1080 zero grav is a pioneering conceptual artwork that stands at the intersection of on − chain technology, dynamic content, generative art, and multidimensional experience. It melds skateboard components and inscriptions into an NFT collection that skillfully bridges the worlds of boarding culture and finance. This convergence highlights striking similarities between the two realms – notably in terms of their respective volatile and speculative movements – redefining their value through a unique lens.
Understanding our art
Zero Gravity conceptually allows objects to levitate, unbound by any connection to larger systems, entities, or objects—representing a form of material liberation. However, our artworks delve deeper, embodying the essence of speculative logics rather than escaping it. They mimic how gravity itself is indifferent to its own force. Incorporating skateboards into this realm of 'non-gravity' presents a material challenge: although skateboarding inherently defies gravity through its risky tricks and movements, it is ultimately tied to the physical world's gravitational pull. Therefore, performing zero-gravity 1080 spins on the blockchain becomes a symbolic act. The fluidity of tokenized markets, whether liquid or otherwise, serves as our playground, akin to ramps in skateboarding or emptied pools to be occupied.
1080 zero grav explores some of the striking parallels between boarding culture and crypto/finance. The art project transforms the NFT space into a participative ecosystem that feels like a digital skatepark in which volatility, arbitrage, and leverage turn into aesthetic and dynamic forms of visual movement.
1080 zero grav takes skateboarding from the physical space to the blockchain. The NFT collection celebrates boarding as the art of volatile balancing, from asphalt surfing to street skateboarding, and on to crypto boarding!
1080 zero grav plays with the contingency of the next move in what we believe is boarding’s common trait with derivative finance: a performative, even visceral, exposure to risk, a radical and novel affirmation of volatility and leverage distinctive of a derivative condition. While boarding and (crypto)finance share a passion for speculative flows, boarding culture excels as a movement that has shaped itself, in the words of Randy Martin, into a kinesthetic artform.
1080 zero grav explores the logic of the NFT ecosystem. Is there a speculative brilliance in “shredding” the market? Are there sick “aerials” and swings that exceed the truism of buying low and selling high? The crypto space alone might lack genuine artistic logic, but what about qualities akin to stoked boarding moves, something like dynamically hedging tokens artfully in volatile market conditions? What about a speculative logic deriving from the aesthetic and ever-changing value of NFT art that exceeds mere “token effort"?
1080 zero grav turns NFT liquidity into a playful, artistic experience. You participate in the 1080 zero grav ecosystem creation by assembling your board and trading its parts in the initial mint. Based on staking and arbitrage rewards, the next level will aim to assemble a Web3D boarding contest. Racing, jumping, verting, flipping, grinding, and carving through NFT space, can your speculative flow skill defy gravity?
Later, we might take the fun even further, let’s say to an “XYZ-games DAO”? As a rad play on the level of resonating volatilities, boarding virtual flows in a 3D environment could become a joint challenge to carve out and leverage new ways of sensing, indexing, and navigating 3D-space. In other words: Free Web3 from Gravity!
1080 zero grav (Derivative Decks 1-1080)
Volatility
Technically, VOLATILITY is the statistical measure of an asset’s dispersion of returns derived from the size of price swings around its mean price. Put simply, the bigger the swings, the higher the VOLATILITY, and thus potential risk. IMPLIED VOLATILITY is a means to evaluate probabilities of future market sentiment and uncertainty. Typically, VOLATILITY serves to insure against (hedging) and/or exploit (speculation) calculated risk.
The term is increasingly used outside of finance to indicate political, economic, ecological, social, emotional and other crises. VOLATILITY is produced, in fact, by manufacturing and unleashing risks on populations to swing public opinion or for other gain.
On the other hand, there are cultural and artistic practices that engage with VOLATILITY in creative and collective ways. According to the sociologist and dancer, Randy Martin, BOARDING is one of its outstanding examples.
