Naime Pakniyat has her educational background in graphic design and computer graphics (she studied in Iran). Her work has already been exhibited all over the world: USA, Palestine, Chile, Canada. Using classical pixel art aesthetics, Pakniyat masterfully translates Iranian miniature into Web 3 space, skillfully combining animated images with music.

“Music Room” is a classic scene, depicting men in a palace room listening to musicians. The image slowly moves to the beat of a light, unobtrusive musical composition.

Andrea Misiano

The more music plays, the more we move towards becoming one soul. 
This artwork is inspired by Persian miniature, pixelated and animated using Adobe Photoshop in 530 x 530 pixels.

Video information:
MP4 format
12 fps
11 sec loop
2120 x 2120 pixels

Music Room

The $100$ Million Ether Skull

The Ether Rembrandt (with a Rose Bouquet)

The Disasters of War

Catherine wheels

Rendezvous

Greater America Zero-Shannon, G

Anthropologically, the crypto world mostly consists of people who were culturally formed in the WEB 1.0 era (1990s). Therefore, MS DOS and Windows 3.11 aesthetics is present in visual elements of blockchain projects. At the same time, the high speed of the crypto world does not require long and detailed development of interface graphics. Thus, these two factors together gave a new impulse to this aesthetic. Being born within blockchain communities, NFT market has not been able to ignore this aesthetics, leading to numerous collections and drops actively using pixel art. This selection brings together not only works created in this nostalgic manner, but also those digital works that reference various iconic images and classical subjects from the art history. The Web 3 world only starts to understand that any image claiming any cultural significance cannot exist outside art history context.

WEB 1.0 Aesthetics and History of Art

History of art meets new old pixel aesthetics.

Music Room

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