Fossilized Film Reel No. 3

“Fossilized Film Reel No. 3” - Wharton. Dec, 2020. Video: 57sec. 2160px w. 2700px h.

Winners of the auction will receive a custom fossilized USB organism with the full 6gb video file on it.

Sound Design: Erik Shiboski

About the series: Recently, Wharton has been exploring collector culture and the traditions of “Cabinets of Curiosities”. These collections often contained strange and mysterious artifacts in addition to natural, historical and religious relics. These spaces created a microcosm of the world we live in and were precursors to modern day museums.

This series explores the relationship between this old tradition and modern-day NFT collections, imagining what types of artifacts, old film reels and organisms might be stored in these metaverse cabinets of curiosities. These digital organisms emulate how special conditions, like the creation of the blockchain/metaverse, can give rise to many rich, new and strange customs, communities, cycles and emergent cultures.