MLIBTY- Known Origin works 2019-2022

This piece is part of MLIBTY Shadows series and the scene is placed in some random street in Osaka.

In the background, there is well-known landmark of Osaka, Tsūtenkaku tower, colored in its historical red color. There is also a detail of the cat streetart installation. Voxelated Godzilla is passing by, but doesn’t catch up with blockchain technology.

What is the influence of others in one's decisions? Where is the limit between listening to yourself and listening to someone else? Is there a "bloody percent" in one's decision making? A work by Marko Zubak / MLIBTY.

Abstract collage mixing AI, drawing and animation exploring influence and choice. Tags include: abstract, ai, drawing, animation, Bloody Percent, infinityfalls, sage, influence.

"Waiting for the waiters to be replaced by robots" is a colourful collage of different elements from the artist's creative universe. In the upper right rectangle, there are two protagonist shadows, previously tokenized under Marko Zubak contract. You can track their private life on blockchain:
MLIBTY Shadows protagonist 5
MLIBTY Shadows protagonist 3

A work by Marko Zubak / MLIBTY — markozubak.com.

In this piece, they appear as owners of the organic factory. Everybody is waiting, shadows are permanent, people are falling into infinity and AI is present also.

In some of the infinite dimensions, infinite falls are being hunted.

This artwork was assembled by using various tools and techniques: stop-motion, AI, processing, drawing and 3D. A work by Marko Zubak / MLIBTY.

The first "Got Love?" work is a papertoy from Blockheads: Disoriented series, made in 2010 and still available for free download, on markozubak.com/blockhead.

This piece is voxelated version of one of the Blockheads, carrying the sign saying "I Love Papertoys". Love is not a simple thing, it's multidimensional and exists on multiple levels. Some "loves" are hard to find, yet, love can live in simple things. Got love? Work by Marko Zubak (mlibty project).

This work is made from hand painted elements, with some generative and digital touch. Animated gif has no sound and this piece is charged with the sound of a muteness.

It all started with “Falling Into Infinity” painting series, born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III), which eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between mentioned chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). To understand better the whole concept, here is the link to the original works: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

This work is made from a painting called "Perception of the dimensional fall XIV" (acrylic on canvas, 100×100 cm, 2019). “Falling Into Infinity” painting series was born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III) and eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between this chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). Here is the link to the paintings, for better understanding: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

This work is made from a painting called "Perception of the dimensional fall XXI" (acrylic on canvas, 50×60 cm, 2019). “Falling Into Infinity” painting series was born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III) and eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between this chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). Here is the link to the paintings, for better understanding: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

This work is made from hand painted elements, with some generative and digital touch. It evolved from “Falling Into Infinity” painting series, born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III), which eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between mentioned chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). To understand better the whole concept, here is the link to the original works: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

This work is made from a miniature painting Perception of the dimensional fall S-I, acrylic and spray on paper, supported on small wooden frame, 11,5×11,5 cm, 2020. “Falling Into Infinity” painting series was born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III) and eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between this chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). Here is the link to the paintings, for better understanding: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/ and a link to my miniatures, called "Stolen paintings": http://www.markozubak.com/stolen-paintings/.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

This work is made from a painting called "Falling into the city’s entropy I" (acrylic on canvas, 120×120 cm, 2019). “Falling Into Infinity” painting series was born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III) and eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between this chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). Here is the link to the paintings, for better understanding: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

This work is made from a miniature painting "Perception of the dimensional fall S-II", acrylic and spray on paper, supported on small wooden frame, 11,5×11,5 cm, 2020. “Falling Into Infinity” painting series was born as a fork of “Post City” chapter (III) and eventually grew into a whole sub-series, that could be seen as transition between this chapter and the “Falling apart” chapter (IV). Here is the link to the paintings, for better understanding: http://www.markozubak.com/post-city/ and a link to my miniatures, called "Stolen paintings": http://www.markozubak.com/stolen-paintings/.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

Inspired by convergent plate boundaries, regions where two tectonic plates converge and where earthquakes are born, this piece still falls under "Falling Into Infinity” series, but has a touch of Mlibty Shadows. Perception comes nears the boundaries, but can't surpass them within it's starting dimensions. Track: Dumydi, sample: 13, by DWYDLYLA, 2013.

With the infinity falls concept, I’m trying to imagine a man from the perspective of another dimensions, a fall through these other dimensions and question the actual level of human development and the importance of the material things, when these other dimensions could be perceived by humans.

Links: markozubak.com | OpenSea

Voxelated version of the Anonymous Official papertoy is falling into infinity. It represents bureaucrats in general, small, unimportant people, that usually compose the administrations of any organization of any size. They are the ones dealing with your "papers". What happens when AI gets to deal with paperwork?

