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highlighting the top 10 NFTS of 2022
This year has seen a new way of thinking about currency, property, and art, and it seems that there are quite a few who have embraced this art form. NFTs, which stands for non-fungible token, is the record of ownership of a digital object on a blockchain. It can be any type of media, including but not limited to art, videos, music, GIFs, games, tweets, and memes. The non-expendable part means that the item is unique, making it irreplaceable.
From a fully nude Madonna exploring the concept of creation to a reinterpretation of Renaissance masterpieces with modern touches. we continue with our annual review of this year’s results GREAT stories with a look at the TOP 10 NFTs featured at designboom in 2022.
TODAY’S DIGITAL SPACE IS THE OPPOSITE OF FREE SPACE’ – NFT BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY
Artist Robert Montgomery’s first NFT critiques the pervasiveness of the digital world © Robert Montgomery
After recently stunning the world with his solar-powered political billboard at COP26, acclaimed British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery entered the NFT arena with his signature text-based work, a Blade Runner-esque manifesto condemning the ills of digital world. The work was published by New Pavilion, a consulting agency that collaborates with some of the world’s most celebrated artist estates, contemporary creators, art foundations and cultural institutions.
Through this work of art, Montgomery explore the existential sphere of the digital world. Specifically, it analyzes how communication and digital devices have become the stewards of our time and how the traces of our biographies are now reflected in advertising media. In doing so, he ultimately questions the fate of our intellectual and emotional freedoms, as well as our connection to the natural world.
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MADONNA IS BORN A TREE, BUTTERFLIES AND CENTIPEDE IN NSFW NFTS TRIPTYCH
Mother of Creation, an NFT triptych of Madonna and Beeple
After a year of work, Madonna and Beeple have released Mother of Creation, an NFT triptych that dropped today on SuperRare. Featuring animations of a completely nude Madonna, the works explore the concept of creation, motherhood and birth through darkness and light in our modern world. Received with some skepticism, the collaboration has caused many to ask the infamous But why? Question. As artnet states, ‘we live in a dystopia… and I feel nothing’. It’s for people who live lives so media-saturated and irony-poisoned that nothing feels real.’
“When Mike (Beeple) and I decided to collaborate on this project a year ago, I was excited to have the opportunity to share my vision of the world as a mother and an artist with Mike’s unique point of view.” Madonna said. “It has been an incredible journey to build this together from an intellectual idea to an emotional story, giving birth to art. I wanted to investigate the concept of creation, not just the way a child enters the world through a woman’s vagina, but also the way an artist gives birth to creativity. Most importantly, we wanted to take this opportunity to benefit the mothers and children who need it most right now.”
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INTERVIEW: REFIK ANADOL AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST ON ‘NFTS AND PUBLIC ART’ AT NFT ART DAY ZRH
‘NFT and public art’ at NFT ART DAY ZRH © Refik Anadol Studio
NFT ZRH ART DAYthe first annual NFTs and the metaverse conference in Switzerland, brought together leading figures from the field of digital arts and the art market for an afternoon of in-depth talks. Participants explored different topics related to NFTs, including an introduction to non-fungible tokens and their relationship to the art world, as well as collecting behavior and various art practices around them.
One of the topics of the day was dedicated to NFTs and Public Art, which was addressed through a conversation between Refik Anadol, media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and artificial intelligence, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries. The two speakers discussed Refik Anadol’s work in recent years working with the NFT medium and what it means to employ blockchain technology to create public works of art.
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KEVIN ABOSCH ON HOW BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IS RESHAPING THE ART WORLD AT NFT ART DAY ZRH
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