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    Christie’s and Sotheby’s accept cryptocurrencies for physical works

    News from the digital and NFT world – 28 JUNE 2021

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    Christie’s and Sotheby’s accept cryptocurrencies for physical works

    Famous auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s have announced that they will accept payment in Ether or Bitcoin cryptocurrencies for important physical objects and works.

    Sotheby’s inaugurates this novelty with its upcoming Luxury Edit single lot live auction, which will be held on July 9 in Hong Kong and during which a 101.38 carat D-color diamond will be sold. The object, estimated at between $ 10 million and $ 15 million, has already reached very high bids.

    “It is a truly symbolic moment. The oldest and most emblematic denominator of value can now, for the first time, be bought using humanity’s newest universal currency. There has never been a better time to bring a world-class diamond like this to market, “said Wenhao Yu, vice president of jewelry at Sotheby’s Asia.

    Christie’s, on the other hand, will put up for sale at the London to Paris auction on 30 June a prestigious painting by Keith Haring, estimated at between $ 5.4 million and $ 6.2 million, ready to win the hearts of collectors.

    Digitale e Musei: i numeri post lockdown

    Digitale e Musei: i numeri post lockdown

    Uno studio spiega quanto e come i musei italiani hanno utilizzato il digitale durante la pandemia

    L’80% dei musei italiani nel 2020 ha prodotto almeno un contenuto online. Lo rivelano le indagini condotte dall’Osservatorio Innovazione Digitale nei Beni e Attività Culturali della School of Management del Politecnico di Milano.

    Tra il 2020 e l’inizio del 2021 i musei hanno avviato un processo di digitalizzazione senza precedenti, utilizzando piattaforme digitali, siti web e social network per promuovere contenuti, mostre, tour guidati e programmi.

    Come si legge nel report, il potenziamento delle attività digitali dei musei è stato inversamente proporzionale rispetto ai numeri della crisi che, come mostra il Report Deloitte, equivale ad una pesante riduzione delle entrate della  biglietteria (56%).

    Tra le attività digitali, i musei hanno prevalentemente offerto laboratori e attività didattiche (il 48%), tour e visite guidate (45%) e podcast (13%). 

    Molti musei hanno reso fruibili le proprie collezioni sul proprio sito web con numeri che vanno dal 40% del 2020 al 70% del 2021.

    Grande conquista per i musei è stato il sito web e un account social: oggi il 95% dei musei italiani ha un proprio sito web, e l’83% un account ufficiale sui social.

    Numerose le piattaforme digitali utilizzate per ottimizzare i servizi rivolti al pubblico, soprattutto per la prenotazione delle visite e l’acquisto dei biglietti online (dal 23% al 39%).

    “Grazie al digitale”, commenta Michela Arnaboldi, Responsabile Scientifico dell’Osservatorio Innovazione Digitale nei Beni e Attività Culturali, “si è aperta l’opportunità di ripensare il rapporto con l’utente come un’esperienza estesa, nel tempo e nello spazio, in quanto non confinata al luogo e al momento dell’esperienza in loco, ma potenzialmente continua e accessibile da qualsiasi luogo e in qualunque momento”.

    Nel corso dei lockdown la maggior parte dei musei ha scelto di offrire i propri contenuti digitali gratuitamente: questa strategia si è rivelata ottimale per aumentare l’engagement, usare l’online come stimolo per la visita fisica o per ottenere informazioni sul pubblico da poter utilizzare per attività di marketing.

    Il 22% dei musei, invece, ha sperimentato modelli a pagamento, attraverso la vendita di attività didattiche o tour virtuali (13%) e/o di un pacchetto di servizi come corsi e podcast (9%). 

    In generale il pubblico ha apprezzato sia i contenuti digitali gratuiti (86%), sia quelli a pagamento (62%).

     “Oggi sembrerebbe raggiunta la diffusa consapevolezza che fisico e digitale non si escludano a vicenda, ma che piuttosto siano l’uno il complemento dell’altro”, spiega Eleonora Lorenzini, Direttore dell’Osservatorio Innovazione Digitale nei Beni e Attività Culturali. “Se però nel primo periodo di emergenza era accettabile un certo livello di approssimazione nella produzione di contenuti digitali, occorre ora investire su prodotti realizzati ad hoc e sulle competenze necessarie per la loro realizzazione, gestione e promozione.” 

    Solo il 24% delle istituzioni sono dotate di un piano strategico che comprende anche l’innovazione digitale. 

    Tuttavia, si sta dimostrando sempre più necessaria una pianificazione di interventi per affrontare un futuro incerto, ma ricco di prospettive per chi saprà adeguatamente strutturarsi per coglierle.

