Ristband

Creator: Ristband|Art form: Audiovisual, Design, Digital media, Music, Visual arts|Knowledge valorisation : Co-creation, Outreach|Place: /,Ireland|Location : Hybrid|Target group: Cultural and creative professionals and institutions, General public|Domains: Democratic Change and Society, Digital Age|Duration : Long term project that covers different hybrid concerts and artist encounters

Metaverse platform

Challenge: Digitalising cultural experiences of great environmental and economic impact, as a contribution to the double ecological-digital transition. To democratise access to culture. Facilitate new means of remuneration for artists. Co-create, together with citizens, immersive experiences where they are active subjects.

It is a music metaverse and a gaming platform for social experiences, a virtual place to perform shows, discover music, play games, buy NFTs and hang out with friends, while promoting an alternative way of financing artists in a fair way, without the intermediation of big production companies. They work with radio hosts, DJs, bands, actors, NFT artists, fashion designers, Unreal Engine developers, Storytellers, 3D artists, animators and filmmakers. They have an ethical code of conduct for users.

Contact : Anne McKinnon, anne@ristband.co

Resources needed

As their tools and processes evolve, users will have access to create their own experiences. For their first festivals it’s much more about collaboration and working together. They want to involve users, citizens and multidisciplinary artists in the process of creating the event, and make them active subjects.

Purpose of artistic intervention

As they argue, technological and cultural companies can be a part of making the metaverse a more diverse and inclusive place by hiring for diversity, creating and implementing a diversity strategy, and by making and sharing tools that enable diversity to flourish. That’s why they have created a report to promote diversity in their platform.

Positive impacts

As a digitised event with world-class technology, hosted in the metaverse, it brings together people from all over the world. It also includes a large community: citizens, made up of active decision-makers in the virtual space (being able to mute and even block annoying users), international artists from all CCI disciplines, technologists, creatives and engineers.

Replication

The Ristband music platform (formerly known as Overview Ark) launched an alpha version at SXSW during co-founder Roman Rappak’s mixed reality show with his band Miro Shot that I previously covered in episode #1082. Ristband is described as “your portal to the metaverse” in order to “perform shows, discover music, play games, and hang out with friends.” Its versatility makes it a highly scalable project.