In November 2022 Instagram announces the arrival of NFTs on the platform, but only 4 months later it backtracks. Why?
It was November 2, 2022 when a tweet from Meta announced the arrival of NFTs on Instagram only for US creators, guaranteeing zero gas fees for minting and the involvement of big names such as Refik Anadol and Olive Allen.
Just four months after the announcement, Instagram backtracked on NFTs via a Twitter thread by Stephane Kasriel – Leading Commerce & FinTech in Meta.
Some product news: across the company, we’re looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus. We’re winding down digital collectibles (NFTs) for now to focus on other ways to support creators, people, and businesses. 🧵[1/5]
In the tweet dated March 14, 2023, it is Kasriel who explains the reasons that led the company to disable all functions related to Non Fungible Tokens on the platform.
In particular, the possibility of creating and then minting their works in NFT via Facebook and Instagram, then giving creators the possibility to sell NFT to their community.
Among the Blockchain networks that had been announced were Polygon and Solana, with the use of the Phantom wallet.
“We’re looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus. We’re winding down digital collectibles (NFTs) for now to focus on other ways to support creators, people, and businesses” – announces Stephen Kasriel, then underlining how the company has the absolute priority of continuing to look for new ways to implement revenue economics of the creators.
But not through NFTs at this point.
No other reason has been provided, beyond this tweet, leaving a bad taste in the mouth of many who already work in Web3 and are active with their works on the major NFT sales platforms.
THE REACTIONS OF THE NFT COMMUNITY
Surprise, anger and disappointment: these are the feelings that characterized the NFT Community following the announcement.
But considering Meta’s recent losses, such as the one linked to Reality Lab – a division that works on the creation of AR and VR products – with a collapse of 13 billion dollars in 2022 and Meta’s dismissal of over 11,000 employees, they are not auspicious.
Instagram and Meta have not clarified in detail why they are backtracking on NFTs – and it is not clear whether financial losses are a relevant factor – what is certain is that a change of course is leading in other directions, but not towards road of Web3 and decentralization.
The Sound of Pixels. La mostra di Art Innovation Gallery a Hong Kong
After Milan, New York and Miami Beach Art Innovation Gallery arrives in Hong Kong!
On the occasion of Art Basel, Hong Kong is lit up with the works of more than 70 digital artists, the best on the international scene, including XCopy, Giovanni Motta, SeerLight, CryptoPunks, King Xerox, Terrell Jones, Pho, 0xdgb, Zhuk, Mannay, Tim Maxwell, Stefan Große Halbuer, JakNFT, Laurent Castellani, DotPigeon, Gelo, Pop Wonder, Creaction, Schauermann, Andrea Crespi, Alessandro D’Aquila, Melkio, Post Wook.
THE SOUND OF PIXELS will open in Hong Kong, from 17 to 23 March 2023. The exhibition is curated by Art Innovation Gallery, one of the first Italian galleries to organize international exhibitions with innovative curating using the world’s largest and most important screens, but now also in the space.
In this occasion Art Innovation Gallery announce a collaboration with Geometric Energy Corporation, who created the first-ever commercial lunar satellite in history paid entirely with DOGE – will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This space will be allocated to include digital art in the form of space plaques, and a selection of artwork curated by Art Innovation Gallery will travel in Earth orbit and lunar orbit. The payload will obtain lunar-spatial intelligence from sensors and cameras on-board with integrated communications and computational systems.
A preview of the visualization of the inside of the satellite, in orbit, showing the artwork, will be exhibited for the first time in Hong Kong.
THE SOUND OF PIXELS will bring the works of more than 70 digital artists to the over 70 by 20 meters LED screen and in the earth’s orbit and the moon’s orbit.
THE ARTISTS
They are drawn from more than 30 countries, including Italy, the United States, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Thailand, South Korea, China, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Brazil, France, the Netherlands and Australia. Most of the artists in the exhibition are curated by institutions in the art market system, for example, Christie’s and Sotheby’s New York, international museums and galleries.
