Uncommon Gallery Kicks Off 2025 with a Pioneering Web3 AI & NFT Art Initiative

- Uncommon Gallery for Web3 AI Art hub, Successfully Concludes 2025 New Year Celebration with Around 30 Artists - Announces Launch of Uncommon Universe, Offering Transparent Transactions and Communication Utilizing Blockchain Technology [Unblock Media] On February 5th, Uncommon Gallery successfully concluded its 2025 New Year celebration event at its digital art space located on Bongeunsa-ro, Gangnam. The event attracted significant interest as around 30 artists and related personnel gathered to discuss new art cultures and officially announce the launch of Uncommon Universe. Uncommon Gallery is a digital art gallery based on the Web3, AI, and new media community, operated by Common Computer, an internet technology company for AI. Since its opening in 2022, the gallery has held about 50 exhibitions and has collaborated with over 400 artists worldwide. Members of the Uncommon Community form long-term and friendly relationships by connecting and helping each other. This particular New Year event, timed to the Lunar New Year, served as a special event to mark the significant step in 2025 to robustly build the Uncommon Community and lay the groundwork for long-term collaboration with the announcement of Uncommon Universe. The Uncommon Universe aims for transparent transactions and communication between artists and fans through blockchain technology and plans to develop into a private community where artists and fans can interact through an NFT and token distribution system. The event was graced by diverse new media and AI artists active domestically and internationally, including ShinyTiger, Nicole Ruggiero, OELHAN, IUM, KEEPKWAN, Parker5, MiND.PAPER, Dawon, DANA. They shared their world of artworks and presented their new creations as gifts in the event's traditional Korean “fortune pouch” giveaway, offering fans special New Year gifts. The Uncommon Gallery’s partnership artists’ works and Common Computer-related project NFTs and coins were used as prizes in the New Year fortune pouches service, offering fans a chance to receive New Year's greetings from artists along with random prizes containing images of their works. The pouch could be opened to reveal the prize, which could also be shared with friends. Among the many artists who participated in the event, Dawon and IUM shared their thoughts on the New Year's gathering through their personal social media accounts and interview. Dawon said, “It was a great opportunity to have deep conversations with fellow artists, and the gallery’s heartfelt sincerity truly came through—quite literally, with the sesame oil gift!” And she captured her New Year's gathering impressions in a drawing on the Uncommon Notebook, designed to inspire artists. IUM shared, “It was a warm time for AI artists to share NFT gifts and look back on past exhibitions while networking.” The event organizers emphasized the importance of long-term and solid connections with artists to genuinely establish the Uncommon Universe. From this year onwards, they plan to actively utilize online services as well as offline exhibitions to reach a broader audience and expand the community through various AI and new media art projects and global exchange events. Additionally, the organizers announced the upcoming Uncommon Card project, designed to offer fans a Web3 art experience. High-quality digital cards featuring works by artists from the Uncommon Community will be produced, and the cards will include surprise gift links for receiving artworks or tokens. Through these cards, fans will be able to conveniently own NFTs and tokens and participate in communications or events with the artists. Uncommon Gallery aims to continue providing new visual art experiences and to become a platform that sparks creative synergy at the intersection of technology and art. With this New Year event as a starting point, it is anticipated how the Uncommon Universe will demonstrate innovative movements through blockchain services.