Each mint generates a unique performance of a musical score, featuring different combinations of instrumentation and percussion. Click on instruments to activate them, or connect a controller. As the choir sings, the viewer is introduced to the world of Zantar, a fictional game where the stakes are real.
Mitchell F. Chan has been described by one critic as “committed to the most serious ideas of conceptualism in the most playful way possible.” He is best-known for creating one of the earliest non-fungible token artworks, 2017's Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. Editions of Digital Zones have been exhibited in the Fondazione Prada exhibition Monte di Pietá during the 60th Venice Biennale, and sold at auction at Sotheby’s for a digital-conceptual record price of USD $1.53M. Chan's other recent work includes: The Boys of Summer, an interactive sports management simulation; and Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge, an allegorical croquet video game about Reconstruction-era America, commissioned by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
Overture is the first installment in The Zantar Triptych, a series of interactive artworks that tell connected stories about a fictional game and its digital economy. Overture premiered at Beeple's SELECT START event in March 2025, alongside works by Lu Yang, Auriea Harvey, and new work by Cory Arcangel. The Zantar Triptych debuted in its entirety in Chan's May 2025 solo exhibition at Nguyen Wahed in New York City.
