What is ArtGumiDAO?
A streak of introverted art friends who are the best at their crafts coming out from their caves to support each other & do fun things together in Web3.
🧃About Us
ArtGumi was founded on 1st October 2021, originated as an NFT/Web3 study group of traditional artists in Osaka.
ArtGumiDAO, now, is an international non-profit community of artists, curators, galleries, educators, engineers, developers, researchers, art lovers, and everyone who share interests in art and building Web3 art world.
We aim to be a place for Web3 creative minds to come together to make true connection, learn new things, experiment, enjoy themselves and have fun together through arts. We believe that art, has power to inspired and move people’s hearts. Art can be one of the important factors for Web3 mass adoption especially for people with non-technical background. Art is the great communication tools to convey great ideas in the world as well as the best innovation playground. We encourage and support collaboration between art and technology.
☝️Fun fact
Gumi in Japanese means “gang / group / league” as well as “gummy candy.”
Members & membership
Currently, we have 107 members from different parts of the world
who are artists, curators, designers, developers, educators, engineers, galleries, web3 incubators, AI researchers, and art lovers.
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New members are accepted through friends of friends basis, invitation, as well as open application (but we have our members voted on new applicants no one knows to prevent possible bad actors and scammers).
Team
Founder :
Rinna Clanuwat Team :
Kior | Rukmunal Hakim | Dango | Duo Adviser :
Yudai Suzuki Fracton Ventures / DAO Tokyo / Next Web Capital
👯♀️ Activities
ArtGumi Art Picnic
Art Picnic is the weekly online talk, discussion, brainstorming sessions on topics ranging from arts, Web3 technologies, psychologies, decentralise philosophy, etc.
Past Picnic topics include, AR, AI, LLM Chat bot, Smart Contract, Pixel Arts, Art & Tech, Hardware Wallets, Gadgets, ERC-6551, Mental Health, Creative Routine, Branding, Marketing, What will you teach, Inspiration Boost, and more.
Every Thursday 10 PM JST non-stop since September 2022.
ArtZine
ArtGumi Digital ArtZine
(Coming Soon)
Exhibitions
2023
Rinna X ONBD SuperRare Space Exhibition(October 2023)
ArtGumi Planet of Us Exhibition on Foundation WORLD (April 2023)
2022
IRL event ArtGumi NFT Exhibition at Metasequoia Art Fair in Osaka (June 2022)
ArtGumi Exhibition in The Open Metaverse (April 2022)
Workshop
2022
ArtGumi x Fracton Ventures NFT workshop at the DECK Osaka (December 2022)
With great support from Fracton Ventures, in this workshop we introduced Web3/NFT from 0 to important topics such as CC0, Right Click Save As, deploying smart contracts on Manifold, minting artworks, as well as tip on community building as staying for the long term. The audience included lecturers and students from Kyoto Seika University, traditional artists in Osaka, as well as general public. The workshop was free of charge.