{"id":1543,"date":"2021-05-18T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/its-chaos-for-a-lot-of-people-what-is-the-future-of-nfts-in-australian-art\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:12:52","slug":"its-chaos-for-a-lot-of-people-what-is-the-future-of-nfts-in-australian-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/its-chaos-for-a-lot-of-people-what-is-the-future-of-nfts-in-australian-art\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s chaos for a lot of people\u2019: what is the future of NFTs in Australian art?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many players in more traditional fine art circles feel ill-equipped to deal with the digital art trend, some contemporary art enthusiasts are going all in<\/p>\n

In 1962, the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein began dealing in what he declared to be Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility<\/a>. In exchange for a sum of solid gold, Klein would imbue a patch of thin air with his artistic aura and provide a receipt. One such \u201czone\u201d was bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where it exists only as a photograph of the transaction<\/a>, taken as the receipt was set ablaze and half the gold tossed into the Seine. In postwar Europe, such high-minded (Klein was an amphetamine addict, as well as a provocateur<\/a>) artistic experiments both raised eyebrows and opened wallets.<\/p>\n

Sixty years later, the mind-bending US$69m sale of another intangible artwork, Everydays: the First 5,000 Days<\/a> by digital artist Beeple, in the form of an NFT (non-fungible token) at Christie\u2019s in March this year likewise has the art world paying attention.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile many players in more traditional fine art circles feel ill-equipped to deal with the digital art trend, some contemporary art enthusiasts are going all in
\nIn 1962, the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein began dealing in what he declared to be Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In exchange for a sum of solid gold, Klein would imbue a patch of thin air with his artistic aura and provide a receipt. One such \u201czone\u201d was bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where it exists only as a photograph of the transaction, taken as the receipt was set ablaze and half the gold tossed into the Seine. In postwar Europe, such high-minded (Klein was an amphetamine addict, as well as a provocateur) artistic experiments both raised eyebrows and opened wallets.
\nSixty years later, the mind-bending US$69m sale of another intangible artwork, Everydays: the First 5,000 Days by digital artist Beeple, in the form of an NFT (non-fungible token) at Christie\u2019s in March this year likewise has the art world paying attention. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While many players in more traditional fine art circles feel ill-equipped to deal with the digital art trend, some contemporary art enthusiasts are going all in In 1962, the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein began dealing in what he declared to be Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In exchange for a sum of solid gold, …<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s chaos for a lot of people\u2019: what is the future of NFTs in Australian art?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}