Mad Dog Jones: A Treader in the New Wave of Cryptographic Art

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Tips: In addition to Beeple at Christie's and Pak at Sotheby's, another crypto artist has landed at Fuez, the world's top auction house. He is Mad Dog Jones.

Mad Dog Jones. Photography is by Kenji 87

This auction is not as spectacular as the previous two, after all, Mad Dog Jones has a very low profile compared to Beeple, which has millions of followers, and the controversial and marketing savvy Pak. In fact, he had sold thousands of crypto art works before he came to Fuisi, with a total value of $14.67 million and an average price of $9,366.02.

And the low-key Mad Dog Jones' Replicator sold at Fuzzi for about $4.1 million. Although the $4.1 million was much smaller than the $69.34 million that Beeple sold at Christie's and the $16.6 million that Pak sold at Sotheby's, the work was not inferior, and some people said that compared with the work of Beeple and Pak, The Replicator really navigates the artistic medium of the NFT, and Fuchs has written a long essay about it in an effort to make sense of its novel and unique mechanics.NFT Time Machine Replicator).

Replicator. Mad Dog Jones

After the Fuarts sale, the frenzied crypto art market quietened down, and Rhythm Blockbeats spoke with crypto artist Mad Dog Jones and Fuarts' senior specialist in 20th century and contemporary art, Rebekah Bowling, I talked to them about NFT and cryptographic art.

"I'm just addicted to expression."

Mad Dog Jones has been interested in art for as long as he can remember. In his memory, he experimented with painting, violin, music making, graffiti, and other artistic activities based on them. He started making music when he was very young, and the other thing he was passionate about was making visual art.

"I'm just addicted to expression." Mad Dog Jones.

As with most young people, the Mad Dog Jones's childhood was spent in countless anime accompanied, and anime from Japan brought great impact on the Canadian artist, let him to Japan and developed an interest in Japanese culture, this also affected his artistic creation, created his unique artistic style.

A Grain of Sand. Mad Dog Jones

You can't look at Mad Dog Jones's work without saying, "This is so Japanese." It's hard to believe these works were made by a Canadian artist.

"I've always thought of Japan as the frontier of futuristic culture." In the eyes of Mad Dog Jones, Japan is the most cyberpunk place. You can see people's preference for bright and strong colors and the pursuit of unified urban architectural style in cities. Like any artist, Mad Dog Jones wants to magnify the best in his art, and in his view, Japan is a "truly beautiful place".

Scattered houses, flashing neon signs, and sumptuous Japanese ramen, Mad Dog Jones reshuffles and reassembles all the things that are deeply Japanese into one stunning piece after another.

Best Friends Forever, Mad Dog Jones

"Encryption art is no different from traditional art, it's all art."

Like many artists, Mad Dog Jones first learned about cryptocurrencies and NFT, which were recommended by friends, and when he first released his work, he was intrigued to see if it would be recognized.

When asked about the differences between crypto art and traditional art after entering the crypto field, Mad Dog Jones said: "Honestly, I think it's very small, it's just a different group of artists, crypto art is no different from traditional art, it's all art."

Many people like to regard cryptographic art and traditional art as two art forms of binary opposition, but in the eyes of Mad Dog Jones, there is no conflict or contradiction between them. They are the artistic expression of various artists, but the artists have chosen different carrying media, such as canvas, rice paper and NFT.

Mad Dog Jones is not content to simply link digital art. He is constantly exploring the artistic expression that best fits the medium of "NFT" and what else can be done with NFT technology.

If only NFT technology is used to confirm rights and verify the scarcity of digital art works, it is actually a waste of the characteristics of NFT as an art medium. Mad Dog Jones is very clear on this point, and he is exploring the boundaries of NFT art step by step.

For example, he once sold a series of works on the Nifty Gateway called "Creativity is Money". At first glance, it seems to be unremarkable. The name seems to express the idea that artists can make money by their creativity. The "currency" what is the meaning of "currency" itself, the collector can collect some of this series of works, to exchange Mad Dog Jones, a series of works, and this is no longer just a series of works are works of art, but also the function of the artists, collectors, gives the common currency, and after the change, The collection of works that the collector used for exchange will also be destroyed, and the "money" has really been spent.

