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in Arts‘Beeple Mania’: How Mike Winkelmann Makes Millions Selling Pixels (www.esquire.com)
He’s a dad from Wisconsin who drives a “piece of shit” Corolla. And his brilliantly absurd artwork has made him the face of a crypto market you didn’t know existed.
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in Arts, Blockchain
Christie’s to auction blockchain-backed art from digital artist Beeple (mobilemarketingmagazine.com)
Christie’s will be the first major auction house to sell purely a digital, blockchain-backed piece of art when it opens the bidding for a work of art from digital artist Beeple on Thursday 25 February. The digital work of art is a non-fungible token (NFT), which is a unique digital token encrypted with the artist’s signature. This NFT is individually identified on the blockchain, meaning the right owner and authenticity of a creation can be verified. Prior to the introduction of NFTs and blockchain technology, there was no way of knowing if a digital piece of art was duplicated or not. Everydays – The First 5000 Days was created by Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple. On 1…
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in Arts, Virtual Reality
Art in a virtual reality: the platforms bringing culture home (www.wallpaper.com)
The art world has adapting fast to the pandemic, and our screens have stepped in as gallery, studio and canvas. These are the digital initiatives satiating our art appetite with the real – yet unreal – deal
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Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels (nautil.us)
The power of narrative flows only from the human brain.
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