EDEN Stories – season 1 – 3615 Gleeden
December 2021
21 Minitel screen-pages
Videotex
21 prints based on Minitel screen pages, limited edition, 40×30cm
Print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth 305g, pigment inkjet print on Epson P20 000
1 installation
Black and white Minitel, colour video projection, wooden side table
15 animated GIFS and 6 PNG images based on Minitel screen pages
Each GIF and PNG image is associated with an NFT archived on the Tezos blockchain and distributed on the Objkt platform
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Description
Entitled 3615 Gleeden, Season 1 is inspired by Minitel Rose, a popular erotic chat service from the heyday of the French Minitel. The service was generally accessible by dialling 3615 followed by a first name. While 3615 echoes the 1980s-1990s, the name Gleeden refers to a dating site from the 2010s-2020s.
Once upon a time, EDEN was a character who logged on to a dating site. In the course of chatting, EDEN discovers that it’s not really a person, but rather a digital file, moving between two worlds, that of the Minitel years and the contemporary world of blockchains.
As such, it can be reproduced ad infinitum, can be permanently modified, can change format or be exported. EDEN is an exportable literary being. EDEN first appears in the form of a telematic file (videotex). It then becomes a JPEG and a GIF, and is finally embodied as an NFT on the Tezos blockchain. In short, the character is nothing more than a line of text on a contract.
3615 Gleeden establishes a dialogue between an old technical medium (the Minitel) and a new one (the blockchains ). The work has two dimensions: a telematic installation to reenact the Minitel era, and limited edition prints and NFTs for collectors. Halfway between art and digital literature, EDEN Stories is a collectable fiction.
Exhibition
25.05 – 15.07 2023 – Exhibition POÈME SBJKT – Curated by theVERSEverse & Avant Galerie Vossen – Avant Galerie Vossen Hors les murs at Librairie Métamorphoses, Paris, 6e, France.