Early Crypto Art wasn’t punk rock. That is a plain lie — or an after-the-fact illusion.
What a shitty art that "Trash Art Movement" actually was!
What Crypto Art produced, above all, was an endlessly renewed stream of digital images, many of them mediocre. Why buy this one, when the next “better” one is already waiting around the corner?
Digital art carries a hidden fragility. It depends on screens, platforms, servers, wallets, passwords, blockchains, interfaces, and permission systems. Pull one big switch, and it is gone — not destroyed in the heroic sense, but simply vanished into some technical nirvana.
Build on something that has weight. Paint, metal, paper, canvas, wood, stone — whatever resists disappearance.
Soon you may not even be allowed to read a newsletter without age verification, a QR code, an app, or some new bureaucratic ritual.
Beautifully written.
Early Crypto Art wasn’t punk rock. That is a plain lie — or an after-the-fact illusion.
What a shitty art that "Trash Art Movement" actually was!
What Crypto Art produced, above all, was an endlessly renewed stream of digital images, many of them mediocre. Why buy this one, when the next “better” one is already waiting around the corner?
Digital art carries a hidden fragility. It depends on screens, platforms, servers, wallets, passwords, blockchains, interfaces, and permission systems. Pull one big switch, and it is gone — not destroyed in the heroic sense, but simply vanished into some technical nirvana.
Build on something that has weight. Paint, metal, paper, canvas, wood, stone — whatever resists disappearance.
Soon you may not even be allowed to read a newsletter without age verification, a QR code, an app, or some new bureaucratic ritual.
Digital is built on sand.
Best regards, Heiner