THE SOUND OF PIXELS exhibition will feature the most prominent collectors in the Crypto Art industry: LandBaron555, Transient Labs and H.E. Zepump. This collaboration was created to further value artists and to make digital art collecting increasingly sustainable.
The billboard, in Hong Kong, will enable the full perception of digital artworks through sound reproduction.
The Gallery had more than 57 artists on show in the first exhibition that was held in Milan in Piazza Gae Aulenti during MiArt (Milan Art Week), the works were exhibited on 6 huge LED Walls with innovative shapes distributed in the square. In New York, in Times Square during The Armory Show, 56 other artists, from over 30 countries, were displayed on billboards more than 20 meters high by 30 meters wide. And in Miami Beach during the Art Basel more than 100 artists were displayed on a floating platform that produced more than 7 million views. Art Innovation Gallery have worked with over 300 artists, some of which are among the most influential in the world of crypto art and some are a selection of emerging new talents.
Francesca Boffetti, founder of Art Innovation Gallery said: “We are promoting the culture of Digital Art on Maxi LED walls all over the world, showing artists “on-chain” and in the major cities. Art Innovation goes beyond the concept of the physical space. It is in fact the first gallery to exhibit NFT in a traveling show, putting the artists in direct touch with the largest possible audience. Blockchain technology is the inevitable future, bringing trust and transparency to every user. It solves many problems, beginning with authentication, transparency of operations, historical provenance and copyright.”
Art Innovation Gallery was set up in 2022 to promote the best creative energies in the field of digital art by creating a program of international exhibitions. Moreover, in response to the new demands of collectors, during the show each work will be accompanied by a QR code to provide full information about the NFT.
Women protagonists in the art world in the form of NFTs: works, testimonials and objectives
As in many other sectors, women have gradually made their way into the NFT sector, especially in the art world. NFT is the acronym for Non Fungible Token, i.e. something unique that cannot be replaced by anything else. To this day, this market is constantly expanding and is sweeping the art world.
Women in the crypto and NFT sector: a few numbers
To date, women active in the crypto and NFT world are growing and expanding strongly. According to some data, in fact, the female share participating in the NFT world has quadrupled, up to 12% in the sector today.
As proof of the fact of how much women in the sector have numerically increased, just think that, until a few years ago, it was estimated that the female presence in the Blockchain and NFT sector stood at between 1% and 5% (even if he was already talking about growing numbers).
Furthermore, it emerges that in Europe the majority of participants working with Blockchain and NFTs are between the ages of 26 and 32 (36%). In Italy, there is a significant number of professionals in the sector, including over 50s, with a strong prevalence of women blockchain experts, especially in Central and Northern Italy.
Finally, it can be said that the most active women in the NFT sector are the British ones, following the traders in Germany. Not only that, a significant share of female traders are found in countries such as Slovenia, South Africa and Spain, while they are scarce in France, Italy and Switzerland. On the other hand, our country, together with the United Kingdom, has the largest share of young female traders, while France has, on average, the oldest.
Investments and works of women in Crypto Art
As regards the names of the women protagonists in works of art or investments in NFTs, there are currently numerous examples that can be reported. We see, in fact, Gracy Chen , Managing Director of Bitget , who was one of the first to invest in BitKeep , a wallet for cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Then, we have Eleonora Brizi , curator of digital art and crypto art, founder of Breezy Art. After spending six years in China where she worked as an assistant to the artist Ai Weiwei and the curator Jerome Sans, she moved to New York in 2018.
Again, Serena Tabacchi , who is the Director and Co-Founder of MoCDA , Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, born in London in 2019. She has worked at the TATE Modern and Tate Britain in London and has been the curator of some of the very first exhibitions, international NFT exhibitions and events, such as NFT London, CADAF and CI Bloom.
Digital 3D artist, Paola Pinna was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. After completing her Fine Art Digital studies at Camberwell College of Arts in London, she returned to Italy where she works as an artist, exhibiting both online and globally. Paola has also been part of the crypto art world since the beginning of 2021.
Finally, Amelia Tomasicchio, digital marketing expert, co-founder and director of The Cryptonomist. He helped launch two NFT projects called “The NFT Magazine” and “ Cryppo ” and wrote a book on NFTs for Mondadori. She was also an author for several crypto magazines abroad and CMO of Eidoo.
