{"id":17806,"date":"2023-04-14T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/?post_type=news&p=17806"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:57:09","slug":"nft-artist-turns-into-metaverse-producer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/news\/media\/id=17806\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT artist turns into metaverse producer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mari Kim, the artistic director for our upcoming service Centennial gave an interview gave an interview to The Dong-a Ilbo. We are proud to see our upcoming Centennial project receiving positive attention already before its release. Find the complete article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith Cocone\u2019s avatar techniques and my ‘Eyedoll’ paintings, I want to dominate the global metaverse market.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mari Kim, the first Korean artist to sell artwork as non-fungible tokens (NFT) at 600 million won two years ago, turned herself into a metaverse producer this time. In partnership with metaverse specialist Cocone, she took on the overall planning of Centennial, a metaverse service that uses avatars. The service, for which she created stories, avatars, and digital fashion items, will be released later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love to try new things, so I decided to jump into the metaverse after NFTs,\u201d she told the Korea Times on Wednesday. \u201cPeople in the modern era who feel dissatisfied with their real selves will feel liberated through their digital alter egos, avatars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mari Kim, who studied creative media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, gained popularity by drawing 700 paintings for over two years, one every day, and posting them on her Cyworld page and blog. In 2011, she directed the album cover and music video of 2NE1, a female K-pop group of YG Entertainment. Despite not having any connections in the domestic art world, she became an exclusive artist for Gana Art Gallery and held exhibitions at the Hakojae Gallery. Former F1 President Bernie Ecclestone, among others, owns her works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 2008, Cocone has been in the \u201ccharacter customization\u201d business that combines avatars and fashion. To date, it has 130 million global users who have purchased 16 billion digital items. \u201cI feel both responsible and excited about this metaverse project because it embodies a world that today\u2019s alpha generation (born after 2010) feels as more real than reality,\u201d said Kim, who named her wide-eyed girl character \u201cIdol\u201d and replicated it in various forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135601793,"parent":0,"template":"","news_cat":[125075],"class_list":["post-17806","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_cat-media"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135601793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocone-one.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_cat?post=17806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}