Beeple, Everydays – The First 5000 Days NFT, 21,069 pixels x 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes). Image courtesy the artist and Christie’s. This piece recently sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million.
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech break down the meteoric rise of NFTs.
“These things aren’t necessarily meant to be bought and kept — they’re meant to be flipped — that’s the point. That’s how they gain value.”
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—Hyperallergic: NFT Art Goes Viral and Heads to Auction — But What Is It?
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—Martin Lukas Ostachowski: A Chronological Review of Crypto Art, Blockchain-related Physical Art and Crypto Collectibles
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—The Associated Press auctions its first NFT commemorating AP’s historic use of the blockchain for distributing 2020 election data
—Institute of Network Cultures: Remarks on Crypto-Art by Rosa Menkman
5 comments
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/mar/12/before-the-boom/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/mar/03/another-new-world/
…not to be too self-serving, but I do think these are good articles to add to the list. Also, I haven’t had a chance to listen to the full podcast yet (too many NFT articles to catch up with), but we sold a digital edition of an HTML webpage that was already publicly available on my website at Road Agent around 2008. 🙂
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Am I to understand that digital art has become the bubble gum wrapper around an NFT? The real value being what’s hidden inside?
This is really well done. Very clear, and very honest too.