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PRIZE RESULT SPEECH THREAD:
1)
I am beyond delighted to have won top prize in Optimism’s We ❤️ The Art Competition in the 1/1 category, alongside the talented and delightful
@shavonnewong_
.
EXCLUSIVE:
@Optimism
has revealed the top "We ❤️ the Art" contest winners
1/1s:
@shavonnewong_
@mitchellfchan
Music:
@thepark
@roadtoaly
AI:
@pegasus_vfx
@cammurdochmusic
Generative:
@0xShiroi
@cyberjock11
We spoke to
@binji_x
,
@earemu
and a number of the artists to get all
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So, you probably want to know ALL the juicy details about what happened at the Castle in Prague last night, huh?
Well, here's a thread... 🧵
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Simply unbelievable. Thank you to everyone who has believed in this project, taken the time to read about it, discuss it, and share it. Thank you
@justinsuntron
and
@apenftorg
for officially placing it IN THE CANON.
I just spent 569
#ETH
($2M USD) on three Digital Zones Edition 83,8&92 from
@mitchellfchan
and donated it to
@apenftorg
as a collection. You can check on my opensea collection
#NFT
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Pay the people who build culture.
Pay writers.
Pay curators.
Or else get stuck with a zerosum cesspool ponzi culture.
No points on the package.
No reflinks.
No "exposure."
Pay. Them. Money.
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT TIME🚨
I’m very excited to share my next artwork release,
"THE BOYS OF SUMMER"
A year in the making.
An interactive art game,
containing a PFP collection, producing a market performance.
Coming VERY SOON on
@Wildxyz
.
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I honestly cannot believe how good the VeraBlocks are.
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Doing final tweaks to Boys of Summer PFP collection. So excited.
I think the classic 90's LA black-and-white look slays, especially with flat top and backed up by a bat-with-spikes-on-it.
hello Jermaine Rodgers.
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HELL YES I AM FLEXING THIS.
Thank you
@BuffaloAKG
for the LIFETIME membership, ultra-slick “Artist In The Collection” tier.
Certified.
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Gather round, kids, and let me teach you something.
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Boys of Summer mint is tomorrow at 1pm ET (allowlist) and 1:30pm ET (public).
Here is a handy visual guide to help you decide whether or not this art project is for you.
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SO SICK. WE ❤️THE ART!!!!!!!! RT if u also ❤️ art!!!
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Reviewing first proofs of LeWitt Generator Generator physical prints. These are gifts to collectors of my
@artblocks_io
project!
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Today,
@Sothebys
opens auction of my artwork, "Digital Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility Series 0, No. 10"
Auction runs until Oct 26. Info on the sale, resources about the project, and thanks to longtime supporters follow...
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It has been an absolute joy watching people enjoy The Boys of Summer.
Watching you all playing the game, come up with stories about your statistical outputs, sharing them online and ruminating on what it all means...
I could not have dared dream of a better day.
But I just
Got a sneak preview of
@mitchellfchan
's Boys of Summer, with my very own "honorary" named Goose Derringer (der-RINGER), and I have to say it was an emotional experience. The first play through legitimately made me feel depressed.
It made me reflect a lot on life, and the way we
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FULL DETAILS on Boys of Summer dropped today in this
@decryptmedia
article!
⚾️what is this project about?
⚾️how does it work
⚾️WEN? (Release date on
@wildxyz
)
🖼️out-of-band PFP output preview
🎥Gameplay video (warning: spoilers!)
ITS ALL IN THERE👇
'Moneyball' Meets Crypto in 'Boys of Summer' Experimental NFT Game
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A technical thing about The Boys of Summer that maybe you didn't realize:
The game itself – the central artwork in this entire project – is a unique 1/1 token.
The game runs in-wallet, & includes a feature allowing the game token owner to write to the game itself.
It was
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Many thanks to
@FingerprintsDAO
,
@Sothebys
, and everyone -- EVERYONE -- who has supported me through this crazy journey. I'm completely overwhelmed.
#AuctionUpdate
Digital Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility sells for $1,532,500 USD. It is one of the first blockchain-based artworks to situate the technology within a longer history of conceptual art and its discourse of dematerialization.
#NativelyDigital
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Absolutely amazing time at the 3-day
@wildxyz
retreat in New Orleans. Best art event ever and if you’re lucky enough to be invited to next year’s, for heavens sake DO IT.