Digital art as a form of affirmation for women in the crypto sector
As already mentioned, one of the tools that seem to bring women closer to the digital world seems to be NFTs, an example is the “World of Women” collection by Yam Karkai . However, there are many and talented digital artists, their works bring the female audience closer to the blockchain and bring concrete help to associations or people in difficulty.
On July 27, 2021, digital artist Yam Karkai created World Of Women, a collection of NFTs on Ethereum . The collection consists of 10,000 unique pieces (in the form of ERC-721 tokens) created by the random combination of multiple characteristics. Karkai has chosen a model that mirrors that of the CryptoPunks and the Bored Apes Yacht Club, World of Women is ready to repeat the same success. World of Women, also referred to as WoW , is based on a system that combines individual attributes with different levels of rarity. Each NFT is unique and some features make them rarer than others.
In an interview Karkai said that for the skin colors she was inspired by Fenty Beauty, Rihanna’s brand, the first in the history of makeup to cover the most diverse skin colors for its products. Indeed, in WoW you can find women with different shapes to reflect all the facets of reality. The collection was born with the intention of balancing the female presence in the NFT market, of creating a community that celebrates inclusiveness, equal opportunities.
The NFT Magazine launches the first NFT artist book with Andrea Crespi
Andrea Crespi is the new protagonist of the monograph of The NFT Magazine, launching his first NFT artist book edited by Sandie Zanini.
It is all ready for the launch of the first NFT artist book!
Once again, the international monthly magazine to be collected on Ethereum, The NFT Magazine, launches a new publication that changes the rules of Publishing in Web3 and raises the bar.
The new CryptoArt Monograph together with the third issue 2k23 of The NFT Magazine , will be available with a double drop from March 6, 2023 at 2 PM ET , both on the Nifty Gateway platform, which will last 5 DAYS for both the COVER DROP and the BookDrop NFT.
THE FIRST NFT ARTIST BOOK
The third CryptoArt Monograph produced by The NFT Magazine becomes the first NFT artist book thanks to the intervention of Andrea Crespi.
An artist’s book is a real work of art, conceived by its creator in the form of a book but with all the characteristics of a work of art: original, unique and representative of artistic research.
In this sense, Andrea Crespi, the protagonist of the third CryptoArt Monograph, has interpreted the concept of an artist’s book by intervening with one of his unpublished works not only on the cover of the monograph but on all its pages.
Through a grid of lines – a primordial gesture of artistic creation – he traces the path to discover his art in the world of NFTs until he reveals the one who is hidden beneath those living lines: the timeless icon of the Mona Lisa.
But this new edition of CryptoArt Monograph takes on a new value: it becomes for the first time a phygital artist’s book , by its nature born as an NFT, it also finds space in the physical with the publication of the book.
WHO IS ANDREA CRESPI
Andrea Crespi is a visual artist whose work develops in the continuous investigation of different media and themes including optical illusion, social transformation, the digital revolution, identifying art as a tool for perception and analysis of truth through the search for beauty, sometimes manifesting itself in an intimate, personal and erotic portrait of him.
He is the third Crypto Artist featured in CryptoArt Monograph, carefully curated by curator and gallery owner Sandie Zanini, who has focused on new technologies and digital tools, pushing the boundaries on the role of galleries in this new era.
Andrea Crespi | CryptoArt Monograph is the first NFT ART BOOK, a real work of art.
Within this book, by piecing together a grid of 30 layered lines, readers will be able compose a work of art depicting one of the most iconic characters in the history of art: The Famous Lisa.
The time has come to tell the great Crypto Artists, their history, their artistic research, their digital works of art, the platforms and metaverses in which they operate.
The CryptoArt series Monograph by The NFT Magazine was created in collaboration with the most important and visionary curators to tell and “mark the time” of the evolution of Crypto Art today.
After the great international success of the book “CRYPTO ART – Begins ” born from the idea and project of The NFT Magazine, published by Rizzoli, the international magazine continues the research and curatorship work on the world of Crypto Art, still to be discovered.
