current version: v1.0
Description
Dark Tales is an AI-augmented experiment in existential literature, distilled into a limited NFT constellation of black & white photographs and text fragments.
Each token opens a fissure in the fractured memories of Cormac Delaney, a man or perhaps something stranger, whose search of meaning dissolves into surreal stories of myth, cult, occult and unkown nature, walking the line of the trembling boundaries of perception.
Composed of 50 interwoven stories, the collection fuses post-photography with living prose; holders do not merely possess a relic but a self‑rewriting idea, a recursive mirror that mutates whenever it is observed.
Acquire a piece of literature that refuses to settle—where every gaze redraws the meaning of its own dread. Collectors can head to darktales.xyz, connect their wallet, and initiate their first interaction with each photo.
Every exchange spawns a collector’s report, preserved in a public archive so anyone may investigate the growing mythology.
The report and a snapshot of the dialogue are inscribed into the token’s metadata, yet the full transcript remains end‑to‑end encrypted; visible only to the owner of the token.
A project by Vandalo Ruins.
Mediums
Title: Dark Tales Installation
Year of Creation: 2025
Technologies: RFID technology, computational narrative, microcontrollers, electronic components & sensors, programming in React.js & JavaScript, TouchDesigner, 3D printing, archival material.
*This Installation displayed at NFC Summit 2025 at Lisbon, PT.