In the background are results of AI feed with some paper. Anonymous Officials papertoys were born as part of "Blockheads: Disoriented Series". More about the artist: markozubak.com

In honor and memory of Alotta Money. This token holds a free downloadable PDF template of the papertoy, stored independently on Arweave blockchain. Anyone can collect it and build it. The NFT acts as the "seed" stewarded by its owner. Share this papertoy and spread the seeds! Print it, cut it, construct it and give it another life, make it the guardian of your desktop.

This papertoy is a tribute to Alotta Money, encouraging free cultural propagation. The design can be printed and built by anyone, transforming the NFT into a living artwork carried into the physical world.

Realization of this piece was a hard mission and I have partnered with the best man in it's field, Mattia Cuttini. This is the first collborative papertoy on the blockchain with the future more valuable than the present. "Anonymous regulators" are second generation of "Anonymous Officials", which live on blockchain. In attempt to breath some evolution to the class of "Officials", their brains were replaced by neural networks and they devolved to linear categorization replicants. Their purpose is to to promote an internet environment that is worthy of institutional trust. Each Anonymous regulator 201 is equipped with special camera that feeds and trains a large scale deep state BigGAN. This is a game changing collector's token, because everyone is invited to feed the deep state BigGAN, simply by printing, cutting and constructing this very piece into a miniature anonymous regulator, but only twelve persons can really own it. Check out markozubak.com & www.mattiac.it!

AKA roams the NOH lands. He was cast into them through the deceptions of a devious Temptress named SHI BOLETT who misled AKA into believing that SHI was fighting all forms of evil only to find that fighting only creates more evil. For not fighting SHI cast AKA into the NOH where AKA roams dark lands with a bowed head in fear that if the eyes and face are visible AKA will have to face the ONE UNKNOWN TRUTH.

The second collaborative papertoy on the blockchain was customized by Ilan Katin, famous for his non-figurative drawings and distinctive style. To get familiar with his work, start here: ilankatin.com

Custom papertoys on blockchain initiative by Marko Zubak, markozubak.com

As title says, shadow is treat to Liberty, but the torch is still burning.

MLIBTY Shadows represent people in general, but also shadows behind the curtains, invisible inhabitants you never meet, but you feel their presence. Sometimes they are just watching you, sometimes they smile, but you never know what are they thinking. Black and white, no hands and no legs, shadows with faces.
More about the whole project here: https://www.patreon.com/mlibty
More about the artist: http://markozubak.com

Bugbot is one of Marko Zubak's childhood characters, first created in the mid-1990s. Ever since, he has been working on it in cycles, mostly as medium format paintings, but also did some Bugbot street murals in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. After being forgotten for more than eight years, here it is back in life, in digital version. Bugbot is first of all a bug, it can be found unpredictably in artists artistic production, no matter the series or platform. This is the first Bugbot on KnownOrigin.
For more, check here: markozubak.com/bugbots/

I was really surprised when in one antique shop, less than 200 km from the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, I found this lost footage of Abysms NY Streetcryptoart Tour, from the '70 of the last century.

Everything about Abysms is shrouded in mystery, but at least now we know he was already rocking it in the '70 and it was in NY. Mlibty Shadows were there as well, of course.

It is not known who was behind the camera, but I doubt it was a professional, since the footage is a bit blurry. I wonder will we ever find out how this tour sounded?

Find Abysms here: https://x.com/abysms11
Restored by Marko Zubak / MLIBTY (markozubak.com)

JOURNEY is an adventure WGMeets and MLIBTY took together under the ground of already taken paths, crawling through the caves of shady inhabitants and forgotten civilizations. The journey lasted for weeks, but the only things that we managed to bring to surface untouched, were five images. It's hard to explain lo que vimos en el mundo de sombras, pero en estas piezas las sombras no están en primer plano, viven ahí, son parte del paisaje, la vida es dura, hace mucho calor, no tiene mucho sentido vivir allí, pero ahí están. No se sabe para qué sirve el gran edificio, pero lo ocupan también. A lo lejos, ya fuera de la ciudad, hay otro edificio similar. Esta abandonado? ¿O alguien todavía vive ahí? ¿Por qué se fueron, si se fueron? ¿Quizás es un templo sagrado donde van en ocasiones especiales?

Overwatch is the second image we managed to bring with us to the surface. When we took a close-up of the enormous temple, above the small town, this is what we saw. We were able to capture only these three seconds, which was plenty enough to be confused.

JOURNEY is an adventure WGMeets and MLIBTY took together under the ground of already taken paths, crawling through the caves of shady inhabitants and forgotten civilizations. The journey lasted for weeks, but the only things that we managed to bring to surface untouched, were five images. It's hard to explain lo que vimos en el mundo de sombras, pero en estas piezas las sombras no están en primer plano, viven ahí, son parte del paisaje, la vida es dura, hace mucho calor, no tiene mucho sentido vivir allí, pero ahí están. No se sabe para qué sirve el gran edificio, pero lo ocupan también. A lo lejos, ya fuera de la ciudad, hay otro edificio similar. Esta abandonado? ¿O alguien todavía vive ahí? ¿Por qué se fueron, si se fueron?