Thanks to CryptoArt Monograph, The NFT Magazine reveals every month the great protagonists of the digital art scene in the WEB3.
Each artist creates an unpublished NFT associated with their monograph to read and collect, with the possibility of redeeming a limited edition physical book to overcome the boundaries of Web3 Publishing arriving at the collectors’ home as well as in the metaverse . Each NFT is distinguished by a unique smart contract for the Crypto Artist, Curators and Publishers to build the story and foundation of Crypto Art.
MEET Milano presents the works of HACKATAO on display
MEET Digital Culture Center presents Remix Me #4 special event on Thursday 9 March, an artistic project by the Crypto Art duo HACKATAO.
The REMIX ME art project was born from the collaboration of the pioneering Crypto Art duo Hackatao, together with the Piselli and Partners law firm and the curator EleonoraBrizi(Breezy Art), and features over 40 artists on the NFT Makersplace platform.
REMIX ME invites the Crypto Art creative community to explore the meaning and implications of remixing a work of art, aware that the “remix art” phenomenon is long-standing, but investigating it in its manifestation in the world of NFTs and their relationship to copyright and copyrights. The project does not necessarily set out to give answers, but rather to start (in 2021) and continue to develop (today) the debate, comparison and discussion.
NFT AND DYNAMIC TOKENS AS WORKS OF ART
All this through an artistic experiment where, starting from the original work of Hackatao REMIX ME, artists and creatives are invited to remix it and give their own vision of the work with the participation in three open-calls and suggesting a new perspective of regulation of recognized rights to artists and NFT owners. In turn, Hackatao will remix the remixes of their work, which will mutate its metadata within the NFT in which it was originally tokenized , using a special smart- contract named “Dynamic Token”. An NFT, therefore, that changes over time; an ever-evolving work of art.
Artistic collaboration, technology, new implications of intellectual property and copyright in the world of the web and the blockchain are all topics that will be discussed at MEET in a special evening. In a certain sense, MEET will also be “remixed” with a geo-localized augmented reality game inside and outside the building. As closing of the event, Hackatao will present the latest “Remix of Remix of Remix”.
The largest NFT event in Europe, returns on 24 and 25 February 2023 for a second edition at the Grand Palais with many protagonists
The largest event dedicated to NFTs in Europe, NFT Paris , will be held for its second year from 24 to 25 February 2023 at the Grand Palais.
NFT Paris is designed for professionals and enthusiasts of today’s cultural and economic revolution and offers a unique meeting place for NFT brands and players. The event aims to create a bridge to reinvent existing models and discuss upcoming trends in the NFT landscape.
NFT Paris Visual
NFT PARIS SECOND EDITION
The first edition of NFT Paris took place in January 2022. It was the first large-scale NFT event in Europe and brought together more than 800 participants at Station F. This year, the second edition of NFT Paris takes place in the most iconic of culture and the arts in France: the Grand Palais, located in the heart of the French capital – at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
This is an important event for the NFT community and for brands using this technology to reinvent themselves. The fair aims to bring together more than 8,000 players. In the heart of Paris, a real cultural bridge will be built and experts will share their vision and knowledge.
NFT Paris will serve as a discussion platform between NFT purists and the CEOs of leading pioneering brands committed to building the Web3, such as LVMH, L’Oréal, Shopify and Volkswagen. During these two days, attendees will hear from personalities from the NFT world and experts such as Nicolas Julia, founder and CEO of Sorare, Yat Siu, founder of Animoca Brands, Sébastien Borget, founder and COO of The Sandbox, Matt Medved (founder and CEO of NFT Now ), or Punk6529 (Founder of OM).
CRYPTO ART BEGINS
Among the booths participating in NFT Paris, there is also Breezy Art, a space for creative experimentation, an art and technology laboratory where people with different skills can experiment, share, leave a mark and help create the future together.
There will be four screens present at the stand and the artists and the art of the CRYPTOART BEGINS book will be among the protagonists, published by Rizzoli, an idea of The NFT Magazine which has entrusted the curatorship to Eleonora Brizi. A copy of the hardcover book will also be exhibited.