    E tu, sei pronto a conoscere il futuro digitale dei musei in Italia?

    First NFT on SuperRare by the hyperrealist artist Dascanio

    News from the digital and NFT world – 22 JUNE 2021

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    First NFT on SuperRare by the hyperrealist artist Dascanio 

    The hyperrealist artist Emanuele Dascanio put his first NFT work up for auction on the SuperRare marketplace.

    With over 20 years of experience in the pictorial field, Dascanio opted for digital experimentation, thus giving life to a work dedicated to the Crypto field, entitled “Sublimi Ingenio. YOU are a NFT. “

    “In my vision the sublime is the maximum change of a state”, says the artist, “the blockchain, the work of Satoshi Nakamoto, is a shining example: fragments of code chained in an order that transforms societies unstoppable is the story.”

    Dascanio was also selected by the giant Binance for the launch of the new marketplace dedicated to NFT works of art, which will take place on June 24th.

    “Being out of the comfort zone so much allowed me to untie myself from my brand as a hyperrealist artist to enter a world of extreme liquid creativity”, said the artist, “I love to destroy myself to rebuild myself, I love the challenge”.

    What will then be the next challenges of the Crypto world?

    Sotheby’s sells NFTs of the World Wide Web

    News from the digital and NFT world – 22 JUNE 2021

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    Sotheby’s sells NFTs from the World Wide Web

    Sotheby’s London recently announced that it is ready to sell an NFT of the original World Wide Web source code, conceived and developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

    The original files will be auctioned along with a 30-minute video in which Berners-Lee covered the entire code creation process and a digital poster of the code with his signature.

    With a base bid of just $ 1,000, the entire lot will be sold in an online auction titled “This Changed Everything” to be held on the auction house’s website from June 23 through June 26.

    “Over the past few centuries, humanity has seen a succession of paradigm shifts that have carried us forward into the modern era; Evidence of Galileo’s heliocentrism, Gutenberg’s invention of printing and Einstein’s theory of relativity to name but a few, “says Cassandra Hatton, head of Sotheby’s science and pop culture division,” but none have had the impact. seismic in our daily lives as the creation of the World Wide Web ”.

    The CADAF art fair promotes digital works on Instagram

    News from the digital and NFT world – 22 JUNE 2021

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    The CADAF art fair promotes digital works on Instagram

    The contemporary and digital art fair (CADAF) founded in 2019 and now in its second online edition, has intensified and strengthened its online and social presence, also inserting QR codes and AR filters to promote the Crypto Art works present at the fair .

    CADAF, characterized by deep technological roots, launched this month in Paris the “month of digital art”, a physical event curated by Jess Conatser of Studio As We Are that offers the opportunity for visitors to see digital works of art in the spaces audiences by scanning QR codes and AR filters, designed in collaboration with a variety of artists.

    “We started Digital Art Month during the pandemic as a way to connect the general public to this new and interactive medium that allows for safe interactions and at the same time mixes your reality with that of the artists,” says Andrea Steuer, director of the fair. In addition to allowing interaction with the work, Instagram plays a crucial role in promoting and selling the artists present at the fair: “Instagram is very important to us, we use it as a tool for communicating and building communities with the artists”, declares Steuer, “and it is also one of the most important sales platforms for art with research showing that around 80% of art buyers go to Instagram to discover new artists.”

    Robert Wilson is selling a video portrait of Lady Gaga as an NFT

    News from the digital and NFT world – 21 JUNE 2021

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    Robert Wilson is selling a video portrait of Lady Gaga as an NFT

    Renowned theater director and artist Robert Wilson recently coined a 2013 video portrait of pop star Lady Gaga as NFT, his first ever.

    The piece features the cantate in a live-action reinterpretation of the painting “The Death of Marat” by the French artist Jacques – Louis David.

    “GAGA / MARAT,” as the work is called, will go on sale at Phillip’s “20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale” on June 24 in New York, with offers starting at a base of $ 100.

    The work, which depicts Lady Gaga in the role of the well-known French journalist killed during the Revolution for his anti-monarchical positions, changes slowly, transforming itself from a fixed image into a moving one.

    Meanwhile, in the background it is possible to hear the voice of the pop star herself as she recites a poem based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade.

    The original video is part of a series of portraits that Wilson made of Lady Gaga based on subjects from the Louvre: in addition to the homage to David, the American artist portrayed the singer as Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, from a painting of 1806 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and in the head of St. John the Baptist, taken from a canvas by Andrea Solari of 1507.

    Crypto Art on display in Milan at the Cambi auction house

    News from the digital and NFT world – 18 JUNE 2021

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    Crypto Art on display in Milan at the Cambi auction house 

    Dystopian Visions is the name of the NFT collection that will be exhibited in the physical headquarters of Cambi Casa d’Aste in Milan starting from 25 June, and in parallel through an online exhibition on the Arium virtual space.

