The free online crypto game asking viewers to sign a binding “moral contract”

Digital art collective Keiken are well known for test driving possible futures through their cutting edge practice. At November’s Nicer Tuesdays, the studio’s co-founders Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos stepped up to the podium to tell us a bit about the phygital work, introducing us to Keiken’s creative ethos and the technicalities that go into creating new virtual worlds. Taking the audience on explorations of the metaverse along the way (future iterations of the internet connected by virtual realities) Keiken then introduced us to new game Wisdoms of Love 3.0, a game that started off as a five-channel installation and has since evolved to become an immersive game where users dive into the metaverse and are encouraged to collect free wisdom tokens in a kind of binding “moral contract”.

There are a total of 81 artworks or wisdom tokens to collect along the way, and during the conceptual talk, Hana and Isabel took us through the design of some of the beautiful charms in question. Elsewhere, they discussed the point of view of the game and how it pulls the players further into the game using a bird’s eye view, and also talked through the various reimagining of how the collective views the universe and body. “Our work is constantly in a state of metamorphosis,” the collective added on a final note, explaining how the work is kept alive through mutating themes and vehicles of expression. And to find out more on Keiken’s work, watch the video above.