Tokens of Humanity
Randy Kart’s mixed-media series Tokens of Humanity features the artist’s characteristic monochrome palette and rich, textural play in a display of striking depth.
The range of works in this series are anything but stagnant: Each work conceals or suggests hope, tension and motion in three-dimensional detail, an object twisting its way toward the viewer or disappearing behind the safety of its frame.
“This series is meant to bring awareness to the hope and innovation that exist beneath the superficial view. How the actions of a few can be of great humanitarian benefit to the many. Using these tokens to document the technical discoveries and innovations that change the world forever.”
tokens of humanity \ actions of a few that benefit the many.
token \ to·ken \ ˈtō-kən \ an outward sign or expression.
humanity \ hu·man·i·ty \ hyü-ˈma-nə-ty \ compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior or disposition : the quality or state of being humane.
“I see myself as a modern historian, a curator of ideas. Taking an important moment in time, capturing it and creating a visual marker. The final stage in the lifecycle is the placement of work. The work no longer belongs to me. It resides with a new caretaker. The work started with the actions, motivations and passion of another. All I did was to help visualize and facilitate that connection. The process has come full circle and will now live forever - As a physical piece of art and on the blockchain”
A nod to post-war Spatialism translated for modern America, Tokens of Humanity brings a similar sculptural tension and sense of movement to the surface of the tokens, causing viewers to question where the image stops and what lies beneath the frame.
Through skillful manipulation of visual fields—the tokens are weighted and torn, painted and scratched, stretched and sculpted —Kart’s idiosyncratic, irresistibly tactile style infuses each work with the covert momentum of an unbearable truth on the verge of escape.
INTERPLANETARY COMMERCE / NFT VARIANT
INTERPLANETARY COMMERCE / NFT VARIANT
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Series / Tokens of Humanity
Reference / NFT.IC.2021.01
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Blockchain / Ethereum
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in the first quarter of 2022, with the company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency as full payment for the lunar payload.
Geometric Energy Corporation announced the dogecoin-funded mis
LEGAL TENDER / NFT VARIANT
LEGAL TENDER / NFT VARIANT
2623 x 2623 Pixels
Series / Tokens of Humanity
Reference / NFT.LT.2021.02
Edition Size / 1
Blockchain / Polygon
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to formally adopt cryptocurrency after its Congress voted overwhelmingly to approve a law classifying Bitcoin as legal tender.
"The #BitcoinLaw has been approved by a supermajority in the Salvadoran Congress. 62 ou
NEURALINK
NEURALINK
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Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.NL.2021.04
Developing high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and machines.
Neuralink is creating the future of brain interfaces: building devices now that will help people with paralysis and inventing new technologies that will expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
DIGITAL IMMORTALITY
DIGITAL IMMORTALITY
2623 x 2623 Pixels
Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.DI.2021.05
BUILDING BLOCKS
BUILDING BLOCKS
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Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.BB.2021.06
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has begun using blockchain technology to securely and transparently distribute immediate cash assistance to hungry people in remote and difficult-to-access parts of the world. The WFP’s pilot blockchain program, called Building Blocks, is demonstrating how bl
UNIVERSAL DEMOCRACY
UNIVERSAL DEMOCRACY
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Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.UD.2021.07
Blockchain can even help optimize the democratic process. Traditional methods of voting can be difficult to count and trace, which can prove an obstacle in the way of democracy. Voting via blockchain can make elections more stable and quantifiable.
Because blockchain is decentralized and enc
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
INVISIBLE CHILDREN
2623 x 2623 Pixels
Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.IC.2021.08
Today, nearly half of the world’s children under the age of 5 – and over 600 million children under 14 years old – do not have a birth certificate or official proof of their identity. These children are “invisible” to social programs designed to protect them. Instead, they are easy prey f
Ether
ETHER
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Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.E.2021.09
Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether (ETH) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Amongst cryptocurrencies, Ether is second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization.
Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin. In 2014, develo
TRUST
TRUST
2623 x 2623 Pixels
Series / Tokens of Humanity
Edition Size / 1
Reference / NFT.T.2021.10
MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Study: Large-Scale Naturalistic Driving Study of Driver Behavior and Interaction with Automation.
Video - MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Study (MIT-AVT)
Video - MIT-AVT: Data Collection Device.
Paper (PDF) - MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Study