Pierre Pauze 🔵 🚽 on Warpcast

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I've been navigating both worlds for a while now—contemporary art and Web3. Each has its own distinct codes and aesthetic family. Traditional art follows established codes and methods that might need disrupting, while Web3 is full of potential but also chaotic. Everything is art, yet nothing is art—we don’t really know where to stand. Are new economic models emerging for artists 0.3? Are new aesthetics being created? That’s the discussion I want to have here—not just with self-proclaimed artists, but with those shaping our visual culture and experiences across smartphones and laptops. Tagging @pugson to dive into this. First question: Do you consider yourself an artist? And why ?

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i don’t call myself an artist or even a designer because it’s not my primary “mode” — more of a byproduct of what i’m working on. web3 art was kind of pigeon holed into PFP collections of a certain style or abstract art imo — everything in the middle didn’t fully catch on with the public i think. but my knowledge of the space is too limited to have a good answer. there are new aesthetics created and some are even post-aesthetic movements where the center of attention is an object accessible to anyone and the admissions are open (example being /swords). no rules, no laws, it’s about bringing people together and free expression. that’s how it looks from my perspective at least.

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art and artist have been so misused that i don’t believe the words carry much meaning anymore. that is a problem for someone else to work out though. you can look at the problems and chaos and discuss endlessly, or you can create with your back to the world, as agnes martin would say. the top creators in web3 have found a balance of both, but lean more towards doing their own thing, and have mostly avoided cynicism and debates. art should be the highest focus, then being an example of the direction you’d like web3 to go. we’re so early. the space is still very malleable

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as someone coming from the traditional art world into web3, i see both spaces have their contradictions. as you said, the art world seems to resist change and thrives on reinventing an already established, successful formula. while web3 embraces disruption but also repeats the patterns of exclusivity, speculation etc. (insert ‘same same but different’ meme here). regardless of mediums, platforms, speculations, remixes, traditional or web3, you will always find people creating regardless of these patterns and new aesthetics will be shaped along the way. almost as a by product of these individuals “creating for the sake of creating/growing/exploring/playing”. everything is art, yet nothing is art. we don’t really know where to stand but we have the urge to create, make, shape. (not qualified to answer but there i am)

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