Ethereum), but for artists and collectors, the processes and results of these competing cryptocurrencies are fairly similar. Many conference participants held strong beliefs about the superiority of a particular blockchain (Bitcoin vs. Worse, an increasingly powerful cadre of middlemen services (Amazon, Spotify, etc.) have been fracturing the media landscape while reaping almost all of the profits.Įnter the blockchain, a decentralized and immutable ledger of digital transactions with the power to reintroduce scarcity and property rights to the digital-media economy. Because people can copy and share files freely and infinitely, artists don’t receive compensation for their work.
They were certain that blockchain technology would reshape the future of digital art for years to come.Īll the panels shared an underlying premise: The rise of digital media has made every kind of art widely accessible, but it has also created many problems. Like many tech events, the aim of the conference was ambitious bordering on grandiose: the attendees of Rare AF believed they were witnessing history.
Rare pepe the frogs free#
This unlikely crowd (mostly young men, though I heard one audience member marvel at “all the women” present) had gathered for panel discussions, demos, an initial-coin-offering announcement, free sandwiches, and a live digital-art auction. The organizers, Kevin Trinh and Tommy Nicholas of the Rare Art Registry Exchange, had announced the event only a few weeks earlier, but by midmorning, the airy coworking space was swarming with crypto boosters and speculators, gamers, meme aficionados, artists, and collectors. The first Rare Digital Art Festival, aka Rare AF, aka Rare as Fuck, was held on a cold January Saturday in the offices of Rise New York.
Digital art collection by artists from dada.nyc
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