In the age of information systems — where we are imbued into the matrix of computing — art is revolutionised.

Baudrillard-ian theories of a world dominated by mass media, images, signs, and any other simulacra is no longer a philosophical study of a potential future, but rather realism embodied.

Media culture has created an information overload, and the subsequent implications on the ways in which we view and approach the vast amounts of information made available to us through mass media. You can scarcely get about your day without inexplicably being exposed to a plethora of information through some form of information system.

Plugged into the matrix, are we?

Our phones, computers, televisions, radios, cars, watches, fridges etc. are all mediums of information distribution. Frankly I wouldn’t be surprised my oven rejected my temperature settings and started beeping me instructions on how to properly bake a loaf of bread of heat up some sauce (I’m looking at you, Bimby).

Naturally, with the proliferation of the digital platform, art too — despite its historic tendency to shy away from traditional exhibition platforms — has slowly evolved to keep up with the demands of the digital age.

Enter Crypto art and Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs). The challenger that would dispel the illusions of traditional museology; centuries’ worth of effort establishing institutions with the sole purpose of housing, curating, archiving, and conserving a slither of art, history, and culture rewritten with a single click of the button.

For the uninformed, you can now own an art work in the form of a digital asset, accessed through a non-fungible token (NFT).
* Think: a .png file exported to a thumb drive that can only be plugged in and accessed by its owner with their unique password.

Confused? So am I.

I spend the better part of my post-graduate years in museum studies, ceaselessly cataloguing and auditing unique collection pieces in desperate need of conservation that rarely see the light of day, let alone end up displayed at an exhibition.

With crypto art, my job is rendered utterly obsolete, much like a black and white photocopy of a badly executed replica of the Mona Lisa painted with cheap watercolours by a narcissistic, self-absorbed “art aficionado”. The lack of tangibility; a physical presence or medium (painting, sculpture, print etc.)

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Source: https://medium.com/the-collector/the-art-revolution-in-a-digital-age-99de95ca8070?source=rss——-8—————–cryptocurrency