Elevating Art: Nifty Gateway Studio Helps Bring Global Dialogue to Sam Spratt’s The Monument Game Exhibition in Venice, Italy

With support from 1OF1, Sam Spratt’s debut solo exhibition launched on April 17th at the Docks Cantieri Cucchini in Venice, Italy. Nifty Gateway Studio (NGS) developed proprietary technology to create an augmented version of The Monument Game that allowed in-person and remote viewers to interact with the exhibition via an Observer Station. The Observer Station allowed attendees to pan, zoom, leave their own Observation, and explore other shared Observations from participants around the world. NGS additionally created a projection mapping UI that allowed attendees to view a moving visual of coordinates on the artwork and their associated Observations on the walls of the exhibition. A read only version of the experience was concurrently launched, enabling people from around the globe to see the Observations left in Venice. You can view all Observations left in Venice here.

The event exposed Sam’s work, and the power of on-chain technology to a whole new world of visitors in Venice. Over 400 people left observations from all different walks of life - distinguished curators, leading museums, traditional collectors, and some of Web3’s finest artists. The impact of this was seen on Sam’s existing collections, with collectors of his unique pieces seeing as high as 16x their original settled auctions. Secondary volume during the exhibition escalated, reaching 420 ETH consisting of movement in Sam’s ecosystem of the Skulls of Luci, Player Edition and Monument Game character studies.

Visitors to the exhibition included Carolyn Christov, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Uli Sigg, Naomi Beckwith and Adam Levine.

Read more about The Monument Game Exhibition in ArtNews.com, ArtFrame, Cool Hunting and Outland.