An Artist in Crypto
If artists are seen to be creating art simply to cater to the market, it compromises their integrity and the market loses confidence in their work.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
what sets a digital artist apart from the traditional artist - who wields a paintbrush or molds clay - is their ability to go full on meta, to create and/or create systems of creating.
however, this incredible power of abstraction comes at a cost: it makes the experience of the process unintelligible to the viewer. and yet, almost everyone, regard... See more
Most of what the crypto world calls art is entertainment, or fashionable assets. They snatch your attention. They care more about making a tweet or a headline declaring they SOLD OUT, they set a HISTORICAL RECORD, and they tell you this is the art’s value. But the value of what? Monetary value is not a good indicator of the aesthetic value, the his... See more
Wendi Yan • An Artist in Crypto
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them — and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire. So how do we assess an artist who we suspect is dreadful but who manages to inspire the right storm of attention, and whose audience seems to swoon in the appropriate way? We say, ‘Well done.’... See more
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