KALEN IWAMOTO & JULIEN SILVANO

Kalen Iwamoto is a conceptual writer and artist exploring the intersection of art and language on the blockchain. Her work takes blockchain technology and crypto culture as its point of departure, and focuses on playfulness, exploration and experimentation to push the boundaries of conceptual writing and art, and the NFT medium.

With Julien Silvano, she created Wen New Atelier, an art and language lab that experiments with text-based art and physical-digital works. She is also co-founder of theVERSEverse, an NFT poetry gallery where poem=work of art.

ROMEO AND JULIAPE

• 2023

• 30:00

• video installation

“Romeo and Juliape” is a love story written by both Kalen Iwamoto and AI, hosted on a blockchain, and presented at Binálé as a performance installation. It is a Wen New Atelier project created by Kalen Iwamoto and Julien Silvano, exploring the intersection of art and language through blockchain technology and crypto culture. Wen New Atelier is an art and language lab that experiments with text-based art and physical-digital works.