On-Chain Art

now that “onchain” is what Base intends to call everything done on the blockchain as a successor term to web3. What are we going to call art that specifically is written onto the blockchain itself or uses the blockchain as part of the art?

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In my view the distinction is overblown to a degree

“Onchain-ness” should be viewed as a spectrum

If we constrain the value of tokenization to only things that can be stuffed directly onchain, it’s missing the point, and will exclude a lot of significant media that isn’t practical to fit “fully onchain”

Thinking about music NFTs daily since early 2020. Co-founder @stvdionouveau. Collecting @snv_collection. Curating @musicnftarchive.

No one is constraining the tokenization of things to stuff stored onchain. That's the entire point, tokenization and onchain storage are different things. So why is Base co-opting an art niche to its marketing efforts? Because it has high reputation, built by onchain artists.

https://chainleft.art

Dad, data scientist, blockchain native artist.

Power consolidation=evil.

It’s a purely semantic distinction imo.

I’ve been minting my work since mid 2020, starting on SuperRare.

I believe it is progress to consider IPFS/Arweave NFTs a part of a broader umbrella use of the term onchain.

I realize that some stand to profit from an exclusive use of the word.

Yeah for the people who are now co-opting a term with no effort of 5 years, yes :)

For the artists who made the term reputable, it's a little annoying when the suits who ruined terms like web3 and metaverse now co-opt onchain.