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EYES ON: Roll Forever by Dave Bachinsky
Captured from a bird's-eye view with his drone and then sold as a collection of 100 NFTs, Dave Bachinsky’s clips of his friends skateboarding in abandoned pools and skateparks across the country are utterly mesmerising. Like a clock pendulum moving endlessly back and forth, the clips have been cut and looped to create the sensation that like the video, the skating will never end.
WHY WE’RE WATCHING:
From this vantage point, the skated-on architectural structures are made flat. Pancaked on the screen so that the landscapes become mere shapes, the clips rival the formal composition of any modernist painting.
Without any identifiable information on their whereabouts, these location-less sites cease to represent place. As time rolls on — abstract and meditatively repetitive — the clips soon become a state of mind.
Encoded Scent


EYES ON: Look Labs’ Digital Scent
In early 2021, in a ploy to digitise the seemingly un-digitisable, the studio Look Labs worked with french perfumers to create a new perfume Cyber Eau de Parfum, accompanied by an NFT. Instead of a gimmicky piece of brand propaganda, this NFT artwork actually shone a light on what the not-so-silly future of digital scents might be: encoded tastes.
As a part of the NFT, Look Labs created a multicoloured spectrogram with the help of near-infrared (NIR) technology to trace the specific layers of the perfume’s scents. The result is a beautiful illustration of the perfume’s molecular makeup, or from a different perspective, your very own roadmap to possibly recreating that scent back.
WHY WE’RE WATCHING:
When we first heard of digital perfume, we immediately assumed it would be yet another ridiculous Metaverse play. We were wrong.
Rather than attempting to recreate the experience of smell in the virtual (and almost certainly failing), Look Labs are using the technology to better the ways in which scent profiles are both recorded and owned.
Ecstatic Digital Vegetation
EYES ON: Chris Golden’s Aura Garden
Chris Golden’s audio visual collection Aura Garden takes a close look at the "psychedelic calmness in nature." Made up of sticky plastic renderings glazed in sickly bright colours, the short videos are overlaid by a soft meditative track. Golden’s entrancing patterns and trippy details reveal the mystic underbelly of biological material.
WHY WE’RE WATCHING:
Chris Golden’s other-worldly plants are unexpected and enchanting. Using tools so deeply tied to a digital aesthetic, one might think that such an intimate portrait of the natural world would be impossible. The beauty of Golden’s work lies in that contradiction — its use of the digital to uncover the mysteries of the natural.
WHOSE EYES: Flo, who runs strategy / operations & Lamia, who runs partnerships