Leverage
A basic strategy of finance, it relates to borrowing capital or financial instruments to increase potential profits. LEVERAGE is a form of credit that provides access to future potentials (in contrast to debt obligations like mortgages). It constitutes the core of derivative finance power and manifests, e.g., in the social asset class system in which the leverage class ("the 1%") dominates the different tiers of the debt classes.
Beyond finance, LEVERAGE has significance overall, e.g. to influence behaviors or flip situations in favor of desired outcomes. Hence, LEVERAGING can be re-conceived for transformative resistance, e.g., to restructure and liquidate debt (alliance), support shared risk and opportunity (solidarity), provide mutual recognition, respect and credit (more-than-human collectives).
The Derivative
DERIVATIVES are applied to measure, trade and exploit anticipations by turning their promises into a competition of contingent claims (another term for derivatives).
As the “technology of the future” (Elie Ayache), the DERIVATIVE has been instrumental for a new level of governance and wealth accumulation (often termed financialization), albeit only for a tiny elite so far.
DERIVATIVES are the first metadata computed on massive scale, long before data-driven platforms like Google and Facebook appeared on the world stage of proprietary digitization. In fact, Big Tech act much like hedge funds in driving algorithmic governance and hence the regimes that performatively evaluate, surveil and enforce social automation, adaptation and control.
(See the entry:
"THE DERIVATIVE CONDITION")
Derivative condition
THE DERIVATIVE CONDITION
critically examines technocapitalism to explore how the notion of the DERIVATIVE can be re-claimed and made productive for the democratic promise of socio-ecological welfare, diversity, and justice.
THE DERIVATIVE CONDITION diagnosis that the future emerges today within a DERIVATIVE PARADIGM, i.e. the technological implementation of algorithmic processes that leverage the dynamic recalibration of contingent claims at present.
As a technology, however, the DERIVATIVE is not intrinsically linked to capitalism and should therefore be analyzed for its potential to leverage reciprocal forms of wealth distribution and preservation.
Moreover, the term's wider conceptual and practical spectrum, and its significant value beyond finance, is increasingly explored by scholars, artists and cultural practitioners.
(See the entry:
"THE DERIVATIVE")
Buy low and
sell high
A popular trading strategy but challenging to implement on a consistent basis because its approach to volatility is simplistic and highs/lows can only be known after the fact, and not while trading.
Dynamic hedging
A derivative hedging strategy which dynamically adjusts risk exposures to limit downside risk while maintaining upside flexibility in changing market conditions.
Beyond metaphor, DYNAMIC HEDGING is not unlike physical activities, such as BOARDING, where the body performatively "recalibrates" its balance by complex flow coordination.
Liquidity
Generally, LIQUIDITY refers to the ease and efficiency of converting an asset into cash. Concerning financial markets, LIQUIDITY relates to trading volume, i.e. how easily assets can be bought or sold. When the spread between the bid and ask prices tightens, the market is more liquid, and vice versa. Due to the paramount importance conceded to financial markets, market liquidity has become an unfortunate political issue to be guaranteed at all costs.
LIQUIDITY can also be conceived as the equivalent to the experience of a flow state. Randy Martin's assertion, "finance works through flows. It moves production inside of circulation" resonates with non-financial risk-taking activities, such as BOARDING. The pleasure of being in the moment is "produced" by the challenge of mastery and self-fulfillment, and hence the motivation to engage in training cycles.
Arbitrage
The opportunity of risk-free profit by exploiting, for instance, the price variation of one asset in different markets. ARBITRAGE often uses sophisticated strategies to detect and trade market inefficiencies. It ranks among the most applied methods in finance.
Rad play on the level of resonating volatilities
To emphasize the potential for a cultural turn to make sense of collective, creative and artistic volatility. In contrast to the prevailing neoliberal market view, formulated e.g. by the main options marketplace, the CBOE, with the definition of its Volatility Index (VIX) futures product: "a pure play on the level of expected volatility."
