CryptoPunks NFTs Set Daily Sales Record of $69M in Ethereum After Visa Buys In.By Andrew Hayward Daily trading volume already tops $69 million and the floor price is above $227,000 following Visa’s morning announcement. An NFT acts like a deed of ownership to a rare digital item, including images, video clips, interactive video game items,…
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Generative art, the right place for NFT art…
During the big NFT surge of the past spring the hype was around 1/1’s. Exclusive sales from named artists that brought the muggles scrambling for any way they could to access platform 9 and three quarters. But didn’t that all feel all so very web2. There was some cool work created and sold but to…
NFTs take off
“I’d love to mint something with you” – Tamiko Thiel. #thenewartfestThe House of ThoughtsNFTs take off Virtual conferenceSeptember 15, 2021 Brussels 16:00Lisbon and London 15:00New York 10:00Hong Kong 22:00 Panel discussion Berk Özdemir +Kevin McCoy +Robert Alice + Moderator António Cerveira PintoTNAF Artistic Director NFTs take off_intro Is the art world moving into a singular…
Pixel
Crypto-artist Pak’s single grey pixel NFT sold for $1.36 million ArtReview News 15 April 2021 The online sale at Sotheby’s accrued a total of $16.8 million A Sotheby’s sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by the crypto-artist Pak brought in $16.8 million, including a single pixel artwork which went for $1.36 million. The sale, titled ‘The…
Lot 7
Lot 7 Robert Alice x Alethea AIiNFT // To the Young Artists of Cyberspace Cryptocurrency PaymentsEstimate Upon Request Lot sold: 478,800 USD To the Young Artists of Cyberspace A groundbreaking collaboration with Alethea AI, Robert Alice’s To the Young Artists of Cyberspace (2021) presents one of the most technologically advanced NFTs made to date, while…
Monegraph
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,…
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…
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…
Let’s talk about NFTs
“I’d love to mint something with you” — Tamiko Thiel In the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art New York. Commissioned for the exhibition: “Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018“September 28, 2018 – April 14, 2019 NFTs brought digital art (generative, AI, robotic, and so on) to a completely new realm of…
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