The Cryptoqueen performance at RTAI
The Cryptoqueen
Four SnapChat performance filters developed for Chicks on Speed to narrate the journey Cryptocurrency OneCoin Founder Ruja Ignatova
The Founder of Cryptocurrency scam OneCoin and self-styled ‘CryptoQueen’, Ruja Ignatova, remains at large. She is currently facing a number
of criminal charges, after being charged with fraud for her role in the scheme.
Since her disappearance in 2017, authorities have uncovered
in excess of $1.5 billion in assets purportedly connected with Ignatova and the OneCoin scam.
I developed 4 different SnapChat filters in lensstudio to mirror the story arch for the rise and fall of the CryptoQueen.
I then performed with them using Zoom as an interface to control the virtual backgrounds with as well as changing the masks.
Performing the Cryptoqueen with Chicks on Speed at RTAI
Performing the Cryptoqueen with Chicks on Speed at RTAI
Performing the Cryptoqueen with Chicks on Speed live on stage at Muffatwerk
Thies Munther wearing the cryptoqueen filter
The Cryptoqueen at Utopia
Crypto Queen - by Chicks on Speed feat. The Cybernetic Nightingale, Panja Göbel, Apex Anima (aka Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir), Joshua Dekia and Tina Frank.
Crypto Queen Video:
Augmented reality filter sequences by Panja Göbel
Music vídeo directed by Chicks on Speed, Mohammad Bayesteh & Thies Mynther
Edited by Mohammad Bayesteh
Crypto Queen song: Arranged and produced by Thies Mynther
Crypto Queen song: Composed by Mynther, Murray-Leslie, Logan
Lyrics by Mynther, Murray-Leslie, Logan
Apex Anima (Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir) and Joshua Dekia: Additional Vocals
Veit Sprenger: Vocals and Theremin
Mechatronic instruments built by Tobias Euler
Filmed on Location Dokkhuset, Trondheim, Norway; ‘Uploading the Human’ performance by Chicks on Speed & collaborators, as part of DIKU Artistic Research Forum 19th April, 2021.
Kindly supported by RTAI Real time telematic Audiovisual Improvisation,
DIKU, Norwegian Artistic Research Program
