Environmentally positive NFTs – Traceable Digital Ecologies

From 1 February to 29 February, Central Saint Martins’ Digital Innovation Season will explore and celebrate creativity in the digital space. This platform offers public talks and workshops for CSM students.The 2024 edition will focus on ‘Planetary Sensing’. This takes a ‘planetary’ perspective related to the climate crisis, social impact, and learning, teaching and research that engage cutting edge technologies like AI, IoT, wearables, and spatial computing. Rather than imagining a schism between the local and the global, a planetary perspective considers the material conditions of the planet - and how the earth understands and communicates through arrays of satellites, sensors, swarms, and servers that influence geographies, climate, and societies.

Central Saint Martins: Digital Innovation Season

Online workshop led by Amon Kale & Matthew Edwards

<h3><strong>This event is for CSM Students only.</strong></h3><p><strong>Please note:</strong> due to limited places this workshop is open to applications -  you will be asked questions when you click 'Register'.</p><p>Your application will be reviewed by the DIS team, and we will email you with a response. We aim to notify you of our decision as promptly as possible.</p><h3>The first part of this workshop will be a presentation about the environmental impact of NFT creation. Gradually, as the mainstream NFT marketplaces shift from energy-taxing proof of work verification systems to the energy efficient proof of stake, there exists the prospect of generating a new, positive conversation around NFT’s impact on the natural world. From fundraising opportunities to carbon credit systems to better tracking of endangered wildlife, a new avenue of environmental protection has been opened by the blockchain and NFT’s.  
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</h3><h3>In the second part of the workshop, participants will learn how to make (mint), buy and sell their own clean NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) and learn the investing and the creation side of NFTs and new opportunities that are presented with blockchain technology. You will gain a clear understanding of how NFTs and blockchains are useful for artists and creators and technology and the range of platforms available.
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<p>Thursday 5 May 5-7pm BST</p><p>Online </p><p>No prerequisites</p><p></p>

<p><a href="https://bafcsm.com/portfolios/amon-kale" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Amon Kale</a> is a designer, lecturer and special projects consultant in the Dean’s Office at Central Saint Martins, where his work focuses on financial and digital innovation in the design field. A graduate of the Fashion Programme, Amon’s practice is consumer oriented, with design work ranging from clothing to furniture, with a strong focus on sustainability, supply chain management and digital integration. He has worked with Nike, LVMH, Chloé, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and Warner Music. Amon is the recipient of the 2021 Bottega Veneta Scholar, grants from the UN Green Corps and Social Development Canada. He has been featured in Dazed Magazine, 1 Granary, Vogue Scandinavia, among others.</p>

<p><a href="https://matthewrobertedwards.myportfolio.com/work" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Matthew Edwards</a> is an artist, and the Technical Coordinator at Central Saint Martins' Digital Media Lab. His multimedia work is heavily influenced by the post industrial UK, focussing on unexplored narratives and the fallibility of memory. The work often is presented in video and sound installations, but has taken the form of portraiture, vignettes, found objects, 3D printing and 3D animation. Matthew has made work for 20 years, and shown at Guest Projects, Sydney College of Art, Chelsea Triangle, Islington Arts Factory. He graduated from MA Fine Art Digital at University of the Arts London, BA Hons Interactive Arts at MMU. </p>

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