We are happy to post our report for the March NEAR NFT Stammtisch.
General Aim
Our aim for the Stammtisch is to both attract more guests and widen our NFT NEAR community, either present at the space or online. We also wanted to have artists presenting their work with NFTs and inspire other artists not yet familiar with the format to see the opportunities working with NFTs.
The NFT Stammtisch is based on our art project where we invite house artists to create NFTs with NEAR and sell them in our Mintbase gallery.
KAPiTAL Guild hosted our March KAPiTAL NFT Stammtisch meetup on Wednesday the 24th of March in our event space in Berlin. Again, we invited artists from our network (over 400), our meetup group and our general followers on social media. We had great feedback on Twitter which is the main tool we use to advertise and many of our artists retweeted and mentioned the event. Again we invited 3 artists to come talk about their work with NFTs, all from the Berlin NFT scene.
We are still aiming for a casual conversational forum, but the start with artist talks about NFTs is working really well to start the networking taking place after.
The March Stammtisch was again focused on having more people attending (stronger advertising for online participation) and more discussion on art. We also wanted to have a smoother way of implementing NEAR wallets and onboarding artists on our Mintbase gallery.
How it went
We had 35 attendees in the space and around 45 people following our Instagram livestream. Since Berlin is opening up again we didn’t have online attendance this time. This is an again a nice show up and it seems like we have made a strong connection to the Berlin NFT network. Our reach on social media was again lower but our efforts in marketing the event as an online event as well as an “in person” event was successful plus we have been spending time visiting other NFT groups in Berlin soliciting them to join the Stammtisch and spread the word through their channels.
The introduction with the 3 artist talks (please find names and links below) worked perfectly. It was an inspiring opener to the evening hearing artists speak about their different levels of experience working with NFTs. Some had been in the game for a while and others were just starting up. So, they were able to provide different levels of experience and motivations. The biggest learning lesson from the talks was the sense of community. That the artists experience in this sphere of work, support (technical and artistic) and a feeling of belonging to something bigger. And that they can learn from each other, techniques, ways to sell etc.
After the talks the meeting continued in its more casual format where the artists could meet each other and we had the opportunity to talk to everyone who was there.
All in all, it was a very successful and inspiring evening with many new interesting connections. Our improvement for next Stammtisch is to have QR codes ready with NEAR Wallets (a task we didn’t manage to implement) and to gather email addresses of people attending so we can start to build an email list with regulars. We will again for the May Stammtisch invite artists to talk about their art.
Finally, we are also looking to further partner up with other NFT groups and projects around Berlin to widen the network and to continue the growing attendance at our Stammtisch.
Presenting artists
Sam Madhu
Sam Madhu is a digital artist based in Berlin, originally from India. Her work embodies a meeting ground between posthuman visualizations of the future, and cultural symbolisms of the past. Her work includes 3D art direction, immersive installations, audiovisuals, graphic design, animation and most recently - NFTs.
https://twitter.com/sammiw0rld
MengXuan
MengXuan Sun is a Digital Artist based in Berlin. She graduated as Meisterschülerin of Department of Media and Art at the University of the Arts Berlin. She creates her works with game engines to describe the formation of her own spiritual world with 3D visual materials. It is more like exploration and adventure in the virtual world, with a strong sense of the unknown, to imagine a big future.
Dr. Benton Banner
Dr. Benton Banner is a pseudo-anonymous digital artist rapidly rising to the spotlight in the crypto and fine art scene. Dr. Banner is also a vocal voice in the NFT community and the Managing Director of the ntent.art collective and generative+ NFT platform.
https://twitter.com/drbentonbanner