TY - JOUR
T1 - All that is solid melts in the Ethereum
T2 - the brave new (art) world of NFTs
AU - Notaro, Anna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article explores non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs, or blockchain-based certificates of ownership for visual or physical assets, a cultural phenomenon which has come to the media attention following the sale of a non-fungible token photo collage, Everyday: The First 5,000 Days, for more than 69 million USD at a Christie's auction in March 2021. The sale made Mike Winkelman (aka Beeple) the third most valuable living artist, behind Jeff Koons and David Hockney starting off a conversation about NFTs which has covered a wide range of issues, including: the contested relationship between art and the market, the long debated question of collective and/or individual authorship within digital aesthetics, the most recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and their creative potential with regard to NFTs – i.e. the appearance of intelligent non-fungible tokens (iNFTs)–and, lastly, the role of cryptocurrencies as a tool for artists’ empowerment or, conversely, as a selling out, under new technological guises, to the capitalist logic of the market. The article reviews and evaluates such debates with the aim to offer critical pointers to help the reader navigate the emerging world of Crypto art.
AB - This article explores non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs, or blockchain-based certificates of ownership for visual or physical assets, a cultural phenomenon which has come to the media attention following the sale of a non-fungible token photo collage, Everyday: The First 5,000 Days, for more than 69 million USD at a Christie's auction in March 2021. The sale made Mike Winkelman (aka Beeple) the third most valuable living artist, behind Jeff Koons and David Hockney starting off a conversation about NFTs which has covered a wide range of issues, including: the contested relationship between art and the market, the long debated question of collective and/or individual authorship within digital aesthetics, the most recent developments in Artificial Intelligence and their creative potential with regard to NFTs – i.e. the appearance of intelligent non-fungible tokens (iNFTs)–and, lastly, the role of cryptocurrencies as a tool for artists’ empowerment or, conversely, as a selling out, under new technological guises, to the capitalist logic of the market. The article reviews and evaluates such debates with the aim to offer critical pointers to help the reader navigate the emerging world of Crypto art.
KW - AI art
KW - Crypto art
KW - NFTs
KW - blockchain
KW - contemporary art
KW - digital art
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141618620&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14702029.2022.2129204
DO - 10.1080/14702029.2022.2129204
M3 - Article
VL - 21
SP - 359
EP - 382
JO - Journal of Visual Art Practice
JF - Journal of Visual Art Practice
SN - 1470-2029
IS - 4
ER -