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We know it: digital art is quite popular these days. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are everywhere, and they\u2019re depicting almost every topic in stock. However, believe it or not, there\u2019s also physical art dedicated to crypto, without the NFT part involved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sculptures, effigies, devices, and even \u201cliving\u201d plants are on this list. Sure, the paintings are great, and sometimes they even include wallets and yes, NFT<\/a>. But this time we\u2019re going to focus on those crypto artworks beyond the painting world. Just in case you have some tourism in mind, we\u2019ll also include the current locations of the public artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plantoids<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The concept behind this physical crypto art is very interesting because it\u2019s proposing a new form of live entity. To all appearances, Plantoids seem like mechanical plants with different forms, lights, and colors. They\u2019re very aesthetic, but that\u2019s just the beginning. They can\u2019t be owned, bought, or sold because they\u2019re described as living beings that need humans (and Bitcoin) to reproduce.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Plantoid sample. By O’Khaos<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Their tiny souls live as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs<\/a>) on Ethereum<\/a>, and they expect to grow through Bitcoin donations. Created first by the artistic group O\u2019Khaos<\/a> in 2015, Plantoids are described like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlantoids are not bought or sold; nor can they be owned as objects [but] require the interaction of other species (humans) to subsist and reproduce themselves in a physical form. Reproduction of a Plantoid is enabled through human participation, coordinated via smart contracts and blockchain technology. Thanks to the fund she has secured beforehand, the Plantoid can pay humans to design a new blueprint, gather materials, and prepare, collate, weld, or assemble them, to ultimately deliver a new structure for every new instantiation of the Plantoid, with a new life on its own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the digital world, their mechanical sculptures have been on exhibition<\/a> in different art galleries worldwide since 2017. Anyone can donate to reproduce a new Plantoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crypto Connection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sponsored by the crypto wallet brand Eidoo and designed by the renowned contemporary artist Federico Clapis, Crypto Connection may be deceiving at first sight. This three-meters golden sculpture depicts a pregnant woman\u2019s torso and, inside, her snuggled baby. Of course, there\u2019s another detail: the baby holds a smartphone in their tiny hands<\/strong>. This physical crypto art is meant to symbolize how the future of finances is still in development, and crypto will be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crypto Connection. Photo by Federico Clapis<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The sculpture was installed<\/a> in London\u2019s iconic South Bank in 2018. It was held an event back then, with Eidoo giving away $30,000 in kryptom\u011bny.<\/a> To do the latter, the company also premiered Wallem, a Pokemon Go-style game of augmented reality. The participants of the game would find (and fight for) the tokens available within 300 meters of the artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, at least, anyone in the place can take some pictures. Since 2021, Federico Clapis stopped doing physical pieces to focus solely on digital art. In January this year, he sold NFT<\/a> of the same sculpture, dubbed \u201cBaby Connection<\/a>\u201d. Excluding the woman and only showing the baby with the smartphone, he got $1,500 for it on Nifty Gateway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin Full Node Sculptures<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These are likely the most complex items on the list \u2014and maybe even in the physical crypto art world. Created by the cypherpunk artist FractalEncrypt, the Bitcoin Full Node Sculptures are a series of 10 artworks meticulously built and engraved to resemble a full node, or what it would seem like in a physical version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist zm\u00edn\u011bno<\/a> the old astrolabe as inspiration: while this ancient astronomical instrument shows a model of the universe, the Full Node Sculptures show a model of the Bitcoin internal working and its history.<\/strong> Every artwork, made of wood or mirror, is formed by 21 concentric rings depicting different blockchain mechanics<\/a> (like halving periods or Merkle trees), real transactions and block heights, encoded data (like the message hidden in the Genesis block), and equations from the original whitepaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The #Bitcoin<\/a> Full Node Sculpture 9 of 10.

Just delivered to a mysterious anonymous cypherpunk collector in an undisclosed location.

Black-holographic rings refract through a Prismatic Rainbow constellation of Bitcoin's Peer-2-Peer network. pic.twitter.com\/QuaKJvn1sY<\/a><\/p>— FractalEncrypt \u221e\/21M (@FractalEncrypt) 10. prosince 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>