As the art world dematerializes into URLs and NFTs, the art itself is lashing out by defacing its own gallery walls and even by destroying itself.
Spot - Boston Dynamics condemns robot paintball rampage plan
Feb 2021, BBC News
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A US art installation that will let people control a paintballing robot in a mock art gallery has been condemned by the firm that made the robo-dog.Boston Dynamics criticised the project, calling it a "provocative use" of its quadruped robot, Spot.It warned that if the "spectacle" goes ahead, Spot's warranty might be voided, meaning it could not be updated.The group behind it, MSCHF, argues that Spot or robots like it will probably be used for military applications.
Banksy art burned, destroyed and sold as token in 'money-making stunt'
Mar 2021, BBC News
"Banksy's own work has toyed with this idea that it is non-permanent," Mr Ward said. "Once those works are on the walls, he doesn't authenticate them.Initially, NFT has been a popular format for selling internet memes, with the Nyan Cat - depicting a cartoon cat with a Pop-tart body flying with a trail of rainbows - selling for $600,000.On NFT's in general: "With NFT technology, digital art can finally assume a strong commercial value given that we are now able to track provenance scarcity," he told the BBC.
This Self-Destructing Website Is Impossible to Sell As an NFT
Apr 2021, VICE News
The web page containing the image disappears when its owner tries to share or upload it. NFTs often simply reference images elsewhere on the web, so if an image is taken down at the source then the NFT will appear broken: Tokenize This, by Ben Grosser
Post Script: This guy also made The Endless Doomscroller, which keeps only the context-independent parts of headlines, like "Collapse Imminent" or "Everything Shut Down", or my favorite, "Today is Worse Than Yesterday".
Post Post Script, For Posterity:
Beeple's NFT digital art nets £50m at Christie's auction
Mar 2021, BBC News
Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9m
Mar 2021, BBC News
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