What are NFTs?
What are NFTs?
In fact, NFT is more like a pass phrase. It itself is just a technical means and medium, but whether it is about encrypted art, on-chain art/art on-chain, digital native art, music copyright, script copyright, or even games and sports derivatives. Labeled NFT. Especially digital art, which constitutes NFT, is suddenly worth discussing. Therefore, labeling complex digital art and other digital derivatives with the NFT label is more convenient for dissemination and circulation.
In the foreseeable future, does the form of NFT constitute the ability to change the content of art?
Going back to Neil Postman's way of thinking, the various limitations, characteristics, and modes of communication of language will indirectly change the content of communication. If brainwaves communicate directly, lying will be useless; if there is no written record, history and legends will be passed on by bards; if we still communicate by telegram, the content of a few words in WeChat may be condensed into a few words . The digital art behind NFT has already existed, but with the technology and hot spots of NFT, the dissemination and circulation of digital art has made a leap, and this leap happened more than a hundred days ago. In most metaverses of digital art, digital media can be paper, film, clay, or the sum of all human media in the past, and no longer have the limitations of physical space, gravity, material strength, and even entropy. Additions, etc., have been reconstructed, which of course represents more possibilities for creation, and even guides the direction of experimental art.
Can NFT exist independently from the community and culture of the blockchain?
But speaking of this technology, it doesn't matter whether it is off-chain or not. But it is not feasible to talk about NFT art and other cultural derivatives without the blockchain. In fact, our credit card, or every online account, needs to enter a password. When comparing these passwords, the system checks whether the hash values generated by the passwords are consistent. These daily things are equipped with NFT technology. main traits, but from another angle,We can’t talk about a single work of art regardless of a historical period, a society, or a community, and the same is true for NFT. Talking about NFT without blockchain is a hooligan.
Do artists need to understand blockchain? Do Generation Z creators who grew up in the blockchain need to have a foundation in traditional postmodern art?
This issue only represents a personal opinion. The current creators of the NFT world, whether it is the encrypted punk series generated by early algorithms, the half-painting and half-algorithmic hash mask series, or the boring monkey yacht club series that has become popular all over the world recently, have all Destined to be written into art history, they have successfully changed the way works are disseminated, circulated, and even redistributed wealth. I very much welcome creators in the encrypted world to study art and learn art, but it’s completely fine if they don’t study art, they are doing very well. On the contrary, I have met many artists with the mentality of bringing regular troops into the mountains to suppress bandits, or catching up with the trend and chasing the enthusiasm. The things they make are specious and have no sincerity at all. They are the ones who need to learn. They need to learn the world, spirit, thinking methods behind it, communication, circulation methods, and encryption culture of the blockchain.
On the NFT art track, what kind of art form will lead?
Leaving aside the inherent characteristics of dissemination and circulation methods on the blockchain, native digital art will take the lead. For example, digital film, digital photography, digital sculpture, digital game world, etc. have existed for a long time. In the past, these forms often relied on a long production line, and it was difficult to form a part of a cross-sectional painting to form a dissemination and circulation.With the NFT reform, these original fragments, individuals or small teams are liberated as productivity, and have the ability to create/manufacture art or products out of the entire industrial chain. I guess they will take the lead. On the one hand, it is also because digital native art constitutes the art immigration with the lowest cost.image description
Gouging the Wall to Steal Light, Zhang Zhiwei, 2020
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