The world's first modern art meme token, and more…
Explore the infinity of digital art ownership with the IKB token. Inspired by Yves Klein's iconic color and vision: Art without materiality
"Blue has no dimensions; it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not... All colors arouse specific associative ideas... while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract."
French artist (1928 - 1962)
No utility, but artistic value. The IKB token challenges the boundaries of what we consider valuable and invites a new conversation about the intersection of art, technology, and culture.
Initiated by fair launch by techno-artists, with zero pre-allocation, the IKB token is also a community token. Holding IKB gives access to participate in contests, artist grants, art experiments, and a DAO.
Inspired by the body of work of Yves Klein, the modern and conceptual artist born in Nice, France, we believe that his creation of International Klein Blue in 1960 is the original meme, a meme before its time. We have taken this and turned it into a blockchain-based token to be able to fulfil the artist’s vision of a “Blue Revolution” where everyone would benefit from the birth of International Klein Blue.
TOKEN MILESTONES
COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS
Notable IKB community members
The IKB token project was started by a small international collective of like-minded techno-artists who met online, brought together by admiration of the color of International Klein Blue as well as the thought-provoking questions asked by the artist Yves Klein more than 60 years ago. Klein demonstrated that art is generally only valued by humans when there is a price attached to it, then taking that question to the extreme by testing this hypothesis when the art in question was in fact just conceptual and immaterial. We thus find it fitting to have International Klein Blue represented as a fungible blockchain token, though limited in supply, all interchangeable, as the perfect immaterial representation of International Klein Blue itself.
The founding IKB collective is not seeking fame and is actively seeking to yield increasingly less control on the IKB project. This started from the method of minting the token (a fair mint with zero pre-allocation for the team), and continued with the creation of an IKB DAO with a small treasury for future initiatives. We thus feel it more appropriate to highlight notable IKB token holders who are independently working on grassroots initiatives or simply doing the good work of promoting the IKB community so that the Blue Revolution can continue to grow.
COMMUNITY FEEDBACK & PROPOSALS
No rights reserved. We acknowledge the visionary ideas of artist Yves Klein 60+ years ago