More and more major museums around the world are acquiring NFTs, digital artworks and Crypto Art. The latest to take the plunge are LACMA in Los Angeles and the Center Pompidou in Paris.
The month of February turned out to be the most important for the entry of NFTs into museums:
in fact, within a few weeks of each other, there are two large institutions that announce with conviction the acquisition or the important donations of Crypto Arte and Non Fungible Token.
Objective: to expand the permanent collection and organize exhibitions and dissemination events on a world yet to be discovered.
If in the field of Publishing and Web3 excellent research projects have been carried out on the movement of Crypto Art and its protagonists, first of all ” CRYPTO ART – Begins ” born from an idea of The NFT Magazine and published by Rizzoli, the large museum institutions have slowly approached.
But now the tide seems to have changed.
There are 5 major museums that have chosen to welcome NFT works donated by collectors or acquired by institutions in their art collections. Let’s find out who they are
Dmitri Cherniak, Ringers #962, 2021, .JPG delivered as an NFT, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, promised gift of The Cozomo de’ Medici Collection,
LACMA – LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
It is February 13, 2023 when the Los Angeles County Museum officially announces that it has received the donation of NFT works created on the Blockchain Ethereum network .
Works by 13 artists from around the world make up the donated core, and together they tell a “representative story of the Crypto Art movement , according to the museum’s announcement. Included are works by Justin Aversano, Cai Guo-Qiang , Dmitri Cherniak , Claire Silver, Neil Strauss, Monica Rizzolli , Matt DesLauriers , Adam Swaab , and Pindar Van Arman .
In addition to the donation from collector Cozomo de’ Medici , the LACMA Museum announced that the museum’s Board of Directors has approved the acquisition of 15 other works on Blockchain, including a John Gerrard Western Flag NFT and a Rocket Series NFT Factory by Tom Sachs, leading LACMA to own 37 NFT works.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS
The Center Pompidou has announced the acquisition of a series of 18 NFTs by 13 leading French and international artists. The works will become part of France’s national collection of modern and contemporary art.
The acquisition, the first by a major French public museum, is the result of a joint effort between the scientific and administrative teams of the French Ministry of Culture and the director of the Pompidou, Xavier Rey.
“ The Web3 is innovative territory that artists have now exploited to create original and bold work,” says Rey, “and this collection reaffirms our support for artists in their conquest of new means of expression, which is the foundation of art modern .” Artists whose NFTs have been acquired by the Pompidou are Aaajiao, Emilie Brout and Maxime Marion, Claude Closky, Fred Forest, John Gerrard, Agnieszka Kurant, Jonas Lund, Larva Labs, Jill Magid, Sarah Meyohas, Robness, Rafael Rozendaal and John F Simon Jr.
“ Cryptopunks represent innovation in art, identity and cultural archive . I am so pleased to support the experimentation in ICA Miami’s collection by contributing an important work that captures contemporary discourse and the evolution of artistic practice, ” said Eduardo Burillo , ICA Miami Trustee .
“ CryptoPunk 5293 joins the ICA Miami collection as a work that is truly representative of the cultural zeitgeist and will have historical significance for generations to come, reflecting ICA Miami’s commitment to foster an expansive understanding of contemporary art and cultural production in the 21st century. We are enormously grateful for Eduardo Burillo ‘s extraordinary vision and generosity with this historic gift to the museum , ” added ICA Miami Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld .
Still from Lynn Hershman Leeson‘s artwork
SFMOMA – SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
San Francisco’s MoMA has acquired its first NFT, a work entitled “ Final Transformation #2” by artist Lynn Hershman Leeson .
The final work Transformation #2 is a clip from Leeson ‘s 1997 film “ Conceiving Ada,” starring actress Tilda Swinton as mathematician Ada Lovelace , who wrote the first computer program in the 19th century .
Christopher Bedford , Director of MoMA San Francisco said: “These recent acquisitions represent an incredible range of artistic vision and capture SFMOMA’s commitment to collecting works by artists from around the world. I am grateful to the SFMOMA curatorial team for their vision and ongoing dedication to expanding the voices and narratives represented in our collection .”
