23 years ago, in 2001 @whitneymuseum organized a huge exhibition “Bitstreams: Art in the Digital Age”
Let’s look through the exhibition guide of this important moment in digital art and I’ll add a few comments.
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Yesterday he hit his success metrics (which includes high market cap) and got a big options payout. He now wants to make the tax exposure for exercising those options as small as possible
10 YEARS AGO TODAY:
I had an idea how blockchains could create unique ownership and provenance for digital art.
@anildash and I called the idea Monetized Graphics - or Monegraph.
This artwork Quantum was the first one of this kind.
Now thankfully many many ppl share this vision
Thanks to @michael_connor for finding my 2013 email pitching my idea for blockchain based ownership for digital art. The first working examples came a few months later in 2014
Really happy to announce this publicly. Thanks to @PostmastersNYC@whitneymuseum@ChristianePaul2 + museum trustees and supporters who rallied behind this acquisition. I truly love this piece and Jenn and I couldn’t be happier with entrusting it to this institution
Some pages from Alexander Galloway’s 2004 book “Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization” from MIT Press
This book had a big influence on me
The cover is a photo by Charles Peterson who did all the early album covers for Sub Pop Records. Charles and I went to high
Just a reminder to NFT folks, in general, traditional galleries run shows for 6 weeks, with at least a week between shows. So maybe 7 shows a year, plus a summer group show. Then 2 or 3 fairs where they show 5 or 6 gallery artists. The volume is way less than in NFTs