Alpha: it’s 90% artists, with a peppering of wonderful and smart curators and a very select few collectors.
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🚨🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🖼️🚨
The (probably) largest acquisition of NFTs into the permanent collection of a major American museum.
🎊IT JUST HAPPENED. Quietly. 🤫
❓Guess the museum, and the artists collected...
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5 YEARS AGO TODAY I released Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, or IKB.
IKB connects conceptual art & blockchain. It posits crypto as harbinger of a fully dematerialized world, & conceptualism as a tool for understanding it.
in the 5 years since release...🧵1
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✍️"The Boys of Summer is profound, its technical complexity matched by its conceptual intricacy—made accessible through the essence of the game"✍️
The wonderful
@Lucy2Scribbles
and
@nbakercahill
offer brilliant insight on BOS in this review
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So many haters — I can only presume they came from Web2 — they said to me: you can’t shoot the rock after you’ve been in an exhibition with Marcel Duchamp.
They said that as soon as you win the World’s Biggest Art Prize(TM) you’ll lose your skills on the hardwood.
Abolish
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It’s a great honour to see my work mentioned in Artforum! The article also reinforces some of the ideas that I was exploring with the Digital Zones back in 2017: namely the connections between: conceptual art & tokenization; monetary policy & abstraction.
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🕹️🖼️Boys of Summer⚾️📈 was named in
@outland_art
’s “Best Digital Art of 2023” feature!
I was so humbled by the reception this project received this year. Thank you all for your support! Working hard to follow this up with something worthy in 2024!
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Installation shot of Digital Zone no. 6 currently on display at
@ArtSciMuseum
in Singapore.
Many thanks to
@claracxw
I love the sealed laptop.
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Excited to announce SOLANA Digital Zones...
it's exactly like Digital Zones, but if you burn one it turns off the entire Solana network for 24 hours making the artwork TRULY immaterial.
/joking
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The sheer *magnitude* of this new era... you're not gonna believe the magnitude of it!
A truly magnitudinous era, perhaps the MOST magnitudinous era of all time, is nearly upon us.
The Threshold of Entering.
[takemymoney.gif]
If you believe the hype of artificial intelligence has come to an end, you're greatly mistaken. We are on the threshold of entering a new era of unprecedented magnitude.
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“this is, for better and for worse, the craziest show on view in Venice right now.”
My crypto ppl in Venice… if you wanna come see this with me, meet up outside the
@brtmoments
mint space at noon tomorrow. Open invite.
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My biggest concern about the long-term health of the NFT space: We need to build more infrastructure to reward writers, developers, curators, community organizers, and designers who create CULTURAL VALUE.
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8 months after releasing them on
@artblocks_io
, going through 140 prints of my pieces to sign and send to collectors (finally!) I was really struck by how much I enjoyed experiencing these works anew as ink on paper...
🧶/1
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This video is a great 2-min introduction to my most massive project ever. The ideas, innovative mechanics, and aesthetics of Boys of Summer.
🔊 INTERVIEW with
@mitchellfchan
🔊
Coming to you from Toronto, we talked to Mitch about ‘The Boys of Summer,’ his upcoming artwork debuting on Wild on August 16. Tune in to hear all about the collection, how it works, and why you won’t want to miss this. ⚾
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Here are some Punks and Meebits beside some 17th-century PFPs. Profile pics as status symbols? Surely you jest, ser!
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This is an excellent, must-read essay on the work of
@mathcastles
at
@outland_art
It deftly explains the complicated technical foundation of the work, AND the brilliant artistic proposition that Mathcastles extracts from that tech.
👏👏👏
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1/🧵 : ON ROYALTIES :
This is a proposed extension to ERC721 which grants NFT creators the ability to deny specific marketplaces or smart contracts the ability to spend tokens on an owner's behalf.
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You know what’s great about Sol LeWitt sculptures?
The fact that he kind of sucks at making sculptures!!
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Anyone wanna join a Low-Commitment Art Book Club with me?
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Today, a limited edition of 101 physical copies of the Blue Paper entered production.
Each edition consists of:
- hardcover book
- physical "Cachet de Garantie"
- clamshell case
Book & case are all bound by hand. Cachet de Garantie is riso printed.
All hand signed&numbered .
