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- grafician3
The Immortal (Floppy Disk Canvas), Nick Gentry (2011)
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Does Beeple Deserve a Museum Exhibition?
- I don't have a problem with it. The guy creates art every day themed with current events or social commentary. You could say 'anyone can do that' ...microkorg
- ... but isn't that the same for a lot of art?
Met him at NFC Lisbon this year and seems like a good guy generous with time and chat.microkorg - Too early to make a judgement. Bansky managed to pull it off.
In my opinion, it's about taking part in the artworld discourse.Right now he doesn't have a voicepalimpsest - Who decides?robthelad
- It's already decided, he **does** have an exhibition.
As with everything else, the rest are just comments on it.palimpsest
- palimpsest-2
Re: https://www.qbn.com/reply/413452…
# Beeple: Outside the Artworld
Beeple’s recent museum exhibition raises questions about his place in the artworld and whether NFTs, the medium tied to his rise, hold any artistic merit. While I recognize Beeple's cultural relevance, I argue that he remains outside the core discourse of the artworld. Furthermore, NFTs, despite their association with digital art, are fundamentally detached from the artistic process and represent tools of capitalist speculation rather than a legitimate art medium.
## Beeple’s Place in the Artworld
### Recognition as an Artist:
Beeple’s work reflects a keen ability to stay on top of trends and offer sharp social commentary. His pieces capture the zeitgeist of our digital and political landscapes, making him culturally relevant. This relevance alone justifies his recognition and exhibitions as a *digital artist*.### Missing Artworld Discourse:
However, being a recognized artist does not inherently place Beeple within the institutional artworld. A defining characteristic of an artist in this realm is their active participation in the artworld's discourse—critiquing, questioning, or contributing to its evolving ideas and frameworks.Artists like Banksy, who also emerged outside the institutional system, managed to integrate by addressing the artworld directly through their work, critiques, and interactions with its structures. Beeple, in contrast, has yet to engage deeply with this discourse. His work is often more about representing digital culture and trends than contributing to the philosophical or aesthetic conversations central to the artworld.
## NFTs: A Tool of Speculation, Not Art
### What NFTs Are:
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are fundamentally **tokens of ownership** rather than the artwork itself. Technically, when purchasing an NFT, one acquires a token linked to an image or file, not the image or file itself. This separation underscores their role as commodities rather than creative mediums.### Lack of Artistic Transformation:
Unlike historical innovations like oil paints or photography, which reshaped artistic practices and challenged the boundaries of art, NFTs do not offer such transformative potential.
- **Oil painting** introduced portability and precision, allowing movements like Impressionism to flourish.
- **Photography** revolutionized representation and questioned realism, redefining the artist’s role.
NFTs, in contrast, do not affect how art is created, understood, or experienced. They are tools for commodification, emphasizing scarcity and ownership over artistic innovation.### NFTs and Capitalist Speculation:
The primary function of NFTs lies in facilitating transactions and creating speculative markets. Their value is driven by scarcity and hype rather than any inherent artistic merit. This focus on market dynamics over creativity distances NFTs from the artworld’s conceptual and aesthetic concerns.## Conclusion: Beeple and NFTs in Context
Beeple deserves recognition for his contributions to digital culture and his relevance as a cultural commentator. His exhibition reflects the growing interest in digital art but should be seen as a celebration of a digital phenomenon rather than an affirmation of his place in the artworld.
Similarly, NFTs, while innovative in a technological sense, do not belong in the artworld. They do not transform art practices or contribute to artistic discourse. Instead, they represent a capitalist mechanism for trading digital assets, detached from the essence of what art is or aims to achieve.
If Beeple is to be fully integrated into the artworld, it will require a shift away from the speculative hype of NFTs and toward meaningful engagement with the artworld’s ongoing conversations about art, its purpose, and its evolving nature.
Made *with* ChatGPT
- Haven't downvoted but I do think ChatGPT is talking out its bottom here. NFTs have nothing to do with whether Beeplemicrokorg
- deserves a museum exhibit or not. Only a tiny amount of his work are NFTs but GPT is putting a big focus on that is being one of the 'against' reasons.microkorg
- I'll relay the message.
The article makes an argument for NFTs:
His NFT Everydays: The First 5000 Days, which sold at Christie’s in 2021 for a historic $69.3 mpalimpsest - And ChatGPT just told me to say that Beeple's work cannot be dissociate from the NFT hype.palimpsest
- It was relevant only in the context of the NFTs market. A crypto guy bought it. It was a fad. But $69M for his 15mins of fame = great ROI!grafician
- < chat was right heregrafician
- More like ChadGPT, amitite?palimpsest
- Sure, you just asked it.grafician
- grafician-1
- o, it's paintings...I should start painting ai generated lolcubes
https://www.qbn.com/…uan
- o, it's paintings...I should start painting ai generated lolcubes
