AN INTROSPECTIVE EXPLORATION OF YOUR MULTIDIMENSIONAL IDENTITY
PLAY TO EARN A SEITY NFT
PLAY:
Take a moment to think how each of the six themes below applies to you.
EARN:
Done? With all 6? Congrats! You’ve earned a Seity "diploma."
Go mint your NFT (0.013 SOL)
UTILITY:
Use your Seity NFT as an invisible shield against identity politics, tribalism, nationalism, racism, sexism... or just chill.
Zooming-in, we are a complex puzzle of individual characteristics.
Zooming-out, we all look pretty much alike.
Zooming-in, we spot heaven and hell in our traits.
Zooming-out, we are fleshy robots behaving as designed.
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THE SEITY COLLECTION EXPLORES WHAT REALLY MAKES EACH OF US A NON-FUNGIBLE BEING
MOTIVATION
We are living in an era where we are told by traditional mainstream forces that we need to embrace an identity based on very few, arbitrary characteristics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, etc. SEITY aims to break from such reductionism and rebuild the sense of extreme complexity and uniqueness of each individual.
Free your mind from imposed stereotypes and play the Seity game to discover the multidimensional attributes of what you really are at this moment in time or what you aspire to be in this world or in any given Metaverse.
6 themes
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The SEITY collection has 6 themes, each with 36 words/phrases/elements that are matched with unique avatars.
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You play this game by thinking how each theme applies to your multidimensional, unique identity.
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After you're done, you can go and mint a Seity NFT (no more than 2 per person please). It's your "graduation diploma." You'll need a Solana wallet (e.g. Phantom) and the cost is 0.013 SOL.
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Connect with other Seity alumni. Maybe you'll find people with similar sins, talents or guilty pleasures and you might start a nice friendship or who knows.
1. MY SINS
3. MY USELESS SKILLS
5. MY GUILTY PLEASURES
2. MY SUPER-POWERS
4. MY TALENTS
6. WONDERS OF MY WORLD
SEITY examples
From "MY SINS" theme
SEITY IN NUMBERS
2,170
TOTAL NUMBER OF UNIQUE NFTs IN
THE SEITY COLLECTION
6
THEMES IN THE COLLECTION
360
NFTs IN EACH THEME
10
SPECIAL EDITION NFTs IN THE COLLECTION
FAQ
SEITY is an introspection exercise, an awakening of your precious individuality, a reflection on your non-fungible being.
SEITY is a reaction to the increasingly popular trend of defining individuals for just a few characteristics.
SEITY opposes identity politics, tribalism or any movement that reduces human beings to just a gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, political party, generation, etc. They are taking away freedom and conditioning your behavior, your thoughts, your feelings.
Each of the 2,170 unique NFTs has an avatar with visible characteristics in addition to a word or phrase that reflects invisible characteristics from the 6 themes that compose the collection. They were manually generated (i.e., non-programmatically).
What is SEITY?
How do you play SEITY?
The main goal of SEITY is to challenge you to think about yourself in a multidimensional way. Each theme should trigger an introspection exercise where you’re invited to think about how it applies to you.
Once you’ve completed the assignment for the 6 themes, you can mint your SEITY NFT. Think of it as a "graduation diploma."
The contrast between visible (avatar) and invisible (word/phrase) characteristics in the NFTs intends to counterbalance the importance of the two groups in defining yourself as a non-fungible being.
Where can I buy and what is the mint cost?
You’re not supposed to get a Seity NFT without first playing the game of thinking how each of the 6 themes applies to you.
There are only 72 NFTs available for minting at this time. I didn’t put more because I ran into many issues when trying to upload and mint a large collection.
This batch of the Seity NFTs lives in the Solana blockchain, so you’ll need a Solana wallet (e.g. Phantom) to get one and the cost is neglectable: 0.013 SOL.
Who is the Creator?
SEITY was created by Mariano Negri (I’ll go by the pseudonym CIRO), a crypto enthusiast, published novelist, fintech veteran, burner, etc. as a learning experience to start bringing storytelling and contemporary debates into Web 3.0. SEITY is my first attempt to leverage NFTs to create conceptual art that hopefully triggers a thought experiment and a fruitful conversation about identity.
The project took me almost 3 months to complete and it was such a fulfilling and, at times, challenging learning experience. I had to re-learn Photoshop to put together the art; had amusing creative hours to come up with the concept for the collection; managed to put together the webpage; had to remember how to use Phyton to get the .json files with the Metadata for the NFTs; pretended I am some sort of -bad- programmer to learn to upload and mint the collection to the Solana blockchain. Metaplex and Candy Machine were supposed to be easy to use, but they certainly weren’t. However, with tons of patience, I was able to overcome one by one all of the things that went wrong at each step of the process and managed to mint the 72 NFTs that I’m -almost- giving away here.
Are there going to be future collections, similar to SEITY?
You bet! This is a first experiment. I’ll create a new one when I have something important to say and share with the NFT community.
Who did the illustrations?
The avatar images are recycled from an old, short-lived project. The illustrator was ZAPO and CIRO owns the copyrights of all illustrations.