The virtual art fair for 3D, metaverse & VR creators.
26-29 March 2024
@decentraland
. Director
@baybackner
.
Awards the Decentraland Prize - $9000 pool
#DCLAW2
Show your work at MESH, the art fair for 3D, metaverse and VR creators
→
@decentraland
July 2023
MESH Open Call for Artists is now OPEN
Discover the leading galleries and collectors taking part - and apply here →
GM, HNY,
📍MESHfair returns to
@decentraland
,
26 - 29 March 2024.
The Open Call will launch this month, January 2024.
Turn on🔔, tag 3D artists, get ready for Edition 2.0.
'The metaverse is better with people' = the reason we chose to launch MESH in
@Decentraland
Decentraland (or DCL) has one of the strongest virtual communities.
We were able to build MESH thanks to the support of the people that are building this community - people like
Join us Thurs 18th May for MESH PREVIEW
= 8 immersive new art installations
@decentraland
= teaser of what's to come at MESH art fair in July
Live tour with
@theWIPmeetup
Starts
@EdificeMeta
(2, -39) 3pm ET / 7pm UTC
Pre- + after-party
@Uniquehorns_nft
(-69, 69)
RSVP
That was INCREDIBLE. Congratulations to everyone who made MESHfair 2024 such a success!
We'll catch up on sharing videos shortly. In the meantime, here are some of our snapshots from the EPIC live tours
@decentraland
#dclaw24
Decentraland innovator
@tangpoko
is not only the metaverse's first 'official supermodel', she's now bridging metaverses on
@monaverse
new Avatar Marketplace!
Join the must-listen space tomorrow, 8pm UTC
Six days til MESH, so in six hours we announce...
the six MESH artists who will be showing with us tomorrow at
@nftshoweurope
In this incredible location ↓↓↓
ZERO days til MESH.
Join us today as we open Metaverse Art Week 2023
#MVAW23
with a guided tour of new immersive installations like these.
5pm UTC / 7pm CET / 1pm ET
Voice:
Experience:
See you there!
Just ONE DAY until we open MESHfair 2024.
Time to thank our fifteen incredible curators who selected the 32 artists you'll see this year.
They represent leading international galleries, NFT collections, and publications. We are honored to have their participation! TYSM from
One day til MESH, so set your reminder for our one, special OPENING TOUR! You're invited.
Join us tomorrow, Weds 19th July
↳ 5pm UTC / 7pm CET / 1pm ET
with
@stephanduq
@PeanutbuttaDCL
@leahsmithsonart
in convo with
@BayBackner
Hear the tour via our Twitter Space:
AND... WE'RE BACK NEXT WEEK!
Be there at the opening of MESHfair 2024 - Tues 26 March
@decentraland
. While you wait, enjoy the epicness of this 2023 recap by
@NeoDCL
Join us next week for exclusive LIVE talks with major artists, galleries and curators.
Meet us virtually
@Decentraland
(61, 61) - you don't need a headset, just enter via the link below.
📍Add all talks to your calendar in your own timezone here:
“And every artist in this space right now is making history” -
-
@baybackner
on
#MESHfair
today in CryptoNews
Talking women artists, discoverability and VR.
BOOM! Less than 24 hours til MESHfair... and time to start letting you in on some of the 32 new 3D works.
YES, THESE ARE ALL IN
@DECENTRALAND
🔥
#DCLAW24
Who's coming with us to
@MetageistVR
's mind-blowing installation?
See you at MESHfair Tour 1: 5pm UTC / 10am PST, starting at
@decentraland
coord 61,61
#dclaw24
Today we'll drop just 50 editions of this MESHfair 2024 Visitor NFT
Have you claimed yours at ?
Just 12 hours left to send your address and feedback!
Find out more about the NFT below.
Delighted to announce that
@omz_nft
is one of the twelve MESH curators.
Omz is a highly respected collector and founder of
@filtered_art
Omz will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June).
Just ONE DAY left to enter the
#MESHfair
Open Call for artists.
Entries close tomorrow at midnight UTC:
- Free to enter
- Quick - only portfolio required
- Selection by leading international curators
- $9000 prize pool
➡️Info & enter
#opencall
#b3d
Delighted to announce that Danielle King
@Rrose_Selavy_11
is one of the twelve MESH curators.
Danielle is an artist, curator & collector, as well as the CFO & COO of
@club_nft
Danielle will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June).
Coming soon for Metaverse Art Week 2023
We're currently deep in code, installing the MESH cubes created by each artist. The works are incredible.
You can experience them all, 19 - 23 July
#MVAW23
@decentraland
Join us today for the final tour and Twitter Space of MESH and Metaverse Art Week 2023
5pm UTC / 7pm CET / 1pm ET
Hear
@AlexEstorick
of
@RtClick_Save
, artist
@alexadkinson
and collectors
@omz_nft
@Belle_nfts
share their MESH experiences... and their perspectives on Future Art
Today's inspiration
Seafoam Gardens 3D environment
@decentraland
by
@SeafoamSinner
Seafoam aka Ed Hoiland is a metaverse native 3D artist and founder of
@LaDolceVitaMW
digital fashion house
Ed: Let us know the co-ords & your wearables in the comments :)
Just a day left to enter MESH, the art fair for 3D, metaverse + VR creators.