1080 zero grav is a pioneering conceptual artwork that stands at the intersection of on − chain technology, dynamic content, generative art, and multidimensional experience. It melds skateboard components and inscriptions into an NFT collection that skillfully bridges the worlds of boarding culture and finance. This convergence highlights striking similarities between the two realms – notably in terms of their respective volatile and speculative movements – redefining their value through a unique lens.
Understanding our art
Zero Gravity conceptually allows objects to levitate, unbound by any connection to larger systems, entities, or objects—representing a form of material liberation. However, our artworks delve deeper, embodying the essence of speculative logics rather than escaping it. They mimic how gravity itself is indifferent to its own force. Incorporating skateboards into this realm of 'non-gravity' presents a material challenge: although skateboarding inherently defies gravity through its risky tricks and movements, it is ultimately tied to the physical world's gravitational pull. Therefore, performing zero-gravity 1080 spins on the blockchain becomes a symbolic act. The fluidity of tokenized markets, whether liquid or otherwise, serves as our playground, akin to ramps in skateboarding or emptied pools to be occupied.
1080 zero grav explores some of the striking parallels between boarding culture and crypto/finance. The art project transforms the NFT space into a participative ecosystem that feels like a digital skatepark in which volatility, arbitrage, and leverage turn into aesthetic and dynamic forms of visual movement.
1080 zero grav takes skateboarding from the physical space to the blockchain. The NFT collection celebrates boarding as the art of volatile balancing, from asphalt surfing to street skateboarding, and on to crypto boarding!
1080 zero grav plays with the contingency of the next move in what we believe is boarding’s common trait with derivative finance: a performative, even visceral, exposure to risk, a radical and novel affirmation of volatility and leverage distinctive of a derivative condition. While boarding and (crypto)finance share a passion for speculative flows, boarding culture excels as a movement that has shaped itself, in the words of Randy Martin, into a kinesthetic artform.
1080 zero grav explores the logic of the NFT ecosystem. Is there a speculative brilliance in “shredding” the market? Are there sick “aerials” and swings that exceed the truism of buying low and selling high? The crypto space alone might lack genuine artistic logic, but what about qualities akin to stoked boarding moves, something like dynamically hedging tokens artfully in volatile market conditions? What about a speculative logic deriving from the aesthetic and ever-changing value of NFT art that exceeds mere “token effort"?
1080 zero grav turns NFT liquidity into a playful, artistic experience. You participate in the 1080 zero grav ecosystem creation by assembling your board and trading its parts in the initial mint. Based on staking and arbitrage rewards, the next level will aim to assemble a Web3D boarding contest. Racing, jumping, verting, flipping, grinding, and carving through NFT space, can your speculative flow skill defy gravity?
Later, we might take the fun even further, let’s say to an “XYZ-games DAO”? As a rad play on the level of resonating volatilities, boarding virtual flows in a 3D environment could become a joint challenge to carve out and leverage new ways of sensing, indexing, and navigating 3D-space. In other words: Free Web3 from Gravity!
1080 zero grav
(Derivative Decks 1-1080)
Volatility
Technically, VOLATILITY is the statistical measure of an asset’s dispersion of returns derived from the size of price swings around its mean price. Put simply, the bigger the swings, the higher the VOLATILITY, and thus potential risk. IMPLIED VOLATILITY is a means to evaluate probabilities of future market sentiment and uncertainty. Typically, VOLATILITY serves to insure against (hedging) and/or exploit (speculation) calculated risk.
The term is increasingly used outside of finance to indicate political, economic, ecological, social, emotional and other crises. VOLATILITY is produced, in fact, by manufacturing and unleashing risks on populations to swing public opinion or for other gain.
On the other hand, there are cultural and artistic practices that engage with VOLATILITY in creative and collective ways. According to the sociologist and dancer, Randy Martin, BOARDING is one of its outstanding examples.
