As Liu Cixin, the author of "The Three Body Problem", said, "in the hands of visual artists, science fiction will show its greatest charm."

In MarrowDAO, there are many members who like science fiction meet here, many of them because they are loyal readers of science fiction writer Liu Cixin, and later joined our incubated Guild W as players of the on-chain game Dark Forest.

Together with Sougen and HAWK AND RAVEN Studio, we organized this digital art exhibition titled "Dark Forest & Waterdrop".

Here are the introduction and tutorials for visitors.

Artists

Fractist – LinChen

Fractist (LinChen) is a Chinese fractal artist with over ten years of experience. His works are the intersections of art and mathematics. In the past ten years, he has not only created a large number of excellent works, but also founded the Fractal Art Website, dedicated to promoting fractal art in China.

Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still digital images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid-1980s onwards. It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art. The mathematical beauty of fractals lies at the intersection of generative art and computer art. They combine to produce a type of abstract art.

His works in this exhibition are the imagination of alien creatures and environments based on the setting of Dark Forest.

Works:

[Works: https://www.deviantart.com/fractist](Works: https://www.deviantart.com/fractist)

Yuqian Sun

Yuqian Sun is a Chinese AI artist and researcher who graduated from Tsinghua University and Goldsmiths. She's currently a doctoral student at the Royal College of Art, and an art consultant of rct.ai. She’s also an artist on SuperRare.

Inspired by conversations between virtual characters in video games, she produces works that steer with curiosity. Her main art projects focused on AI chatbots, which explore the narrative and intimacy in human-AI interaction.

Her works and research have been presented at galleries and conferences including 2020 Artificial Life, The media facade of Yeltsin Center, ACM Celebration of Women in Computing, ISEA 2022, BBA Gallery Berlin, Shanghai Aiiiii Art Center and New York Times Square.

Her work in this exhibition, also included in "The Three-body Problem art illustration Book", depicts the "Staircase project" from the science fiction novel "The Three Body Problem": In order to obtain information, the PIA initially plans to launch a probe directly at the Three Body fleet. For the purpose of reducing weight, Thomas Wade suggested instead to deliver only a human brain, which would be instantly frozen to extremely low temperatures by using liquid nitrogen. Although humans could not yet be thawed intact, they believed that the Three Body civilization were already in possession of this technology and could also clone another body. So, after layers of selection, Yun Tianming finally became the best candidate for this project.

This work also pays tribute to Michelangelo's 'Pieta'.

Personal website:

Popil

Popil is an Animator Artist, Web3 Curator. Interested in AR& 3D. Today at Apple teacher.  Ex Community manager& Creator on OpenSea. And global creator community director on Element marketplace.

Her works comes from the Magic Forest No Sleep collection, a 5K randomized NFT project. Popil has created the Six wild monsters. Each includes 10+ layers. This cute and wild collection brings fun and magic into the hidden dark forest with Popil's eclectic art.

Personal website:

Community Science Fiction Art Co-creation Event

In this exhibition, we have planned a science fiction community co-creation event.

First, we invited four young Chinese science fiction writers who have a positive attitude towards Web3 to write four paragraphs about science fiction scenes around the theme of dark forest and waterdrop.

Then, we organized a generative art flash mob contest. During those three days, anyone can refer to the AI generated art tutorials we provided and create their own work based on words written by the four science fiction writers.

Finally, our curators select the parts of the community submissions that are thematically distinct and aesthetically pleasing to art as the exhibited works.

Writers

ScLim

SciFi-writer/drama-director/game-scenarist，squirm、metamorphosis、transition

Greatsnow (Zhao Chong)

A young science fiction writer from Liaoning, China. He is a finalist in the Metaverse Science Fiction Story Contest and specializes in writing science fiction stories with local cultural characteristics and features of the times.

He has always been very interested in blockchain technology.

Camellia (Li Tong)

Chinese science fiction writer, game scriptwriter, currently working hard to marry his wife 😉

Zhou Fangjun

Member of the 2019 China National Arts Foundation Brand Talent Training, has won the West Lake IP Conference Prize, the Chinese New Voice Science Fiction Literature Award, and the Guaitan Literature Award. His novels have been published on platforms such as in Jin Gu Chuan Qi, Wenxuegang Journal, No-exist Science Fiction, etc.

Community Creators

Feel free to @ the creator of the work in your screenshot when you tweet about the exhibition, some creators have prepared NFT gifts for visitors.

Curators

CryptoDesigner: Web3 designer, MarrowDAO & Sougen builder, graduated from New York University.

K Erica: science fiction writer and Web3 practitioner, MarrowDAO builder, worked for China Academy of Art.

Grace Jiang: PhD. in Art, graduated from Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, currently a teacher at Zhejiang University.

Organizers

DARK FOREST & WATERDROP is organized by Sougen, MarrowDAO and HAWK AND RAVEN STUDIO.

Sougen is a web-first metaverse that allows people to socialize, learn, work, and get entertained in new ways.

MarrowDAO is a metaverse buidler DAO, which has incubated Guild W, the first on-chain e-sport team.

HAWK AND RAVEN is a Web3 creative studio based in Dubai, dedicated to building in the brilliant Web3 metaverses.

Tutorial: How to visit the exhibition and get a visitor NFT?

If you want to get Visitor NFT, you need to go to our campaign page at

and complete the tasks as required, the following guide is only for screenshots and tweeting tasks.

First, open the Sougen Alpha website:

[First, open https://alpha.sougen.co. ](First, open https://alpha.sougen.co. )

After the page is loaded, click on the button in the upper right corner as shown below, connect your discord and Ethereum wallet:

You can find the SETTING section, where you can adjust some settings to your appropriate mode.

Attention! Since Sougen is in Alpha stage and is only available to discord members, you need to join the Sougen discord first.

For the visitor, there are currently two way to get screenshots.

Free Mode

Follow the route drawn in the screenshots below to find the location of the exhibition - the fourth floor of the Sougen Gallery.

You can pick your favorite piece, take a picture with it, and save the screenshot.

Pressing V will switch to first-person view.

You can also press E or click on the artwork to read the information about the work.

You can get screenshots by any way you like, write exhibitor comments, and post to Twitter.
However, the following conditions need to be met for tweets to participate in the campaign:

1. @sougenco @marrowdao @hawkravenstudio

2. Using tag #sougen #guildw #metaverse

We will carefully read every comment and select the 20 most heartfelt ones to give them Sougen PFP NFT WLs. Some of the best commenters will then be invited to participate in our future closed art events.

Guide Mode

You can also get the screenshot and tweet in the guide mode.

First, find the hub host and walk toward him.

Then, click on the hub host to talk to him. Choose “I want to participate in the art exhibition”.

Choose “take a screenshot”.

Choose your favorite part of the exhibition.

For example, if you select "community works", the screen will jump to the corresponding location, and at this time, you need to take a screenshot yourself.

Click on the screen, it will bring you to the final step. If you did not take a screenshot, you can choose “missed it, let’s do it again”. If you did it, you should choose the blue button “CLICK TO POST ON TWITTER”.

You can modify the text as you like, but don't forget to add the picture, but the tweet should include the following content:

1. @sougenco @marrowdao @hawkravenstudio

2. Using tag #sougen #guildw #metaverse