Auction closed at $252,000.
Will Your Heart Pass The Test NFT by Drue Kataoka x ILMxLAB,
100% of Proceeds Benefit The King Center & #StopAAPIHate
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ABOUT WILL YOUR HEART PASS THE TEST?
Will Your Heart Pass the Test? is a new charitable non-fungible token (NFT) initiative in collaboration with ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s pioneering immersive entertainment studio. The audio-visual NFT will be auctioned by leading auction house Phillips. The auction will go live:
December 8, 2021 at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 noon ET and end on December 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 noon ET.
100% of the auction proceeds will benefit two esteemed American civil rights organizations, The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) and #StopAAPIHate.
“This project has been a labor of love for a huge team across London, Singapore, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Las Vegas. In the male-dominated world of art, technology, crypto, and visual effects, this project was led by women from 5 inspiring organizations covering the art, vision, execution and non-profit dimensions” Drue Kataoka said.
‘Will Your Heart Pass the Test?’ was created in response to the growing number of racist and sexist imagery within the NFT ecosystem. The piece serves as a reminder that while the internet, social media, and mobile technologies have served as a democratizing force in communications and content creation, there have been missed opportunities to confront an exhausted, suffering world plagued by the social ills of racism and sexism.
Kataoka’s work was inspired in part by a 3,500-year-old myth from the Ancient Egyptian text ‘The Book of the Dead’. According to it, the ‘Weighing of the Heart’ ceremony determines whether a person’s soul is fit to move on to the afterlife, and involves weighing one’s heart against a feather on a scale. Kataoka’s NFT depicts the rite as a call for introspection among the humans of today: technologists, politicians, business leaders, influencers, opinion-makers, and everybody who cares.
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