The Thoreau Centre for the Blockchain Arts (TCBA) is a space dedicated to the promotion of art on the blockchain, that exists as a webpage with a full catalog, and Virtual Reality spaces built on both Voxels (former CryptoVoxels) and Decentraland that display curated pieces from the collection.
The webpage is hosted by GitHub but efforts are currently being made to publish it on the IPFS to ensure (some) resilience and censorship resistance.
On Decentraland the building was implemented on an estate (32,54) provided 'rent-free' by the Anarchists INTL District. The parcels on Voxels (#855 and #967) are owned by me (oficinas tk)
Aligned with the district guidelines Ⓐ 20.52](decentraland/districts#18), the admittance of visitors to the TCBA will never be gated and no fees will be charged to artists seeking to display their work.
It is in its immediate goals to promote regular exhibitions of old and new work by artists on the blockchain, as well as to arrange for a permanent exhibition of 'historical' blockchain art (Rare Pepes, Cryptopunks, etc) to document these early manifestations.
TCBA DCL can be visited on Decentraland
The TCBA Embassy and TCBA Collection were built on Voxels and serve as a bridge between metaverses, as well as to raise awareness about the TCBA and to display its collection. They are placed at 1, Monad Court and at 1, Poly Troughway, in Little Tokyo just on the outskirts of the budding Arts District.
Henry David Thoreau was a north american writer whose ideas revolved around the concept of 'self-reliance' and as this is a personal project by Oficinas TK (a one-man crew with a 'no budget' approach) it seemed adequate to honour him.
Feel free to drop a line at oficinastk at gmail.com if you would like to know more about this, help or even collaborate.