3D Virtual Group Exhibition

As human beings begin to shift away from the physical world in favor of virtual and augmented realities, the world of art stands at the center of a global movement where immersive worlds, online avatars, and the advent of a digital blockchain-based-future will inevitably have a profound impact on art, culture, politics, activism and the economy.

The 2023 Future Art Awards: The Digital Awakening extended an open call to U.S. artists from all walks of life and creative expressions wishing to use their art to reimagine what a high-tech, highly connected future metaverse could look that is also deeply human. Over 350 artists submitted works that contemplated our relationship to the digital realm, including the impact of Web 3.0. on individual and collective identity, the environment, and the latent potential of a democratized, decentralized art world.

25 award-winning U.S. artists were selected by a jury of their peers to exhibit in the virtual exhibition across the following three art categories: Non-NFTs, NFTs and NFT Collections. Each featured artist uses the power of contemporary art to shape important ideas, questions, values and themes in the crypto-art space. We celebrate their creative contributions to this emerging field of art.

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The 2023 Future Art Awards: The Digital Awakening honors outstanding contemporary artworks, individual NFTs as well as NFT collections for creative excellence across the following categories: originality, personality, quality of composition, creativity, skills, concepts of activism, justice or representation, overall emotional impression and adherence to the awards’ theme: The Digital Awakening.