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When people think about blockchain landscapes, I want them to think about
@mathcastles
Terraforms, rather than Otherdeeds, because I'm proud of being part of the same avant-garde as Terraforms, and I want the public to see how smart and insightful art on blockchain can be.
👇
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In 1 hour,
@billyrennekamp
,
@travess
,
@matto__matto
and I are soft-launching a new live YouTube show, called Art & Videogames.
This week, we'll be playing Mountain and Everything by David OReilly while talking about art for 2 hours.
Will post the stream link when we go live.
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I am deeply interested in both art-video-games and fictional art. I began my current WIP hoping I could make a contribution to both fields. But then I saw this and it seems like perfection and there's nothing left to say and now I don't know what to do with my life.
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Submitted to the
@Optimism
We♥️ the Art Competition (1 of 1 category):
Web 3 Buddha
A fully interactive digital painting.
Rumination, self-discovery, and meditation.
Networked. Optimized. Gamified. Spiritualized.
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🟦The Blue Paper - Deluxe Limited Edition 🟦
Free for IKB holders.
Snapshot: November 1, 2022.
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How do you not love Timothy Thomas here?
First of all, the baby phat. (Fun Alpha: chubby characters are more likely to play catcher or 1st base in the Boys of Summer game)
The freckles... the unibrow.
And his (randomly-generated) name is TIMOTHY THOMAS.
Adorable.
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A wonderful profile of
@hollyherndon
&
@matdryhurst
and their important, thoughtful work in AI.
I feel lucky that we have these people.
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1/3 Delighted to announce that my heavily-teased new work — my first release in 1.5 years — will be released November 21st as part of “Peer-to-Peer”, the first major American museum survey of blockchain artists (according to NYT) …
I’ve been teasing this, but holding off on a big thread until we could announce the full artist list. Which is now! 😃
Over the past year, I’ve been working for the
@BuffaloAKG
on the first US museum survey of the leading artists who have engaged with blockchain technologies.
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My Digital Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility No. 10 will be featured in Sotheby’s ‘Natively Digital v1.2’ Auction.
#NativelyDigital
is back!
Sotheby’s is proud to welcome our second dedicated NFT sale - 'Natively Digital 1.2: The Collectors.'
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Don't create "Project Roadmaps."
Create a transparent and demonstrable 15-year history of genuinely giving a shit about your art, its legacy, and the people who support it. Then just keep doing what feels right.
This is also a good substitute for "Utility."
Reviewing first proofs of LeWitt Generator Generator physical prints. These are gifts to collectors of my
@artblocks_io
project!
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Argh argh argh I know I should be investing much more time and energy gambling on memecoins and ponzichains but instead I'm stupidly building art-adjacent stuff to give away for free. NGMI.
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@artblocks_io
TORONTO Meet-up:
From L:
@mal_levy
@_deafbeef
@carlagannis
@dmitricherniak
@mitchellfchan
@lm_netwebs
(just outside frame)
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🟦The first Digital Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility (IKB) was minted August 30, 2017. Monday will be the 4-year anniversary of the project. To mark this occasion, I will be putting Digital Zone Series 0, number 17 up for auction on OpenSea.🟦
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A gift for owners of Lewitt Generator Generator:
I'm giving away 75 signed physical prints to holders.
Each edition will 11x14, printed to the highest quality standards, and signed by hand under an embossed seal of authenticity.
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To people saying that reviews, by
@jerrysaltz
and others, of the
@MuseumModernArt
's recent NFT-adjacent exhibit are unduly harsh and even mean-spirited:
I think...
👇🧵
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Exciting exhibition news:
🖼️🕹️Boys of Summer🧠⚾️ – your favourite Conceptual PFP Sports Management Fine Art NFT – will in Tokyo in January as part of the exhibition "Proof of X - Decoding PFP Culture"
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I felt so much appreciation and validation reading this essay by
@KevinBuist
for
@outland_art
.
This is the perfect explainer of everything that I have been working towards for the past 7 years.
It's wonderful feeling when a writer does this amount of research, clearly spends
𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠
Before
@mitchellfchan
takes the reigns as the next
#OutlandGuestEditor
, we commissioned critic
@KevinBuist
to profile him.