Here's how the fair took shape - from the idea of a 'white cube' virtual fair... to our preview show... to the launch this July.
Enter now at
Deadline: 1st June 11.55pm CET
A massive TYSM to all 72 artists that applied to the first ever MESH Open Call. The level of your submissions is beyond anything we imagined.
Entries are now closed.
Good luck everyone! 🤞🤞🤞
Delighted to announce that Johnny Dean Mann
@GuysWily
is one of the twelve MESH curators.
Johnny is a writer, artist and co-editor of
@InWarhol
, the legendary
#tezos
art magazine
Johnny will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June)
Announcing that
@keyvass
is one of the twelve MESH curator-selectors
Kate is founder
@katevassgalerie
the pioneering gallery linking traditional and digital art, +
@_K011_
the web3 platform
Kate will select artists for MESH from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June)
Delighted to announce that Micheal Beets
@WideawakeBeets
is one of the twelve MESH curators.
Beets is founder & director
@hereandnow_exp
- the annual epic art experience on
#tezos
Beets will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June)
Delighted to announce that
@AlexEstorick
is one of the twelve MESH curators.
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of
@rtclick_save
& Contributing Editor
@FlashArtOnWeb
Alex will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June).
Meet two incredible MESH artists:
@hanneshummel
- a focus on the complexity of organic structures - symmetry, tessellations, patterns within patterns
@Mortezaaa_
- revealing the underlying patterns and structures that connect all things, from microcosmic to macrocosmic
You know, MESHfair is part of Decentraland Art Week 2024
#DCLAW24
And we open tomorrow!*
Don't miss it. March 26 - 29
@decentraland
*(Oh, and tomorrow claim your exclusive DAY ONE MESHfair Purple Halo wearable - for
#PurpleDay
only! Find it for free among the cubes!)
Tomorrow is DAY ONE of MESHfair 2024 and we start our live tours at 5pm UTC / 10am PST
Join us in
@decentraland
at coordinate 61,61 and watch live on the Decentraland Twitter.
Missed all this?!
You have just ONE more chance to catch a LIVE MESHfair Artist Talk & Tour for
#dclaw24
Join us for our final tour today at 5pm UTC / 10am PST
-
@decentraland
coordinate 61,61 or watch via Decentraland X.
Get your virtual inspiration. No headset required.
Seven days to go to MESH.
Let's spotlight seven of our curator-selectors.
Without their enthusiasm, MESH would have stayed a wild idea. Thanks to their support, 33 artists will present new immersive works.
Join us in 45 mins for DAY 2 of Metaverse Art Week:
5pm UTC / 1pm ET
MESH Art Innovation Tour & Twitter Space
with
@baybackner
@WZwieback
@MattiaC
Voice:
In-world:
7pm UTC / 3pm ET
The WIP Meetup at MESH
with
Artists you should know. Part 21.
@devharlan
- NYC-based artist exploring themes of landscape, anthropogenic change, technological consumption. Questions the narrative that human societies + tech are separate from the natural world.
Experience Dev's new installation at
Artists you should know. Part 19:
@MetageistVR
- Uk-based VR artist, world builder + evangelist for all things open metaverse. Building a living digital world asset by asset.
Experience Metageist's new immersive work at
#MESHfair
26-29 March,
@Decentraland
Art Week
#dclaw24
Have you checked out the whole program of
@decentraland
Art Week 2024? We're proud to be part of this ground-breaking annual festival.
Visit the Ultimate Guide to plan your next three days:
Live performance, immersive galleries, free & open to all, no
Meet two of the extraordinary artists in MESH:
@NyankeeDCL
- Japanese manga artist,
#1
in LINE Manga's independent underground genre
@nipetrov
- Siberia-born contemporary artist, living and working in St. Petersburg
Now creating new works for MESH, 19-23 July
#MVAW23
Artists you should know. Part 25.
@sabatobox
- Brazilian new media artist and photographer based in Western Massachusetts whose work centers around glitch and post-photography.
Explore Sabato's latest work at
#MESHfair
26 - 29 March -
@decentraland
Art Week
#dclaw24
POV: When it's MESHfair DAY ONE and you have two live art tours to miss work for.
*we're also live streaming on
@decentraland
X + LinkedIN if you need to sneakily listen in via headphones. Links in comments.
Delighted to announce that
@Belle_nfts
is one of the twelve MESH curators.
Belle is a collector, Co-founder of
@XYZNews_IO
and Head of Curation at
@NFTgirl
Collection
Belle will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June).
Delighted to announce that
@QuirarteOrnelas
are one of the twelve MESH curators
Quirarte + Ornelas are artists & curators based in Mexico and contributors to
@1of1xtz
@QuirarteOrnelas
will select artists for July's MESH art fair from our ongoing Open Call (closes 1st June)
Artists you should know. Part 9:
@_Su_ceren
- the artist investigating the coevolution of humanity + technology. At the nexus of cybernetic theory + art.