There is still no talk of acquisition for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but there is a great willingness to use part of the budget raised at auctions of works of art for the purpose of purchasing NFT works. In the meantime, the New York temple of modern and contemporary art paves the way through an expert curatorial team led by Michelle Kuo and Paola Antonelli, events dedicated to the dissemination and knowledge of the NFT world, as well as the creation of major exhibitions.
The latest is Unsupervised which featured the work of the digital artist RefikAnadol, running until March 5, 2023.
The NFT Magazine: the new CryptoArt Monograph with Joshua Davis
The NFT Magazine presents the second volume of CryptoArt Monograph with the OG Generative Artist Joshua Davis, carefully curated by art collector, curator and appraiser Ronnie K. Pirovino.
The new CryptoArt Monograph, along with the #02 Issue 2k23 of The NFT Magazine will be available with a double drop from 6th February 2023 at 6,30 PM ET, both on Nifty Gateway, with the COVER DROP and BookDrop NFT for ONE WEEK.
The BookDrop NFT is associated with a physical #CryptoArtMonograph Book, a limited edition art catalog that contains unpublished curated texts to discover his art, to be redeemed the physical book within one year only with the NFT.
Only for this occasion, the artist has created an UNPUBLISHED ARTWORK associated with the physical book and Cover of the #02Issue of The NFT Magazine, both collectibles.
With “CryptoArt Monograph”, The NFT Magazine aims to overcome the boundaries of Web3 publishing at your home as in the metaverse.
The #02 Joshua Davis | CryptoArt Monograph is an unexpected beautiful trip inside one of the last generative art projects of the OG Generative Artist: V01D.
#02 CryptoArt Monograph | Joshua Davis curated by Ronnie K. Pirovino
Joshua Davis is often referred to as a ‘legend’ in the digital art space.
His history of pushing the boundaries of generative, programmatic art is unquestionable. His code symphonies are operatic. The V01D codebase is one of his masterpieces that has yielded a body of artwork that is vital, arresting and gorgeous. The artwork is a glorious fusion of creativity, both human and machine. As a painter, turned programmer, computation became a way to amplify his vision. Animation and interaction presented yet another frontier. NFTs have become the ultimate way to encapsulate and archive his work, having been extremely prolific in the evolution of largely temporal interactive media on the Internet when he became famous as Praystation and won a Golden Nica from the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
An influence for generations of digital artists and designers, Davis has a lasting legacy. The V01D codebase is a project that’s grown and mutated over nearly a decade.
A prominent icon in generative art, Davis has started to focus on his own history, aiming towards a career retrospective. This monograph is a step into creating a comprehensive catalog raisonné of his career. A book is essential to adequately cement his place in the pantheon of iconic artists. The V01D is the main subject, as this series is properly celebrated and commemorated.
The CryptoArt Monograph by The NFT Magazine
The time has come to tell the great Crypto Artists, their history, their artistic research, their digital works of art, and the platforms and metaverses where they operate.
The CryptoArt Monograph series by The NFT Magazine was created in collaboration with the most important and visionary curators to narrate and “timestamp” the evolution of Crypto Art to the present day over time.
After the great international success of the book “CRYPTO ART – Begins” born on an idea and project by The NFT Magazine, published by Rizzoli, the international magazine continues the work of research and curatorship on the world of Crypto Art, yet to be discovered.
Thanks to CryptoArt Monograph, The NFT Magazine reveal every month the great protagonists of the digital art scene in the WEB3.
Each Artist creates an unpublished NFT associated with his/her Monograph to be read and collected, with the possibility to redeem a limited edition physical book to overcome the boundaries of Web3 publishing at your home as in the metaverse.
A single smart contract for Crypto Artists, Curators and Publishers to build the history and foundations of CryptoArt.
The NFT Magazine
The NFT Magazine is a monthly online Magazine that is distributed in a limited edition exclusively in the form of NFT, to be read and collected on the Ethereum Blockchain since 2021.
