Wimbledon and Andy Murray Enter the NFT Space with Artwork by Refik Anadol
Famous British tennis player Andy Murray, tennis tournament giant Wimbledon, and digital artist Refik Anadol have joined hands to launch an official Wimbledon non-fungible token (NFT) on Ethereum (ETH).
The project is curated and produced by Web3 consultancy FAN3, said the drop page. The piece, it added, provides an "accessible entry point" to the trio's collaboration.
Per the manifold.xyz, where the sale is now live, the Open Edition launched on July 7 - exactly 10 years after Murray's first Wimbledon win.
"The project will then evolve organically, with live data collection during this year’s Championships," it said.
The price is $147, with 161 minted pieces. The sale will end on July 16.
This is a data-driven art project that includes all of Murray's matches at Wimbledon, according to the player.
The promo video described the project as the world's first fusion of digital art, sport, and data science, allowing for 18 years of Murray's Wimbledon career to be transformed into one unique piece of artwork called 'The Exposition'.
Scientists and developers worked from IBM's Championships data and produced a specific algorithm to create the piece out of millions of inputs from statistics, motion, audio and visual data-
"It reimagines how high-performance sport data can be understood and enjoyed in a strikingly visual way," said the team.
Holders of the NFT will eventually be able to buy a physical print edition of the artwork, produced by Avant Arte.
The partners also suggested that there will be further collaborations "explored" between Murray, Wimbledon, and Anadol in the coming months.
38-year-old Anadol is a Turkish-American new media artist, designer, a "pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence," the Director of Refik
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