enabling a market for digital art ‘digital artists have a lot of problems’ – Kevin McCoy When Technology Meets Art: This Year’s Seven on SevenBY DAWN CHANMay 15, 2014 As they reminded us [Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash], artists who make digital artworks—whether cartoon GIFs or looping video clips—are vulnerable to seeing their work stolen,…
Month: July 2021
NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This
By Anil Dash When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again. The only thing we’d wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work. Back in May 2014, I was paired up with the artist Kevin McCoy at…
Discussing metaverse
David Rudnick, Aria Dean, and Michael Connor discuss artistic and political strategies for responding to the current moment in which a person’s everyday experience, sense of self, job, wealth, and future, may be more deeply tied to digital contexts than physical ones. “We [designers, architects, artists and musicians] are partly responsible for the social and…
Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin)
Set in Stone: Reading Satoshi’s v.0.1.0Robert AliceSep 29, 2020·14 min read[Extract] Published pseudonymously on October 31st 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper has taken on a mythic status with the blockchain community. Poured over and scrutinised linguistically and referentially, it has over the course of the last decade become the cornerstone of blockchain’s culture, a foundational document…
Edmond Belamy
The portrait in its gilt frame depicts a portly gentleman, possibly French and — to judge by his dark frockcoat and plain white collar — a man of the church. The work appears unfinished: the facial features are somewhat indistinct and there are blank areas of canvas. Oddly, the whole composition is displaced slightly to…
NFT: a tectonic move
It took forty years to split the post-contemporary art world from the modern paradigm. Now it’s done. Post-modernism has been the intermediary state behind the present revolution. There is a new cultural avant-garde, born in the United States, followed closely by Europe. International cultural membership has grown at the electronic speed of social networks. In…
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