🎨 ON THIS DAY IN CRYPTOART HISTORY...
30 August 2017 - Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility by Mitchell F Chan is minted at InterAccess in Toronto. As one of the earliest NFT artworks exhibited in a legacy gallery, it reimagines Yves Klein’s conceptual project by exploring how NFTs can separate an artwork's commodity form from its experience, transforming the relationship between collectors and art.
🖼️ Today in CryptoArt History:
22 July 2014 - Rhea Myers creates “This Contract is Art,” a conceptual piece where a smart contract can determines its own artistic status. Anyone could click, pay the gas fee, and decide its fate.
🎨 Today in CryptoArt History:
🗓️ 18 July 2018 - The traditional art world is first introduced to CryptoArt at the Christie’s Art & Tech Summit 2018 by Artnome, Anne Bracegirdle, John Zettler, Matt Hall, & Judy Mam with a lukewarm response.
Attendees were gifted a card to mint a frame of Robbie Barrat’s "AI-Generated Nude Portrait #7" on SuperRare. Robbie's artworks were extraordinary technological and artistic feats, created using neural networks trained on classical nude paintings.
Of the 300 of Robbie's artworks given away, only 36 have been claimed, sparking a treasure hunt among CryptoArt enthusiasts. The remaining 264 are still unclaimed, being dubbed the "Lost Robbies."
📚TODAY IN CRYPTO HISTORY🤓
Today, we look back to July 12, 2017, when a bold sign saying "Buy Bitcoin" appeared during Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony. This moment signaled the epic 2017 price spike for Bitcoin and Ethereum!
