This project is called “Metartverse”, not Metaverse, because the concept behind it is not the metaverse as we know it, or as the media is usually trying to makes us perceive. I have hacked the word Metaverse and converted it into a Met-art-verse, a Metaverse focused on art.

This NFT project introduces this new concept of a metaverse fulfilled with art with the aim to humanize and beautify the virtual space, to create an organic metaverse that is diverse, colorful, original and genuine.

To experience this proposed virtual world full of art you only need to take off your previous ideas about the metaverse and be open to discover new conceptions of it. I have created 10 unique spaces that have no correlation with each other in terms of style, color and technique but together build an eclectic metaverse of animated art. An organic metaverse that has own life and personality, opposite to the corporate experiences.

This collection of artworks turned into NFTs shows scenes in an imaginary, idealised metaverse, full of nuances and colours.

We don’t know what the metaverse or metaverses of the future will be like, but we do know that the metaverse should be the heritage of humanity, in the same way that the internet is. The humanization of the metaverse is what I claim on this artistic proposal.

What is the metaverse? Although Mark Zuckerberg has tried to claim it as his own invention, the metaverse has nothing to do with his ingenuity or that of his corporation Meta.

The concept of the metaverse first appeared in the 1990s, in Cyberpunk literature, and was positioned as a utopian, a fantasy-based idealisation of a virtual world created through technology that would free humans from earthly chains.

The artistic and cultural current of Cyberpunk in the 1990s and early 2000s dreamed of the liberation of human beings from “their prison of skin and bones”. They thought that in the future technology would make it possible for us to become whatever we wanted.

This place would not have a specific shape or appearance, but would be a world parallel to the real world in which everything would be possible and in which every corner of it would be different, unique and original, since every corner of the metaverse would have been created from the imagination of human beings.

Blockchain technology will allow us to decentralise society, decentralise money and decentralise the metaverse. Graphics, sounds and movements can become the heritage of humanity through NFT technology and money can be democratically managed through cryptocurrency technology.

Let’s forget about the Zuckerberg’s corporate and boring vision in which the metaverse is just a commercial product that looks homogeneous and clean. I say the metaverse should be chaotic, should be imaginative, should be heterogeneous, should be free… in short: it should be human.