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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | Artists have been dealing with technological changes and expressing the visceral feelings of inhabiting new technological moments for a very long time. |
0:10.0 | As a person who is looking at the history of artists designing for particular mediums, |
0:15.0 | you could do stuff with mobile and social that you couldn't do before. |
0:19.0 | I think the notion that Pop Art proposed that your role as an artist is to describe how it |
0:24.4 | feels to occupy that contemporary world and you're not an ethical agent it's just |
0:27.9 | like I go into the street and I see a giant billboard and it does something to my |
0:31.4 | heart and that is culture. |
0:33.7 | When they look at NFTs for the first time, I think a lot of them saw outsider art. |
0:39.1 | One of the interesting things about blockchain as a medium I think is that the cultural asset and the financial |
0:44.0 | container is the same thing. Throughout history art has helped us make sense of |
0:49.4 | the most exciting and mystifying technology of the day. |
0:53.3 | And simultaneously, technology has constantly rewritten |
0:56.7 | how we express our creativity. |
0:58.9 | Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was influenced by his new understanding of anatomy. Meanwhile, the industry. example was |
1:05.0 | welcomed by the industry welcomed by images of foreign machines |
1:08.0 | that would forever change society. |
1:10.0 | And cameras, then browsers, then browsers, |
1:12.0 | then browsers, then phones, gave artists new canvases to create with. |
1:16.0 | Over and over, art and technology have evolved hand in hand. |
1:21.0 | And of course, today is no different. In fact, artists are not just |
1:25.2 | creating work about the blockchain, but also on the blockchain, with Web3 changing the way |
1:30.6 | artists can monetize their work. |
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