Serwah AttafuahCreation of My Metaverse (Between this World and the Next) Owner: Serwah Attafuah Serwah Attafuah b. 1998 Creation of My Metaverse (Between this World and the Next) 2021 Non-fungible Token ERC-721 Token ID: 0 PNG 6000×3600 px May 27, 2021, ed. 1/1 Smart Contract Address: 0x6c326E329963F30F750136f822CAe928fb1f805C Condition Report The following condition report is provided…
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…
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…
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…
TNAF '20'21 