VenturePunk’s new generative art platform, Prohibition, is rolling out its inaugural collection, Monospatial by generative artist Emily Edelman. The collection will open for sale Tuesday afternoon with a supply of 100 tokens at a mint price of 0.05 ETH, or roughly $95. Backed by investors including Erick Calderon and Devin Finzer, Prohibition allows any artist to create, mint, and sell a generative art collection.
Using the Art Blocks Engine, artists can code their designs on Prohibition to mint their collections on Arbitrum, an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain. Buyers can explore and purchase other generative art collections through Prohibition’s native secondary marketplace. Jordan Lyall, founder and CEO of VenturePunk, said that the platform is designed to break down the barriers to entry for generative art, allowing anyone to create and trade art on Ethereum.
It doesn’t matter what you know, where you come from, what your background is, where in the world you live – anyone can use our tools to create generative art, said Lyall. We really think that if Art Blocks is HBO, Prohibition is YouTube where anybody can upload [their work.]
Lyall added that Arbitrum was chosen for its 90-95% savings in gas fees compared to Ethereum. Additionally, implementing the Art Blocks Engine into the platform helps ease the minting process, making generative art creation accessible for artists.
We’re the first to take these Art Block Engine protocols and open them up for everybody, so anybody can use these tools, said Lyall. And not only that, we’re the first Art Blocks Engine partner to redesign the artist experience.
Emily Edelman, whose work has previously been curated by Art Blocks, is bullish on Prohibition’s mission to level the playing field for creators and buyers entering the growing generative art ecosystem.
I’m so proud to have my project, Monospatial, as project #0 on Prohibition, said Edelman. I hugely believe in this platform built for accessibility and ease, experiments and inventions, artists and collectors, ALL of us.
In the coming months, Lyall plans to add features to ease the minting process on Prohibition further, including a match-making service that helps pair developers with artists to produce collections, as well as a no-code solution for artists to bring their work to life.