This summer, IRL invites artists, collectives, and cultural experimenters to participate in IRL Summer - a season-long curatorial campaign at the intersection of digital art, community, and onchain culture.
Launching as part of Base’s Onchain Summer, IRL Summer is an experiment in how art, rewards, and participation can coalesce across digital and physical spaces. As Refraction prepares for the public launch of $IRL, our onchain cultural rewards token, we’re curating a cohort of artists to explore the value of image, visual art, and presence - both physical and online - and the ways in which participation itself becomes a medium for expression.
At a time when most platforms chase attention, IRL Summer focuses on surfacing creative work that invites reflection, interaction, and conversation around how people participate in culture today.
Selected works will be featured in the Coinbase Wallet feed during Onchain Summer.
This open call is for existing digital works - visual, generative, or audio - that experiment with format, context, and showing up onchain.
Please submit:
– A brief proposal (max 300 words) outlining your concept and how it connects to the theme
– Up to 3 examples of previous relevant work
– Login to Coinbase Wallet and info
– Any technical considerations (onchain mechanics, minting needs, display requirements)
– Artist bio + links (website, portfolio, or social)
Submit here: https://form.typeform.com/to/eX9wybRS
Start earning IRL Points: https://www.irl.energy/
Submission Deadline: August 5, 2025
Selected Artists Announced: August 18, 2025
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