Read on to learn more about the artist as we enter our issue on
#GAMES
~
📰:
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Today my newest artwork, "LeWitt Generator Generator" will be released on
@artblocks_io
. Anybody interested, pls take the time to read this essay about the history of ideas referenced in this work, and inherent in the Art Blocks platform itself.
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This weekend, the
@nfcastle
exhibition and gala in Prague showed us the PERFECT model for how traditional art institutions can embrace and adopt NFTs.
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After far too long standing on the sidelines as a conscientious objector, I have finally made the brave decision to enter the Culture Wars. Specifically, it’s time to call out one of biggest villains in this or any other space:
@steviepxyz
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A special issue of
@outland_art
about ... 🖼️🕹️GAMES🎮 kicks off with this essay I wrote about why I think games are an essential medium for contemporary art.
This was a really important essay for me to write. It marks the first time since I started making games that I actually
𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 | 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞
Today we’re thrilled to embark on our special issue on
#GAMES
👾🎮
Now online,
#OutlandGuestEditor
@mitchellfchan
introduces the issue with a discussion of agency as an artistic medium.
📰:
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And of course, the Doge Room. I won't pretend this was the *most* educational of all the curatorial set-ups, but it was damn fun. And it turns out that having fun is a great way to get people interested in whatever culture you're coming from.
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WOW!!! Congratulations to
@receiptburner
, AKA Elizabeth Puentes, who just became the FIRST character to make the pros and WIN the World Series.
Sort by "Championship" attribute. as of right now, this is the only character with a ring.
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@______jpg______
You are walking, talking, shitposting human grails and I want to maxbid my love and appreciation for everything you have done and will do. You have propped up the floor of my heart & I hope we 3,3 our friendship forever. JPG will never die, it can only nest.
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Many thanks to
@huuep
for his continued support of my work!
I am so pleased that this project continues to resonate among those searching for meaning in the blockchain.
I won an auction at Sotheby's!
I was able to win because the current NFT market of buyers is both small and fearful. It's a great time for collectors who DYOR and know what to look for, especially in the NFT art market.
The NFT I won, an IKB, is one of the most historic and
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One of the best parts of being guest editor for the
@outland_art
games issue was talking to other artists about games.
Out today:
@dmitricherniak
,
@0x113d
,
@heaven_computer
, and curator Noor Alé talk about Zelda, Mario Kart, and ... QQL (!)
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ALMOST finished my last (for a while) public art project. 3 years in the making!!!
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I am delighted that my project Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility is currently on display at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, alongside work by
@isthisanart_
,
@rheaplex
,
@aaronpenne
,
@jonas_lund
,
@tylerxhobbs
,
@dennnnnnnnny
and others:
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So excited to be in LA and presenting at NFTuesday tonight with
@lm_netwebs
. We're going to have an amazing double-header for you all.
COME OUT AND SEE US!
And we flew in all the way from Canada, so you may not get the chance to see us again anytime soon!
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A lot of what I am seeing on my TL is not aligned with this supposedly more 'open' 'decentralised' art world people claim to be building. Genuinely puzzling to me that you expect everyone to like the same kind of art, or if they don't, it can only be because they don't get it
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this rare bad review is less offensive – and less harmful – than its opposite number: the market-manipulation-masquerading-as-art-criticism that is *everywhere.* The constant shilling of thoughtless projects. The 1000s of tweets calling the latest ordinal copypasta "iconic."
👇
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I nearly pulled my neck nodding in agreement with this article by
@ZacharyHSmall
.
It's no surprise museums struggle to present video games, when they've been struggling to present other time-based media art for half a century.
I think...
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Last week, I was able to present the very first Artist Proof of the Blue Paper to the winner of last month's Sotheby's auction:
@Meta4Capital
. This artist proof was a way to say thank you to the (incredibly cool, smart and kind) team at Meta4 for their support.
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Good thread down here, with contributions from lots of voices I respect.
For my part, I agree with this statement, and am also optimistic that our unimaginative obsession with art- for-printers will end in good time...
Most NFT art is unconsciously copying physical art.
Almost everything is a 2D rectangle in approximately the dimensions that would make sense in a physical gallery.
It is natural at this first stage but eventually will look quaint.
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A1) I am optimistic that collectors and artists will expand their recognition of (and appetite for) generative processes embedded in other media, like animation and games.
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1/Announcing…
The Most Personal bonus content I’ve ever released: ⚾️The Boys of SummerSlam💪!
