Steen
@usersteen.eth
When you go to a museum you realize how stupid the w3 art scene is. For various reasons, artists adopted self-destructive scarcity-infected behavior. This stunted creativity to the point that elite talents could hardly be defined as artists. Fungibles further stunted creativity bc artists don't get them. I complained about curation and a lack of curators, but putting something into the world is the purest form of curation. Museum exhibitions focused on a single artist will present a ton of their work. Different media, concepts, bts, notes, etc. They tell and celebrate the story. Real artists create and publish no matter what. Until they die. Because they need to. Incidentally, the blockchains desperately need anti-slop. Weird that those qualified to solve are scared it will hurt their bottom line. Paradigms to change.
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_slow_crypto 🌅⏳🪁
@slowcrypto
I’ve been reflecting on this this week reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. She’s often described as a digital artist since she often uses digital means to express her ideas, but her phrase ‘my medium is context’ is much more fitting so context artist is a rad title to carry conceptual art as she does. Gen art is fantastic and probably the most native to or at least best aligned use of web3 tech, but it’s very aesthetic and generally low on emotion and a fresh perspective of life. The human touch needs more consideration now, I think. I’ve been wondering why the tech is so inspiring even for myself when it’s the deeper senses that really capture the imagination anyway. I have ideas but they seem 100% uncommercial and I wonder how much the nature of the internet gets ‘proper art’ even in smart spaces such as this. Reckon it worth a few experiments?
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Steen
@usersteen.eth
have to do some research on Jenny Odell, great reference. Totally agree re: gen art. have been toiling over this apparent truth for sometime. would love to hear what kind of experiments come to mind
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