Collect the NFT Covers created by the major international Crypto Artists to read the NFT Magazine.
With the NFT COVER, the collectors can join the exclusive “Readers Club” reserved area, to read the Magazine, design and choose the content of the next Issues and get more benefits.
Moreover, the Readers Club Members can support and collect new and talented Crypto Artists with the Readers Gallery. Each month, the holders will be able to choose and collect 3 artists with a symbolic price starting from $1 up to $50.
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis, also known as Praystation, was born in San Diego in 1971. He is a New York-based artist, technologist, author and designer in algorithmic image making and animation since 1990, best known as the creator of praystation.com which he used to exhibit new design work and experiments using code, was one of the first to offer open source files for download.
For his project Praystation, Davis won the Prix Ars Electronica 2001 Golden Nica in the category “Net Vision/Net Excellence, the highest honor in international net art and design.
Joshua is also acclaimed for his role in designing the visualization of IBM’s Watson, the intelligent computer program capable of answering questions, for the quiz show Jeopardy.
He is renowned for pioneering an original method of computational, generative-art known as dynamic abstraction.
Joshua’s work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern (London), the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Design Museum (London), le Centre Pompidou (France), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), PS.1 MoMA (New York), the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the ICA London, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and more.
Ronnie K. Pirovino
Ronnie K. Pirovino is a widely recognized art collector, curator and appraiser; these pursuits have evolved to encompass numerous entrepreneurial projects including the Web3 space.
Notably, after his collection grew to international prominence, he departed a successful career in digital advertising to focus on his passion for art. For the past three years, he has partnered with Christie’s on an ongoing series of ground-breaking auction sales, called Trespassing.
With his curatorial prowess being evident, new exhibitions and special projects are in constant development. From speaking to writing, the innovative convergent space of contemporary art and digital technologies is a major focal point.
On Instagram, his verified account @pirovino shares his collection and various endeavors to a wide range of audiences. He holds a B.S. in Communications from Northwestern University.
Le sue doti curatoriali gli permettono di sviluppare costantemente nuove mostre e progetti speciali. L’innovativo spazio convergente dell’arte contemporanea e delle tecnologie digitali è un importante punto focale su cui si focalizzano o suoi testi e i suoi interventi.
Su Instagram, con il suo account @pirovino condivide la sua collezione e i suoi progetti. Ha conseguito un B.S. in Comunicazioni dalla Northwestern University.
The NFT Magazine is Media Partner of the first edition of #AIFactory, an event promoted by the international collective Sewer Nation.
On Saturday 28 January 2023 in Milan there will be 150 participants in the first edition of #AIFACTORY, a monthly event entirely dedicated to Artificial Intelligence.
#AIFACTORY is divided into two activities: the first is the hackathon, in which selected artists and the public armed with PCs and midjourney accounts, will be able to create artworks to participate in the AI challenge by artist Claire Silver or simply experiment with the tool, with the assistance and support of one of the top Crypto Artist Robness as curator.
Experts from the Crypto, NFT and AI world will participate remotely on the occasion of the event, including Andrea Concas, Art Tech Entrepreneur, Founder and Publisher of The NFT Magazine as well as Robness, promoter of AI Art, present in remote connection for the entire duration of the hackaton to guide and select some of the best artists of the first edition of #AIFactory.
The second part of the event is the Academy, where industry experts have been invited to lead educational and practical meetings on the use of AI tools for fashion & architecture design, and for assisted coding writing. The mentors of these workshops are RedEye metazine (AI x Fashion), Rolo (AI x Architecture design), Gerard Sans (AI x Programming).
The tools that will be addressed during the workshops are: stable diffusion, disco diffusion, midjourney and ChatGPT.
AI FACTORY POSTER
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NFT MAGAZINE COMMUNITY
Tickets to participate in this first #AIFACTORY event are sold out, but 10 FREE TICKETS have been reserved for the Italian community of The NFT Magazine.
Those who will be the first to send a request to participate via email to info@thenftmag.io with the subject “PARTICIPATION AIFACTORY MILAN 28 JANUARY” will be selected.