2 teams compete in Boys of Summer using
@prtyDAO
🇨🇦🇨🇦 vs 🇩🇪🇵🇹🇫🇷
Open to join until Friday 4PM ET:
Choose a team, play, & compete to win prizes.
Info👇🧵
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THIS IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
20 days till the release of my new work.
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Excited to record with
@elliotrades
today for an episode of his show! Thanks for inviting me on!
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I am extremely disappointed that the smart and vivacious
@saintsoftness
has chosen not to participate in The Boys of Summer.
But I REALLY respect the way she self-reported here.
AVM is now the second person/institution (after
@MuseeLouvre
) to be disqualified from playing BOS
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Tomorrow at 5pm I'll be releasing a demo of my next project, titled "Beggars Belief."
Beggars Belief is a series of artworks and exhibitions wrapped inside short, interactive fictions.
You can follow the project's Twitter account here:
@Initials_BeBe
1/🧵
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⚾️🖼️Boys of Summer PFP 📸🤳Expansion Pack
Wanted to make something fun and practical for collectors to celebrate winning the
@Optimism
W❤️TA Competition, so here's a little utility.
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Did an episode of
@Unchained_pod
with
@laurashin
!
📢:
👉 the way NFTs build on the conceptual work of Yves Klein and Sol LeWitt.
👉 extreme opacity of the tradArt market vs extreme transparency of NFT market
👉 the origin stories of IKB and LGG
Perfect way to end the year!
Quote of the show: “NFTs represent a new kind of patronage model for artists… and every time the patronage model for art changes, art changes.” -
@mitchellfchan
, artist and NFT OG
Link:
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Payphone Token by
@_deafbeef
, 2024;
“A Coin In The Corner” by Micah Lexier, 2012
The first “minted” artwork I ever acquired, and the most recent. Together at last in an inconspicuous corner of my house.
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Preparing some PROBLEMATIC HOT TAKES for MaXiMuM eNgAgEmEnT
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Imagine what a new ultra-limited run PFP collection with legit fine art credentials would do…
⚾️⚾️⚾️
Over the last week, we've seen:
Milady up 28% (redacted remilio too)
Degods up 11%
Nakamigos up 38%
another punks derivative up a couple multiples
rektguy and pandas up 15-20%
WMVG swept and floor up to 20
Volume has been pretty anemic overall.
What are you looking at?
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I was so lucky to spend the afternoon chatting with these folks. Love talking to all of you. Can we do it again soon?
@harmvddorpel
@rheaplex
@kevinabosch
@sarahmeyohas
@dennnnnnnnny
@isthisanart_
@annaridler
@thisaintanika
@verticalcrypto
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1/ It is with great joy that I present these personalized Championship Rings to the Canadian Indie NFT torch bearers who triumphed over the European Fine Art NFT army to claim the first ever Boys of SummerSlam Tournament.
👀🧵👇
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The final 20 Digital Zones remaining in the original 2017 contract will be released August 18. Exact time is buried in this post: about the purchasing process, and why I had to change the date.
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TY❤️ Here is what ambition means to me:
Technical ambition: I still develop solo, with no team or assistants, because I have an ambition to understand my medium on a micro level as well as conceptual level. I can do this with modest tools and the biggest challenge is to get my
@_deafbeef
Ambition works in many ways. And is of many forms. Pushing the boundaries of what is art and what tech can do for it is highly ambitious. And i think by that metrics, you,
@heaven_computer
,
@mitchellfchan
and othets of the same category would be the most ambitious ones.
So tired
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I'm about to go live on 100 PROOF with
@eli_schein
and
@proof_xyz
. talking about Boys of Summer and LOTS MORE. Gonna be a great convo! via
@YouTube
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Huge congratulations and appreciation to
@matdryhurst
and
@hollyherndon
on having:
- the vision to see what was coming
- the commitment to developing tools *ahead of time*
- the generosity to share those tools with other artists.
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So appreciative of all the excitement building up for this project. This time from
@FingerprintsDAO
, the single largest collector of my Digital Zones work from 2017!
We're looking forward to
@mitchellfchan
's new release "The Boys of Summer" on
@wildxyz
. An interactive game artwork (and PFP collection), it investigates our "world's favorite pastime" — no, not baseball, but the "quantification of self".
Learn more:
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