Another example is Mad Dog Jones' Replicator, which, in addition to being beautifully created, is also unique in its gameplay and concept. "Replicator" means photocopier, which is both the subject of the painting and the mechanism of the work. This piece will periodically produce a brand new piece, and the new piece will automatically appear in the collector's wallet and the new piece will periodically produce the next generation of works. There is also the possibility that the copy machine will get stuck at random, meaning that the new copy machine will not be able to produce the next generation.

"I want to make NFT meaningful as an artistic medium." Talking about why he created Replicator, Mad Dog Jones said that the most fascinating thing about new mechanics and new ideas is that some of them will be great works of art, some will be just fun, and some will fail. Mad Dog Jones can't say exactly how he came up with these interesting ideas, but he especially wants to thank his team: "I would like to thank my team, Wilkins Chung, Richerd Chan and Kenshi Arasaki, who all played an extremely important role in bringing my idea to the ground."

That's why Fuez chose to work with Mad Dog Jones. Commenting on Replicator, Rebekah Bowling, senior 20th century and contemporary art specialist at Fuarts, said: "What excises me most about this work is the relationship between the artistic medium and the art form. This concept would not have been possible without the NFT." It would have been impossible to create this work without NFT as the artistic medium. Mad Dog Jones is a pioneer in the field of crypto art. His works are not only digital works of art on the chain, but also complete "NFT works".

From this point you can see the criteria Fuchs uses to select its partner crypto artists: bold and innovative and used to explore the boundaries of artistic expression using NFT as an artistic medium.

"Be yourself."

It is hard to say whether the current environment of crypto art is still in a healthy state. The influx of a large number of "artists" makes the crypto art market extremely crowded, and the lack of buyers also makes the works of most artists fall into a state of unsalable, and some artists choose to quit and curse NFT. And some artists are starting to research what crypto art is selling well.

So a lot of graphic artists started to learn 3D modeling, and vintage artists started to create science fiction... Is there really a thriving crypto art market where they give up the style they love and excel in to cater to the current crypto art buyers?

Mad Dog Jones doesn't have much to say about crypto artists, except to say, "Be yourself."

Citrus, Mad Dog Jones

There is a lot of "homogenized" "non-homogenized token (NFT)" art on the market right now, which is a bogus boom, very ironic.

Mad Dog Jones sees this as a sign of the dynamism of the entire NFT space, despite what many believe is a glut of overpriced crypto art on the market, and the fact that some of the best known crypto artists are not living up to their name. Indeed, only a vibrant field can be questioned and debated, and the fact that everything goes along with mixed reviews is at least proof that the NFT is still moving in the right direction.

"I don't know if we will ever know the true value of these works, but time will tell," Mad Dog Jones said.

NFT is still in its early stages, and all participants in the NFT space, whether artists, collectors or platforms, are looking forward to NFT's growth and greater opportunities in the field.

Encryption artistic development, ones gave the traditional auction houses a great opportunity, they can give their collectors groups continue to expand, to include the Z generation collector in their own circles, but also gives the best encryption artists a chance to traditional auction houses will provide support for them, and let more traditional art collectors to recognize them.

Rebekah Bowling also believes that NFT is one of the most cutting-edge and innovative technologies that "challenge what we know about art", and because of this, In the future there will be more and Mad Dog like Jones, a very innovative and pioneering spirit of the artist, will be more and more attention, and they will not be limited to the existing form of art and creativity, but will continue to innovation, challenge the border of NFT combined with art, and this is the artist should do in the new era.

"At this point, no one knows the future of NFT."

As Rebekah Bowling notes, no one can say for sure what the future holds for this new technology. Mad Dog Jones also admitted that NFT is just beginning to develop, and it is definitely not limited to the "crypto art" application. There will be more areas to use NFT technology.

And encryption art and other fields, NFT will rapid development, and every one of us needs to do is study hard, keep up with the footsteps of time, and observing the field will be how to development is a very interesting thing, every one of us not just NFT participants now, are witnesses of history and future expectation.

Although the future is unknown, and NFT's development may be very different from what we imagined and expected, we will all participate in the birth of this new era and become the new wave of NFT.

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