Refraction

Refraction is an artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL. RefractionDAO’s goal is to become a decentralized global creative community of artists, curators and fans focused on moving culture forward through collectively reimagining live experiences in the physical world and in the open metaverse. Our mission is to equitably redistribute the upside back to creators while enabling collective ownership, and fostering new models of organization. Diversity is central to our core ethos with BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities being the focus of our founding membership, residencies, and intended mentorship programs. We’ve also mandated charitable participation as a requisite for every initiative. Our cornerstone is Refraction Festival, a month-long fully on-chain IRL<->URL project featuring musical performances and art installations in over 10 cities across five continents available globally through the open metaverse. As an artistic node for Web3 projects born from the community, RefractionDAO will not only organize the festival but collectively manage: ongoing projects and commissions. Modern underground movements have always been artist curated and run, and we believe that returning power back to creators will have a positive impact on culture and society at large.