# General Overview Collecting live art is a bit of a paradox. How can you collect something that only exists in the moment? How can you make it live forever? Beyond following performance artists’ social media accounts, there are only a few ways in which you can actually invest in Live Art. Until now. Inspired by Primavera de Filippi’s [Plantoid](https://okhaos.com/plantoids/), a digital life-form that feeds on cryptocurrencies and reproduces autonomously, the Sphere’s Digital Soul works as an automated reservoir – a **digital common pool** – for capital accumulation and direct distribution to future artists. When you invest in The Sphere's Digital Soul, you not only support the work of artists you love: you become part of the artwork itself. You become part of an expanding network of live art production that embeds its own capacity for sustainable self-growth. *You hold space for future performances to take place*. In a word: you get a piece of an emergent and groundbreaking – or rather, terraforming? – **Live Art Network Derivative** (LAND). The Digital Soul distributes funding according to two distinct modes: **circus mode** and **curation mode**. Both modes of operations are radically innovative, commons-oriented and playful in their effects and possibilities. These two modes of collection and distribution of funding are facilitated by a hard-coded web 3.0 digital infrastructure, the ***Karmic Engine*** (more about it below). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.thesphere.as/the-sphere-ecosystem/general-overview.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.