The first 10 will receive confirmation via email together with all the details (place and time) to participate in the event.
At the end of the first edition of the #AIFACTORY there will be an afterparty in the Art Mall Milano gallery in via Torino 64, where it will be possible to see an AI art gallery curated by Vandalo Ruins with works by Claire Silver, Robness, Redrum and Bosk only to name a few.
He announced it and he did it: on March 11, 2023 the crypto artist Beeple inaugurates his Studios in Charleston with the aim of creating new opportunities for the Web3 Community.
Mike Winkelmann – aka BEEPLE – yesterday proudly announced on Twitter that Beeple Studios in Charleston, South Carolina will open on March 11, 2023.
extremely excited to announce the GRAND OPENING of BEEPLE STUDIOS on March 11th in Charleston!! 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/rdPxyeewl1
The inauguration had been awaited for two years, following the historic auction at Christie’s which led to the entry of NFTs and Digital Art into the world of contemporary art, when Beeple’s rise was unstoppable.
Now the time has come for him to do his part for the Web3 Community: with the opening of Beeple Studios, a new chapter in the history of this artist begins.
THE BEEPLE STUDIOS
The Studios were officially founded in 2021 in Charleston, the city where Beeple lives with his family, it is right here the artist created his works. In these spaces, Beeple then developed innovative multi-purpose spaces at a very high technological level within a vast industrial area – about 50,000 m2.
The Beeple Studios are made up of workspaces for artists, a 13,000 sq m exhibition gallery and an experience space: all with the aim of bringing together the Web3 community and beyond around education and a love of Digital Art.
Beeple Studios is top secret: for security reasons until the day of the space’s opening, for which slots will then be provided for visits by the general public.
The poster announcing the opening of Beeple Studios
BEEPLE IS LOOKING FOR NEW ARTISTS TO PROMOTE
As written on the Beeple Studios website “ this space was designed to be used by the Community. We wanted to build a space where we could plan and set up various possibilities for exhibitions for artists and experimental gathering events for the Community “.
For this ample space for applications by the artists, who will be able to submit – until February 1st – their works to be exhibited on the occasion of the grand opening following a selection by Beeple and its Team.
THE GRAND OPENING ON MARCH 11, 2023
In Beeple’s tweets, the enthusiasm for the grand opening can be perceived: “March 11th marks the second anniversary of the sale of Christie’s and it’s crazy to think how far it has come since then. I am honored to be partnering with Christies again for this grand opening event!!”
But that’s not all: the names of the artists who will participate in the first exhibition that inaugurates the Beeple Studios are the greats of Crypto Art.
Fvckrender, Blake Kathryn, Smearballs, Dee Kay Motion, Raw and Rendered, Smeccea, Raoul Marks, Copy, Ash Thorp, GMunk, Joshua Davis, Revile Stuff, Victor Durante, Brilly, David Ariew, Chelsea Evenstar, Refik Anadol, Justin Maller, Jason Ebeler, Coldie, PAK and many more to be announced.
To participate in the Beeple Studios Grand Opening you must necessarily be a collector of Beeple’s works and request your free ticket here
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a queste tecnologie ci permetterà di elaborare dati come il comportamento di navigazione o ID unici su questo sito. Non acconsentire o ritirare il consenso può influire negativamente su alcune caratteristiche e funzioni.
Funzionale
Always active
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici.L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a queste tecnologie ci permetterà di elaborare dati come il comportamento di navigazione o ID unici su questo sito. Non acconsentire o ritirare il consenso può influire negativamente su alcune caratteristiche e funzioni.
Funzionale
Always active
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici.L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a queste tecnologie ci permetterà di elaborare dati come il comportamento di navigazione o ID unici su questo sito. Non acconsentire o ritirare il consenso può influire negativamente su alcune caratteristiche e funzioni.
Funzionale
Always active
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici.L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a queste tecnologie ci permetterà di elaborare dati come il comportamento di navigazione o ID unici su questo sito. Non acconsentire o ritirare il consenso può influire negativamente su alcune caratteristiche e funzioni.
Funzionale
Always active
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici.L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
