Carpe GM

3D digital Collage
Dimensions: 1080x1080
File Size: 155.4mb
Duration: 0:52.

Originally created for the 6529 Meme Card series, season 6 finale, Carpe GM by Rebecca Rose is part of the artist’s ongoing DeepCuts series of time-based 3D collages with sound.

For this particular artwork, Rose takes up the ubiquitous Pepe the Frog meme, an emblem of Internet culture and the unofficial crypto mascot. By placing Pepe in a midcentury factory setting, Rose humorously and poignantly conveys contemporary crypto themes of decentralization, labor, financial disruption, and democratized power through an historical aesthetic lens.

Rose writes, “By seizing the memes of production we find brotherhood, pleasure, and the concerted gusto to change the system, empowered in solidarity. Memes are the catalyst for our revolution to achieve self sovereignty.”

From Punk6529, “What do I see? A national anthem, a revolution, an origin story, the birth of a nation…”

The soundtrack is edited by the artist and contains excerpts from “Captain Shepherd’s Quickstep”, a public domain piece from 1850 recorded by the Library of Congress in 1974.

Carpe GM has been publicly exhibited at Diapo Gallery, Nice, FR (2024); Consensus, Austin (2024); and NFT.NYC, Nolcha Shows (2024).

Carpe GM embodies the spirit of the global crypto movement, challenging institutional paradigms and celebrating the democratization of creativity via technology. As a narrative-driven digital artwork, it invites dialogue on the future of labor, sovereignty, and the power of collective action and memetic momentum, making it a vital addition to any forward-thinking collection.