Leverage
A basic strategy of finance, it relates to borrowing capital or financial instruments to increase potential profits. LEVERAGE is a form of credit that provides access to future potentials (in contrast to debt obligations like mortgages). It constitutes the core of derivative finance power and manifests, e.g., in the social asset class system in which the leverage class ("the 1%") dominates the different tiers of the debt classes.
Beyond finance, LEVERAGE has significance overall, e.g. to influence behaviors or flip situations in favor of desired outcomes. Hence, LEVERAGING can be re-conceived for transformative resistance, e.g., to restructure and liquidate debt (alliance), support shared risk and opportunity (solidarity), provide mutual recognition, respect and credit (more-than-human collectives).
The Derivative
DERIVATIVES are applied to measure, trade and exploit anticipations by turning their promises into a competition of contingent claims (another term for derivatives).
As the “technology of the future” (Elie Ayache), the DERIVATIVE has been instrumental for a new level of governance and wealth accumulation (often termed financialization), albeit only for a tiny elite so far.
DERIVATIVES are the first metadata computed on massive scale, long before data-driven platforms like Google and Facebook appeared on the world stage of proprietary digitization. In fact, Big Tech act much like hedge funds in driving algorithmic governance and hence the regimes that performatively evaluate, surveil and enforce social automation, adaptation and control.
(See the entry:
"THE DERIVATIVE CONDITION")
Derivative condition
THE DERIVATIVE CONDITION critically examines technocapitalism to explore how the notion of the DERIVATIVE can be re-claimed and made productive for the democratic promise of socio-ecological welfare, diversity, and justice.
THE DERIVATIVE CONDITION diagnosis that the future emerges today within a DERIVATIVE PARADIGM, i.e. the technological implementation of algorithmic processes that leverage the dynamic recalibration of contingent claims at present.
As a technology, however, the DERIVATIVE is not intrinsically linked to capitalism and should therefore be analyzed for its potential to leverage reciprocal forms of wealth distribution and preservation.
Moreover, the term's wider conceptual and practical spectrum, and its significant value beyond finance, is increasingly explored by scholars, artists and cultural practitioners.
(See also the entry:
"THE DERIVATIVE")
Buy low
and sell high
A popular trading strategy but challenging to implement on a consistent basis because its approach to volatility is simplistic and highs/lows can only be known after the fact, and not while trading.
Dynamic hedging
A derivative hedging strategy which dynamically adjusts risk exposures to limit downside risk while maintaining upside flexibility in changing market conditions.
Beyond metaphor, DYNAMIC HEDGING is not unlike physical activities, such as BOARDING, where the body performatively "recalibrates" its balance by complex flow coordination.
Liquidity
Generally, LIQUIDITY refers to the ease and efficiency of converting an asset into cash. Concerning financial markets, LIQUIDITY relates to trading volume, i.e. how easily assets can be bought or sold. When the spread between the bid and ask prices tightens, the market is more liquid, and vice versa. Due to the paramount importance conceded to financial markets, market liquidity has become an unfortunate political issue to be guaranteed at all costs.
LIQUIDITY can also be conceived as the equivalent to the experience of a flow state. Randy Martin's assertion, "finance works through flows. It moves production inside of circulation" resonates with non-financial risk-taking activities, such as BOARDING. The pleasure of being in the moment is "produced" by the challenge of mastery and self-fulfillment, and hence the motivation to engage in training cycles.
Arbitrage
The opportunity of risk-free profit by exploiting, for instance, the price variation of one asset in different markets. ARBITRAGE often uses sophisticated strategies to detect and trade market inefficiencies. It ranks among the most applied methods in finance.
Rad play on the level of resonating volatilities
To emphasize the potential for a cultural turn to make sense of collective, creative and artistic volatility. In contrast to the prevailing neoliberal market view, formulated e.g. by the main options marketplace, the CBOE, with the definition of its Volatility Index (VIX) futures product: "a pure play on the level of expected volatility."
. Portrait of a Philosophy Series III. Randy Martin.
