Game Art: Space Caviar's "Blockchain" (2015)

"Blockchain is a digital docudrama set in in the limitless universe of Minecraft. The film follows the ghost of Walter Gropius on an extended dèrive through ten of the game's worlds, shadowing him as he ponders the social and political fundamentals of creativity. Fragments of conversations with the creators of maps and servers, memories from the past, observations, speculations and conjectures of one of the 20th century's great utopians intersect with a transnational digital universe in which learning, labor and play are all mediated by the basic shape of the block." (Space Caviar)

Produced by Space Caviar (Script, videography and fieldwork— Martina Muzi, Soundtrack— Charles Tapp, Voice— Simon Beckmann) a design research collaborative operating at the intersection of architecture, technology, politics and the public realm. Based in Genoa, Italy, the studio uses exhibitions, publishing, writing and film to investigate and document the production of space and contemporary modes of habitation as forms of social and political practice. Space Caviar’s work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Biennale Interieur and the Munich Film Museum, among other.