCHAIN TOKENS OF THE CRYPTOART PRESENT, EVERY ERA OF ART IS REFRAMED THROUGH THE LENS OF MEMETICS AND THE PEPE MYTHOS. EACH OF THE 150 PAGES FEATURES AN ARTWORK ACCOMPANIED BY A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION AND A QR CODE THAT LINKS DIRECTLY TO THE ACTUAL XCP/COUNTERPARTY ASSET ON THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN. THE SUPPLY OF EACH ASSET IS DETERMINED BY HOW MANY SLOTS WERE SOLD DURING THE DROP — ANY REMAINING SUPPLY WILL BE PERMANENTLY BURNED AFTER THE SALE, MAKING EACH PIECE'S FINAL EDITION SIZE A DIRECT FUNCTION OF COLLECTOR DEMAND. THIS IS AN ENTIRELY NEW GENRE OF PUBLICATION. THOUGH THE BOOK IS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC AS A PHYSICAL OBJECT, ITS INTERIOR CONTENTS ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY ACTIVE IN THE NFT ART MARKET — EACH PAGE IS BOTH A BOOK PAGE AND A GATEWAY TO A COLLECTIBLE ON-CHAIN ASSET. THE BOOK AND THE BLOCKCHAIN COLLECTION ARE ONE UNIFIED ART PROJECT. MASTERPEPES IS ALSO AN EXPLICIT DEMONSTRATION OF WHAT A.I. CAN DO IN LONG-FORM ARTISTIC CONTEXTS. ROBNESS ASSEMBLED THE ENTIRE PROJECT — AESTHETICALLY, TEXTUALLY, AND CONCEPTUALLY — WITH A.I. AS A COLLABORATOR. THE BOOK ITSELF IS AN A.I. DEMONSTRATION PIECE; THE COLLECTION OF WORK WITHIN IT ILLUSTRATES THE EXPANSIVENESS OF THOSE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES. IN ROBNESS' OWN TERMS: HE TRIED TO MAKE THIS AS "FAKE" AND "DANK" AS POSSIBLE — A PHRASE THAT CARRIES THE FULL WEIGHT OF HIS HISTORY WITH THE RARE PEPE COMMUNITY, THE #TRASHART MOVEMENT, AND HIS LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO THE IDEA THAT THE MOST SUBVERSIVE, IRREVERENT, AND DELIBERATELY LOW-BROW ART IS OFTEN THE MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

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