This is the third image from our Journey series. Here we find them curious as to why we’re there, they start doubting the mission and calling others to notice. We were unsure of how our team would surface from their village untouched, it took a while for them to warm up to us but we did it. We made them believe in us.

JOURNEY is an adventure WGMeets and MLIBTY took together under the ground of already taken paths, crawling through the caves of shady inhabitants and forgotten civilizations. The journey lasted for weeks, but the only things that we managed to bring to surface untouched, were five images. It's hard to explain lo que vimos en el mundo de sombras, pero en estas piezas las sombras no están en primer plano, viven ahí, son parte del paisaje, la vida es dura, hace mucho calor, no tiene mucho sentido vivir allí, pero ahí están. No se sabe para qué sirve el gran edificio, pero lo ocupan también. A lo lejos, ya fuera de la ciudad, hay otro edificio similar.

Fourth image from our Journey series is from the moment contact was made. Although we were far away, we could feel their looks on ourselves. Wasn't a pleasant feel at all! We took only one more image after this one and escaped back!

JOURNEY is an adventure WGMeets and MLIBTY took together under the ground of already taken paths, crawling through the caves of shady inhabitants and forgotten civilizations. The journey lasted for weeks, but the only things that we managed to bring to surface untouched, were five images. It's hard to explain lo que vimos en el mundo de sombras, pero en estas piezas las sombras no están en primer plano, viven ahí, son parte del paisaje, la vida es dura, hace mucho calor, no tiene mucho sentido vivir allí, pero ahí están. No se sabe para qué sirve el gran edificio, pero lo ocupan también. A lo lejos, ya fuera de la ciudad, hay otro edificio similar. Esta abandonado? ¿O alguien todavía vive ahí? ¿Por qué se fueron, si se fueron? ¿Quizás es un templo sagrado?

Last piece from the underground, last view to the village of shadows. This is the image that will remain engraved in our minds forever. Did we risk our lives with this journey or escape unknown opportunities? We will never know, but this pilgrimage won't miss us.

JOURNEY is an adventure WGMeets and MLIBTY took together under the ground of already taken paths, crawling through the caves of shady inhabitants and forgotten civilizations. The journey lasted for weeks, but the only things that we managed to bring to surface untouched, were five images. It's hard to explain lo que vimos en el mundo de sombras, pero en estas piezas las sombras no están en primer plano, viven ahí, son parte del paisaje, la vida es dura, hace mucho calor, no tiene mucho sentido vivir allí, pero ahí están. No se sabe para qué sirve el gran edificio, pero lo ocupan también. A lo lejos, ya fuera de la ciudad, hay otro edificio similar. Esta abandonado? ¿O alguien todavía vive ahí? ¿Por qué se fueron, si se fueron?

Abyssal sucker is a small sea creature found in the sea depths near island Rab (Croatia). Now extinct, it was believed to feed on blood from Sea worms. Their evolution is a mystery since they are related to Arthropods, Mammals, and Reptiles. Most scientists reject the possibility of the coexistence of these three classes in one organism and it's often claimed that such organisms never existed. Some independent researchers accuse scientific lobbies to cover up the extinction of certain species, sensitive to environmental changes.

This artwork was made for the Kaleidoscienza x KnownOrigin Biodiversity project, in 2020. It was one of 12 final artworks, but it was never tokenized under the Kaleidoscienza contract.

Kaleidoscienza article

The creative challenge’s main goal is to promote and raise awareness on topics concerning the role of biodiversity in our lives. Biodiversity is an issue on which The General Assembly of UNESCO has paid special attention since 2011, inaugurating a decade of activity called Living in harmony with nature (EU biodiversity strategy 2020). The protection of biodiversity is goal 15 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda.

This is MY space, on 12.12. 2019.
This is how it looked like, while I was doing this piece, in MY space.
ETH price was varying between 139 and 144 DAI that day.
Outside was raining, all day.
Where is MY space?
Nowhere important.

This animated gif is made from an experimental video from the Mlibty Shadows series, generated using Processing. I used the code to manipulate camera light detection in order to get as close as possible to the black and white aesthetics of the Mlibty Shadows series, with a slight addition of red and yellow.

Original video was outputted exclusively for the iDAF festival.

This is exclusive NFT, made for the exhibition "Voxels in MLIBTY Shadows series", which covers selection of MLIBTY Shadows works, influenced by voxels. Works were tokenized as unique editions, on superrare.com/mlibty, during the seven month period.

The "ball" featured in this piece appeared for the first time in "Playing $COLR" work, making it the first MLIBTY Shadows piece with voxels. "Playing $COLR 2" is the newest artwork displayed on the exhibition and comes about seven months after the first piece.

The exhibition is taking place in MLIBTY Gallery in Cryptovoxels, at the following link: MLIBTY Gallery .

If you look back at the MLIBTY Shadows series, use of voxels brought some color into dominantly black and white world, world of human shadows, but it is still digested with difficulty...