RR/BAYC (2022) by
@ryder_ripps
Ryder's brilliant project, RR/BAYC, replicates the insanely successful apes 1 for 1 but gives them new context/meaning.
Created for educational purposes, RR/BAYC copies are grotesque mirrors, calling out the racist undertones of the apes.
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If you purchase a Lifeform by Sarah Friend
@isthisanart_
you have 90 days to give it away after purchase or it will disappear from your wallet, becoming irretrievable.
This is an NFT asset that is anti-speculativeโyou canโt hold and wait for it to hopefully increase in value.
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Pepe the frog, as an alt-right calling-card, a pro-democracy war-banner, a Twitter meme, a backdrop to a 4chan greentext, an NFT, is perhaps the perfect symbol for our times.
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DATA-MASKS
In 2014
@sterlingcrispin
reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms to create biomorphic 3D-printed masks revealing how algorithms "seeโ human faces.
The result questions how surveillance AI is changing identity and how we interact with tech.
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๐งNomemeneโs art is fluid and aqueous, as if painted with salty ocean water.
๐งOr maybe you are just looking at them through teary eyes. Tears of malicious joy or confusion, not pure sadness.
๐งCheck out
@nomemene
in the final
@dis
@ourZORA
edit!
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In 2021,
@dennnnnnnnny
changed the image of a 2018 NFT to make a new one, highlighting the fact that while the link for an NFT can't change, the image for it can.
What do you think this means for the non-fungibility of the token?
Read more
@ourZORA
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@mckenziewark
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From the capitalist commodification of time, to transness, climate change and raving the pain away, theorist McKenzie Wark muses on the death-related anxieties of our time.
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Nomemene says, โIf there is such a thing as a Guntama, or group soul, I want to be aware of it.โ
Guntama is the notion that rocks, plants, fish, and animals have one soul as a group, which means that even if one life dies, the soul is not lost.
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@finiliar
(2022) by
@EddFornieles
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Money is a fiction that we agree to live by, a perverse and haunting figment of our collective imagination.
๐๐๐๐ Finiliars are adorable creatures whose moods and behavior is linked to the ups and downs of a particular coin๐ธ๐๐ฐ
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Coming ๐๐ to Deathclock.
"All the time in the world" by McKenzie Wark.
@mckenziewark
's meditative musings on time, hormones, art, and raving.
RT and follow for updates.
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Will the dead โtake overโ Facebook? Hundreds of millions of dead profiles will be added to the network in the next few decades alone, so that the dead may well outnumber the living before the end of the century.
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What is ownership in the NFT sphere anyway? Does holding a token give someone a unique claim over an imageโs use or not? What is the value of satire?
With RR/BAYC,
@ryder_ripps
proves that since NFTs are by definition non-fungible, any โcopyโ of one is legally a new NFT.
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Likes are meant to be given out like a child spontaneously showing affection and enthusiasm, not like an old sad hipster who thinks their twitter like or unlike is a stand-in for a New Yorker review.
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@ryder_ripps
and others uncovered Nazi imagery and alt-right 4chan references embedded in BAYC apes. Until now, these had gone largely unnoticed onlineโโeven among the 10k people who own one.
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Whether BAYC is sending a message to fellow alt-right/racist sympathizers, or simply trolling for the lulz, does not matter.
The sickening connotations of the symbols and language they use needs to be uncovered and discussed openly as
@ryder_ripps
@thirdeyeoftruth
have done.
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The use of the mechanical clock starting in 14th Europe slowly transformed serfdom into time-rate wage labor. Time is an instrument to be weaponized. First with bell towers, then with clocks, Europeans measured with increasing accuracy the perceived value of laborers time.
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โ๏ธShreddersโ๏ธ
@zak_krevitt
's Shredders is an exploration of one single portrait, seen 150 ways.
The portraitโoriginally taken for Standard Magazine in 2018โis of Fet Fet, a legendary club kid fixture of GHE20G0TH1K and Lady Fag.
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Techno-feudalism: a term to try and grasp the future implications of increasingly centralized + transnational corporate power with MANGA (Meta, Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon) and other actors.
#TechnoFeudalism
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@archaeologyart
The question I've always had about Lascaux: how/where did the artists practice their skills to get to the level of mastery displayed here? Did they practice in other caves? Make sketches in the earth? Does anyone know?
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Pepe is in constant search of a purpose in a world of images.
He is both subject and symbol, meme and being.
His simple, malleable featuresโits large emotive eyes and mouthโlend themselves to the expression of the hyper-specific yet deeply relatable discontents of our time.
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In the center of this Wheel of Life are the 3 poisons of Samsara:
Desire : represented by a cockerel
Hatred/Jealousy : a snake
Ignorance : a boar
Each animal holds onto the tail of another. These negative states lead to each other in an endless loop.
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Calendars designed to predict the exact time and date of the Day of Judgment.
Made by outsider artist Zebedee Armstrong with found objects in the 70s.
Thank you
@Lucy2Scribbles
for sharing these with us.
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Ancient Romans used the plant Silphium as a form of herbal birth control. It was so in demand that it was eventually harvested to extinction by the end of the first century AD.
#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
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An ancient man and woman have been found locked in a loving embrace for 3,000 years in a grave in Ukraine.
Woman was willingly entombed alive in order to accompany her husband to next world, archeologists believe.
#archaeohistories
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The Zoroastrians of Persia traditionally left the corpse in "towers of silence" (dakhma) where vultures and other birds of prey would strip the bodies of flesh.
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โฐ๏ธ๐ชฆโ๏ธDeath Clock is a serial NFT project in which you are invited to provide personal data (age, gender, screen time etc), based on which Death Clock estimates how much time you have left on Earth.
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Once minted, your clock stores your date and time of death on-chain. ๐โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
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Time as an instrument to be weaponized.
Wage labour: renting yourself out, trading your time for money.
At first only some people had access to clocks, they controlled and manipulated time.
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For "Blockchain Visionaries," commissioned by
@dis
for the 9th Berlin Biennale in 2016,
@dennnnnnnnny
created fair-trade like information booths for Ethereum, 21 Inc, and Digital Asset Holdingsโall at the forefront of digital monetary platforms at the time.
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