Ceren's new immersive work for MESHfair opens 26-29 March, part of
@Decentraland
Art Week
#dclaw24
If you were on our tour just now, you'll have heard about the work of
@devharlan
(MESH cube 12)
Here's Dev's recent article
@RtClick_Save
that we recommended on technostalgia/retrofuturism
Full recording here:
cc
@WZwieback
"instead of recreating the world that we live in, we can push new worlds that create experiences we could never have in the real world"
-
@leahsmithsonart
in today's great piece on
@MESHfair
by
@kneadmag
#DCLAW24
VR artists you should know. Part 2:
@BosqueGracias
- the art-permaculture collective from Patagonia Argentina. Behind the
@vuelapelucas
art camp.
Bosque's new immersive work for MESHfair opens 26-29 March, part of Decentraland Art Week
@decentraland
#dclaw24
#b3d
Artists you should know. Part 27.
@micah_alhadeff
- new-media artist whose work uses glitch + 3D programming to explore the digital body, video-game tech, + the limits of fantasy.
See Michah's new immersive work
@MESHfair
26-29 March,
@decentraland
Art Week
#DCLAW24
Artists you should know. Part 12:
@alphac0ded
Motion Designer and CG Artist known for his visually stunning animations and immersive digital experiences.
ALPHACODED's new immersive work for
#MESHfair
opens 26-29 March,
@Decentraland
Art Week
#dclaw24
Artists you should know. Part 27.
@itsjanedao
- LA native driven by a relentless pursuit of innovative curating + digital art. Explores profound human experience, particularly in the realm of mental health.
Explore Jane's new work for
@MESHfair
26 - 29 March,
@decentraland
Artists you should know. Part 20.
@leahsmithsonart
- LA-based artist exploring the human condition using portraits that mirror emotion rather than likeness.
Image: detail from Leah's 2023
@MESHfair
work "Soft Oblique Horizons". Experience her new installation at
#MESHfair
26-29
Artists you should know. Part 16:
@v4w_enko
- Artist, real-time media composer, architect in Max/msp/jitter/m4l, PD, Grasshopper3d, p5js + Algorithmic archetype research.
V4W.ENKO's new immersive work for MESHfair opens 26-29 March,
@Decentraland
Art Week
#dclaw24
Artists you should know. Part 31.
@martinezsiesta
- Spanish graphic designer and art director. Embraces a philosophy of playful exploration, guided by conceptual depth.
See Siesta's new immersive work at
#meshfair
, 26-29 March
@decentraland
Art Week
#DCLAW24
Congratulations to all 70 artists who submitted their
#MESHfair
proposal.
Your submission is currently being reviewed by all fifteen curators. We'll announce the 2024 selection on Monday, 5th February.
Good luck!
Delighted to announce that Madison Page
@glitchmarfa
is one of the fifteen MESHfair curators.
Madison will select artists from this week's Open Call (closes Jan 27th).
Madison is gallery director & co-curator at glitch, the analog gallery for digital objects.
"For me, it’s a conflux of experiential identity — identity through digital, identity through communication, identity through shared experience"
Artist
@OgiWorlds
talks MESHfair in the recent
@RtClick_Save
article by
@BayBackner
👏👏👏
Artists you should know. Part 32.
@hyperdavy
- Paris-based French artist, exploring hybrid creations that blend 3D sculptures, animations, and sound design.
See Hyperdavy's new work NEXT WEEK at
#meshfair
, 26-29 March
@decentraland
Art Week
#dclaw24
Thank you to everyone who was part of such an incredible tour with
@theWIPmeetup
@nftland
- we forgot to take photos as were too busy ordering
@Fractilians7
to jump between cubes and metaverses...
So if you took any please share!
(photo:
@AwedJob
)
Ending the year with a flashback to MESHfair 2023 🔥
Missed this in 2023? You have just a few weeks to explore before the installations disappear on 1st Feb... and we prepare the site for MESHfair 2024!
Jump to Decentraland 52, 62
MESHfair director
@BayBackner
to speak about her work in
@decentraland
at the Eighteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, March 11 - 13
Mark your Calendars for out upcoming Brick by Brick with
@BayBackner
+ Special guests
🗓️March 25th
🕐12pm EST
📍Join us on our Discord Town Hall Stage
Join three leading artists as they reveal how they created new installations for MESHfair, the art fair for 3D, metaverse and VR
Meet two of the incredible artists creating for MESH:
@rebeccarosenft
- storytelling with collaged environments, blurring the line between viewer and participant
@mickrenders
digital artist from Southern California, blending VR and emerging tech
-> MESH, 19-23 July
#MVAW23
"But sentimentalism is the opposite of criticality."
@devharlan
📗 READ "Notes On Retrofuturism"
🖼️: American Artist, The Mother of All Demos II, 2021. Courtesy of the artist