@graphicapng Cool comp [:)] I just cruised yer webbo...and that Japanese kid w/ the flowers looks so cool in that byte-look. Thought I'd say...very well
A lot of crazy stuff has happened in this space over the years but there is one thing that haunts me ever since: that name change from Santiago to @ttiimmees
Crypto art won’t fail because prices collapsed.
It will fail if it cannot produce meaning that exists outside its own echo chamber.
Right now, too much of the space is obsessed with proving to the traditional art world that it matters.
That’s already a losing position.
The real potential of NFTs on decentralised networks is the construction of a new global distribution infrastructure, where art can circulate without the need to rely on traditional gatekeepers.
But that infrastructure only becomes historically meaningful if it expands beyond crypto art itself.
For now, most serious contemporary artists still don’t feel addressed by this system.
Not because they’re conservative, but because the discourse is dominated by collectors defending the value of past acquisitions rather than artists exploring new possibilities.
If this remains a closed scene speaking primarily to itself, it will be remembered as a financial subculture, not an artistic movement.
If it shifts, and becomes a space where artists from across the global contemporary art field actively want to work, experiment, and build audiences, then something else happens.
For that to happen, the scene needs to stop looking backward and start building toward that future.
The Tezos art ecosystem already moves in that direction, with infrastructure and culture that prioritise artists and experimentation.
Other chains, including Solana to some extent, show similar tendencies, but the shift is not yet structural across the space.
This way crypto art is no longer the movement itself, but the precedent:
the first art scene to construct decentralised distribution networks that later art movements inherit.
That is the only version in which crypto art survives history.
Oh, absolutely… I’m deeply fascinated by the idea of asking Lola a question. After all, educated people, artists with formal training, art historians, and anyone capable of reading and interpreting cultural context on their own clearly need everything reduced to a digest from Wikipedia. It’s genuinely impressive how easily one can underestimate the intelligence of the artistic community. Perhaps you could ask Lola whether she’s able to offer anything that isn’t just a neatly repackaged summary of the internet, because at this point it feels more diminishing than enlightening.