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@PhantomsVault @rawk_at @MichaelSzivatz @WeCreatures_ @BISQA_ @ChawkiZaher @EthanSBrewerton @HanZzzel_11 @patatakleo @Tschuuuuly @nessnissla @ross_dallbricht @vincemanguy @maybelater64 @CampMograph @eyedesyn @fgarcia_nava @imse_ty Congrats!!!🥳

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@Arthemort 🤣I feel you! ❤️

Me after hours of trying to socialize with people without any interest in art

Last day in HK. Beautiful city and much to reflect on for how we can continue to build this ecosystem as a collective. One of my big takeaways is just how obvious it is becoming *to the world* that digital art is the art of this era. It is the most accessible and engaging format, and the only with the surface area to invite real co-creation. But it is also the work that is asking the most important questions of the moment - questions humanity at scale are now confronted with trying to answer. Namely, how do we resolve the increasing ubiquity of agents and models and algorithms in our daily lives and what does it mean for human agency and human-technology collaboration? It’s also clear to me that this ecosystem is replete with some of the (1) best humans, and (2) hardest working people I have ever encountered. The artists and gallerists literally work morning to night on the presentation and communication of their work. In most cases there is a beautiful dance between artist and gallery - iterating over the course of the week together, supporting each other, and often taking a brief moment to exhale together over quick food and drink to end the day. In terms of the HK market in particular - this seems like the single largest opportunity for the expansion of digital art practices. I expect this ecosystem to grow massively in Asia in the coming 12-24 months. Salute to all who showed up with so much integrity and hard work this week to help amplify the voices of these artists. These are the early days of a digital art renaissance.

Imagine I told you five years ago we would one day be showing art at Art Basel in Hong Kong It would be so popular that crowds of tens of thousands would fill up the space and there was no room to even walk Wake up It’s not a dream This is just a start This is how we build

Zero 10🔥 @ArtBasel @eli_schein @fellowshiptrust

@eli_schein 💯

1.5k likes … the people like purpose built digital art devices.

Moment for the history books 🥳

@NaughtalieStone @cryptopunks Huge congratulations!!! 🥳

From Yuga to NODE to Larva Labs. Forever Punk #98. Eras aren't meant to be endless. They're meant to complete, including my era at the helm of @cryptopunks. Stewardship, by definition, is temporary. It's caretaking until something can stand on its own, or until you no longer need to mediate it. In my eyes, stewardship was never about control or ownership. It was about care and support. That's the role my stewardship played, to make room for something more permanent. A home. CryptoPunks have found homes before. On Ethereum. In a big pink book. MoMA. I found my home with my Punks, more than ever when I lost my physical home in the fires. Home is a place you can return to. Home carries memory. Home gives structure to something alive without fixing it in place. And that's the spirit I hope continues for this project and the community with @nodefnd as their home. Under my care, CryptoPunks moved from the artists who made them, through Yuga, and landing softly at NODE. Helping open the Foundation's doors with the first solo Punks exhibition, this was an incredible honor and a wonderful encore after I stepped down as GM last year. Thankful to Micky, Becky, and the entire NODE team for that opportunity. And now I'm going back to the beginning. To the source. To my new home. Matt & John. I'm officially joining @larvalabs. I spent my last chapter taking care of the collection. Now I'm working with the creators who made that collection. My focus will be on their legacy beyond CryptoPunks alone, the studio's day to day work, and supporting their incomparable vision wherever it leads. More on everything else I'm thinking about soon.

@thepropgallery 💯

Digital art and NFT must haves CryptoPunk XCOPY Beeple Chromie Squiggle ACK FIdenza Sam Spratt For me nostalgia will play a huge part going forward

@redbeardnft 💯

If you are collecting digital art now Than you are collecting for the right reasons

How Digital Art was Bought & Displayed in the Early 2000s "A new generation of artists and gallery owners wants you to think of [televisions] as something else: an empty picture frame. Purveyors of a relatively new genre, so-called digital art, aim to fill that blank screen." Quote from 'Digital art sellers aiming to fill blank TV screens' by Andrea Petersen for The Wall Street Journal, Feb 2005 // Clip from AP covering Whitney Museums 2001 Bitstreams exhibition.

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@worldofwomenxyz How is it different to patio?

WoWLand is officially live! Complete missions, collect badges, gain XP for future rewards 🎊 This is going to be where we house new initiatives, test products, and more! 💜

Sougwen Chung

@Jediwolf Yes!!! Exactly. 🤌

Eventually blockchains won’t be remembered for how they work - but for the art that chose to live on them.

Dear artists, Curators and collectors are trying to find your work, so PLEASE do yourself a favor and do the following: 1. Have a link in your bio to your available work! No one wants to have to look for hours through your feed to see if they can find a link to a piece or go through every platform searching for you. 2. If you have a Linktree: great — but please update it. Again, having tons of expired or broken links is very confusing and frustrating. Update it and keep it current. 3. Have a webpage. You can do something very simple with AI or with any web-building tool. Something that says who you are, what your practice is like, shares your overall work, and shows your available work. Again, make it easy for a collector to fall in love with you. 4. In your X bio, have something that makes sense (or points to something that makes sense, like a website). If they’re looking at your X profile, chances are something caught their attention or someone recommended you. Let them know who you are as an artist. 5. Please put prices on your pieces! It is very hard for a collector to offer to buy without knowing your price point. They don’t want to go too high, but they definitely don’t want to go too low and offend you. Take the guessing out of it. State your price (and adjust accordingly). If you don’t want to do this on a platform, at least do it on your webpage so collectors can understand your general price range. 6. Have some sort of pricing strategy that you can stand behind. Don’t make it seem like you have completely different pricing depending on which platform the collector finds you on. Do all your pieces have to have the same price? Absolutely not. Is it based on how much time you put into the piece? No. It is based on what you believe the piece is worth. Make it make sense to you, and it will make sense to a collector — but be consistent. 7. And lastly, be active. I don’t mean you have to post 10 times a day or that you even have to have new work. But if a collector sees that you’ve had no activity for over six months, they might assume things have changed and you’re no longer interested in selling. Most collectors want to buy beautiful work, but they also want to support an artist’s journey. If you’re no longer interested in the journey, they might not be either. Rooting for all of you artists out there! The bear market is tough but there are many people looking for your work! 🫂❤️

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." - Twyla Tharp

@CozomoMedici @refikanadol Amazing news 🥳

Mega news in digital: @refikanadol & Google Arts & Culture launches new arts residency programme.

Calling all creative technologists & artists. 🎨💻 The search is underway. We've teamed up with @refikanadol for a @DatalandMuseum residency exploring AI, nature & design. ✨ Get $25k funding + access to the Large Nature Model. goo.gle/datalandaiarti…