Outland & Hans Ulrich Obrist
5 comments mishaSubmitter Funny to see the whole NFT space vogue for days about that they’re in a book. I guess traditional media still hold the power.  One part of me wonders about the contradiction of documenting NFTs in a book, but the other part knows that it might be the only archival medium through which future archeologists could research NFTs -- or videos and games (e.g. Vitruvius). mishaSubmitter The book is introducing the beauty of fine art NFT to a wider public beyond the crypto Twitter dungeons. And surely artists in the end crave institutional recognition. But a bit of punk dies with it. What is ironic, and that’s why I think it’s funny, in the respect of art and the blockchain, is that the blockchain is supposed to be this thing that will make your work last forever, but in the end the trialed and proven books still hold that key. Indeed, maybe we should have something like the long now clock (https://longnow.org/clock/) for the blockchain. Or an Ethereum archive node in stainless steel every 12 months? Admittedly, that would only help with fully on-chain NFTs.  lol only 700€, a bargain xD |