    For this project, Cambi has started a collaboration with the SuperRare platform, one of the best known and most appreciated in the Crypto Art scene.

    Eighteen Italian digital artists were selected for the exhibition curated by Serena Tabacchi, co-founder of the MoCDA and conceived by the Design Art Studio, a consulting company that organizes the auctions of the Design Department of the Cambi auction house.

    Among them artists such as Mattia Cuttini and Fabiano Speziari – together – Annibale Siconolfi, Giusy Amoroso and Giuseppe Lo Schiavo to name a few. The proposal will be representative of the movement and the national art scene, and will deal with topics linked to a utopian and dystopian future, recurring topucs dear to the artists of the movement that reveal a widespread sentiment in times of social distance and ethereal communications.

    “The Dystopian Visions operation is a bridge between the digital world and that of institutional places of art, to combine skills and respond to different needs” says Bruno Pitzalis, coordinator of the project: “the curatorial figure plays a fundamental role in this phase initial, as a guide to reading a digital work of art in the vast offer available. “

    Il Museum of Crypto Art annuncia i nomi del comitato di selezione

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    Il Museum of Crypto Art annuncia i nomi del comitato di selezione 

    Il MOCA, Museum of Crypto Art, ha annunciato i nomi dei 9 membri che andranno a comporre il nuovo Museum Artist Council

    Gli artisti coinvolti sono: Arc4g, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Robness, Fabin Rasheed, Matt Kane, Sparrow Red, Hackatao, Osinachi e Sarah Zucker

    La commissione è stata formata sulla base della grande esperienza di questi artisti nel mondo della Crypto Art, e le loro funzioni principali consistono nel valutare quali nuove opere NFT entreranno a far parte della collezione permanente del Museo.

    Inoltre collaboreranno nella creazione di eventi che si andranno ad aggiungere alla storia della Crypto Art e a sostegno di cambiamenti significativi anche a nome di altri artisti. 

    Il 50% dei fondi del MOCA è infatti destinato all’acquisizione di nuove opere e l’Artist Council avrà un ruolo predominante nella decisione.

    The Sandbox and the sale of NFT

    The Sandbox and the sale of NFT

    Also created, a $2 million fund to help emerging artists

    The Sandbox, an online metaverse where players can build and sell buildable land in exchange for a cryptocurrency called $Sand, has launched its own sales platform for NFT works and crypto artists. 

    A real marketplace that offers digital artists the opportunity to sell their works at the desired price and to receive almost the entire amount earned: in fact, the artists will receive 95% of the gain, while the remaining 5% will return to the so-called Creator Fund, a fund of over $2 million dollars that will finance new talents who will become part of the platform. 

    The Sandbox opens up to exhibitions and artistic performances, and as it happens for its well-established game experiences, also in this case the owner of the lot where the exhibition of NFT works takes place will be able to decide whether to sell it or, for example, to charge a ticket to visit it just like it would happen in a museum or a gallery. 

    Paintings, posters, statues, and artistic productions among the most diverse will be made with the use of Game Maker software, thanks to which you can create 3D virtual spaces, or through Voxel Art, another software of this metaverse and art form in which every object is made of tiny cubes called voxels or volumetric pixels. Artists and game makers will be able to create all those useful items in the game arena, but above all they will be able to make money from them. 

    For the opening of the marketplace, numerous artists were selected including 3D graphic designers, creative artists, voxel designers, illustrators and pioneers of this new form of digital art and the Italian artist duo Hackatao was the first to experiment with the metaverse by building their own game experience. 

    The Sandbox therefore promises to be not only one of the possible futures for gaming or a virtual dimension of existence, but also the springboard for a new form of real estate market, sociality and sharing and especially for the new artistic currents of our time. 

    The first NFT Art Fair in New York

    News from the digital and NFT world – 16 JUNE 2021

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    The first NFT Art Fair in New York

    NFT Art Fair is the name of the exclusive public event of Crypto works only recently inaugurated in New York.

    Conceived by Cube Art Fair, the exhibition features numerous works created by artists such as Kelly Fischer, Tigi Van Gil, Griet Van Malderen, Carolyn Joe and Rubem Robierb.

    The NFTs are projected on a huge screen positioned on a building in the iconic Times Square and each job is accompanied by a QR code that refers to a platform where you can make the purchase. “We create an engaging visual experience and an opportunity for the public to discover NFT artworks beyond their screens, while also providing artists with a platform to access a broader market, “said Gregoire Vogelsang, founder of Cube Art Fair,” we are using technology to empower artists and empower them to take control of their art and careers “