Atomic Form is thrilled to be working with ancurated, One Love Art DAO (OLD), Sares, and Cat Russel as partners for our new Media Upload feature. One Love Art DAO and ancurated are growing decentralized communities and artist collectives that support a global roster of emerging artists, both focused on the importance of archiving history onchain. Sares, Cat Russel, and Rebecca Rose are digital artists working in varying interdisciplinary mediums, and are known for meticulous documentation of their creative processes.

Atomic Lore’s new Media Upload feature was developed after receiving requests from artists to upload additional media files (PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, MP4, and MOV) and attest work in progress (WIP) documents, catalogues, pricing data, behind the scene and exhibition photos to their NFTs and profiles onchain. This solution can further tell the story of who they are as creatives, and showcase behind the scenes documents.

It was challenging for artists to juggle dozens of Web2 storage links like Dropbox or Google Drive to send to collectors, curators and exhibitors, on top of sending the work itself, exhibition records, press and more. Artists found that URLs became broken, lost, or completely disorganized and felt unprofessional sending a huge list of links to prospective buyers.

There was a clear need for artists to associate contextualized media files – whether that be a CV, collector history, or photos of their studio – to an NFT, or collection of NFTs.

ancurated, an African and Afro-diaspora digital artist collective, needed assistance in permanently documenting their zine* SIXTEEN X NINE*. It had previously been minted on several marketplaces, only for the team to discover their minting platforms deprecated PDF support. The collective wanted permanent archiving of SIXTEEN X NINE as well as the ability to tie varying artists and artwork to the publication.

Sares, an Argentine emerging artist, was struggling to centralize all of his exhibition records, interviews, and series-related media. For his collection Dogma, Sares was able to attach a “Proof of Craft” document, sharing the complete process and meaning behind the series.

Mixed media artist Cat Russel’s work in progress photos were important for him save alongside Etchings: a labor intensive series of print-like collages. Dozens of documents were saved to his Onchain Collection, meticulously capturing the painstaking process of creating dynamic portraits.

Our team worked alongside One Love Art DAO to document AGAPE – a special collection using a Transient Labs ERC-7160 contract. This Multi-Creation Token holds 20 artworks within a single NFT. In order to further tell the collective story, OLD used Atomic Lore to upload images and lore of all art held within the singular token so they could be seamlessly displayed alongside each other and their history.

Artists and creative collectives are now empowered to permanently associate important documents to any tokenized asset, exhibition, collection, or series. Creating a work of art is not a simple process; our Media Upload feature helps artists show this reality. This feature also supports artists who would like support for NFTs minted on older or closed marketplaces. The ancurated team shared that, “What Atomic Form is doing is perfect because a lot of the marketplaces have removed PDF or visual access [to our NFT]. We really need somewhere to put this because we think it is important.”