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Crypto art, the arrival of a new wave

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Artists are just beginning to break the circle of crypto art.

Original title: "The Art of Crypto: The Coming of a New Wave"

Source: Seeing Encryption Art

While we are still talking about crypto art in terms of technical value and investment distribution, it is proof that crypto art has only just begun.

Since the artist Beeple completed the epic auction, the coin circle has completely broken the traditional cognition of the art circle. With the stimulation of capital, many artists feel "the wind is rising". At that time, crypto art has become a key word sweeping across our "circle of friends".

Beeple's futuristic world

When artists take the initiative to break the circle and embrace crypto art, what we see is the "wind direction" and "wave". It is undeniable that the wind direction and wave are due to the operation of capital, and how much of it is due to the power of "art" itself, which remains to be considered.

At present, when we talk about crypto art, we still focus more on the technical value and investment distribution. Throughout the current news, the discussion of crypto art, the coin circle is more than the art circle, the core of the discussion, is also the capital surplus art, but for the "crypto art" exactly what art, very little involved, this is the market gene, can not be avoided.

But it also shows that there is a large space for discussion of "art" in cryptographic art, and artists have just begun to break the circle of cryptographic art.

The artist's creation needs the context, and the environment is a node in the context.

When we talk about crypto art, if we only talk about "crypto" and don't talk about "art", after the "wave" has passed, we will find that "crypto art" has been swimming naked.

And when we talk about art, must be standing in the point of view of art history to discuss is the basis, when we talk about artists, also only contact artists journey to talk to be meaningful, so when we encryption introduction to art, only will be the artist's creation course as a longitudinal axis, the block chain technology environment as a horizontal axis, forming a crossing point to discuss worthwhile.

An artist who paints traditional Chinese painting or traditional oil painting has never thought about the network, digital and technology in his previous works, but as long as his works are linked, it is a broken circle, and he can call himself an encryption artist. This is obviously a very shallow cognition after breaking away from the context of creation. Only when the process of creation is in line with the environment and its thinking is in line with the carrier of creation can the characteristics of this art be conveyed.

As for what crypto art is, here I would like to illustrate with two cases, both from the dilute addiction crypto art platform.

03 Encryption art, should be the art and block chain in the "genetic" natural fit.

As a crypto art content operation platform, Xianjuan has its own artistic standards in the selection of cooperative artists: the process and thinking of creation are absolutely related to technology, intelligence and block chain. And Lin Xin is the cooperative artist of dilute addiction, it is to accord with this standard.

The achievement of this cooperation, rather than the teacher Lin Xin chose the encryption art, encryption art chose the teacher Lin Xin. As a digital artist, as early as 2005, Lin Xin began to systematically think and present such propositions as "post-network", "artificial intelligence", "algorithm revolution" and "big data". The human form that appears repeatedly in her works simultaneously exists as a combination of human, machine, consciousness and program. This neutral and objective visual display mode constructs a new cyber space. Placing this space on a blockchain, the genetic combination of art and technology should encode the work of art as it should be.

Signed artist of dilute addiction -- the work of teacher Lin Xin

This time, Lin Xin chose the work on the chain, which is a revolutionary work in her creation process. Before this work, she still expressed her work on the "external image", but after this work, she began to "internal view", and her work more directly expressed the internal thinking and inner emotions. Just like the middle line on the picture: above the middle line, is the external presentation, and below the middle line, is the internal emotion. This change is particularly consistent with the changes brought about by the "art of encryption" in the kernel. This work will be sold publicly on Crypto Art, the largest Crypto Art trading platform in Asia.

04 Encryption art needs to be stylized and independent.

Cezanne used his signature urinals to define "ready-made art", while Andy Warhol used silk-screen technology to create "pop art". History has told us countless times that technology alone is not enough to be an art genre, only the artist's thinking and creation can be.

The same is true of crypto art. We have discussed too much technology, whether it is blockchain technology, or the technology created by artists. Most of the art works are just presented by a different carrier. At present, many artists have begun to create works based on on-chain contracts, trying to make more "pure" cryptographic art, bringing more possibilities to the future of cryptographic art.

On April 3rd, Chang Hui, the founder of Silent Adventure, was invited to participate in the forum of "Technology and Art in the Intelligent Era" held in Today Art Museum in Beijing, and shared the theme of "NFT-- a new form of art economy". At the meeting, Diluent and Zheng Da, the participating artist of this forum, jointly announced that they would create a new cryptographic art project jointly based on Zheng Da's newly released art work Aibox and combined with blockchain technology.

Changhui shared in the forum

Zheng Da is a transmedia artist and The founder of Low Tech Art Lab. His works have won The interactive Art award of "The 2017& NBSP;Lumen Prize" and The Art award winner of "The Third King's Corner Award" in The UK. Visiting Scholar, Department of Art, University of British Columbia (UBC) and CPI Fellow, Seoul, Korea. The artistic work focuses on the cross-media interactive art of art and science, exploring and practicing the intersecting points between the real and virtual worlds, including game art, interactive art, mechanical devices, media theater, etc. The "Low Tech Art Lab" founded focuses on the integration of current media culture and interdisciplinary, art experiments based on electronic virtual environment, exploring the interaction of light and motion, algorithmic aesthetics of machine vision system, and perceptual system of installation art of calculable media.

Low AI Box by Zheng Da

Art is essentially a social behavior, and as people become more and more dependent on the Internet for their social lives, putting their collections on the chain will be the trend of the future. Encryption art, the future can be expected.

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