Category: KChain
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The hand signing the file
When authenticity ceases to be a judgement and becomes signed metadata. In a previous text, I maintained that in the age of AI-driven suspicion, the value of the handmade shifts from the surface of the image to its provenance: it is not the hand that holds more value, but the hand that...
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Post-NFT Digital Art. Infrastructure, Archive, and Recognition III
Recognition. Institutions, market and canon. This entry concludes the series. Entry I examined provenance—what renders a digital work identifiable as a work—through the case of the artist romainiti and the closure of Foundation. Entry II addressed persistence—what is required for a work to endure and continue...
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Post-NFT Digital Art. Infrastructure, Archive, and Recognition II
Persistence. Archive, custody and the duration of digital art. This research examines, from the perspective of curatorial practice and collecting, what remains of tokenised digital art following the collapse of the speculative NFT market. Entry I examined the first dimension of the triadic framework—provenance, persistence and recognition—through the case of the artist romainiti and...
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Post-NFT Digital Art. Infrastructure, Archive, and Recognition I
Provenance. The Romainiti case. Introduction to the series. This research examines, from the perspective of curatorial practice and collecting, what remains of tokenised digital art following the collapse of the speculative NFT market. The series is developed across three entries that articulate three dimensions of a single problem: provenance, persistence and recognition. The present text, the first of...