Blockchain, Arts and Artists

There is an art project launched a crowdfunding program to highlight the negative influence of technology blockchain perceived in art.

The project, based in the UK, aims to print an illustrated book entitled The Re artists: Thinking Blockchain to explore the effects of this new technology in artistic fields.
Funding also to host a program of public discourse in London. The project emphasizes the discomfort some of the artists with the idea of ​​this new technology was introduced into the art world.

"Among other things, that are suspected of cultural production being brought under the same regime that funding."

Skepticism about the "financialization" of art

The main point of discussion with the blockchain technology described in this crowdfunding project is the use of technology originally used for a financial purpose which was introduced in the art world, and the corrupting effect it may have.

"But even as we write, this" new dawn "for transactions is being re-imagined as the next sleep cycle that takes us deeper into the neoliberal dream of the complete financialization. In this dream, Finance and Technology accelerate its demented value phenomena of chips mining as grammars culture, family, nature, politics and space-time itself evaporate in a flurry of questions and exclamation marks in its wake. "

Blockchain media business: Blockchain is good for art

Across the spectrum, a number of artists, developers and entrepreneurs have joined the cause to combine to perfection the art and technology through blockchain. Mike Vid technology, Technology Evangelist LBRY a platform designed to restore the property and financial control of the artistic works of the artists themselves, I think blockchain is a positive factor for the cultural world.

"Blockchain technology is ideal for artists This allows them to share their work, make money for them, and simply have a public record of who created what and when -. All without the need of a large institution such as a company or government to be the mediator. Art thrives when it is released, and Blockchains put control back in the hands of the artists themselves. I hope to see a blossoming of new creativity blocknet as we have seen with the dawn of the Internet ".

Troy Fearnow of Cryptoart, a project to create artworks in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and combine these artworks with cryptocurrency portfolios also sees the technology blockchain set free artists.

"Blockchain is good for artists, and even better for collectors. Fraud and abuse of rights saturate certain sectors of the art market, especially on the Internet. Imagine if a collector can authenticate itself a work of art only becomes reference to blockchain. Only licensing agreements (especially in the form of scale) would be much simpler if you have the original holder of the rights contained in a book that does not change the parameters of use. "