A premier blockchain conference produced at the peak of the initial cryptocurrency boom: over 6,000 delegates globally, 150+ speakers across multiple stages, $2 million+ generated in its first year — event production as participatory platform, deriving its value from the network effects of the participants themselves. The pitch-as-performance lineage that runs from Kitty Kitty Wi-Fi through MegaBots arrives here at industrial scale: the conference stage as the medium.
The work's material is assembly itself. A conference does not represent a community; for the duration of the event it is one, convened into a single room and made briefly visible to itself. Token Fest treats that convening as the artwork — the program, the stages, and the floor are the composition, and the delegates are both audience and medium.
