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Things that are real can be touched and experienced. Original works of art are valued because they evoke a connection to the artist. A studio recording usually

Things that are real can be touched and experienced. Original works of art are valued because they evoke a connection to the artist. A studio recording usually sounds better than a live rendition, but people go to concerts because they want to feel a connection with the artist and the process of the art. NFTs aren't that. They're an empty abstraction; a hollow wisp of digital chattel representing nothing. NFTs are just gaudy cash grabs and a mockery of art in any form.

freeone3000 6y ago
And if the artist sells their art as an NFT? There's some aspects of performance, and some aspects of process, and a lot of aspects of connection.
- root_axis 6y ago
  I won't begrudge an artist for getting paid, but an NFT is not art, it's not a process, it's just worthless CPU cycles with no inherent connection to the art. This is why one can effortlessly create an NFT for anything, it's a distributed read-only text file that can contain arbitrary text.
- tasogare 6y ago
  An artist did a performance, minted a token, pretends the performance is linked to the token, then sells the token. An artist did a performance, wrote something on a piece of paper, pretends the performance is linked to the paper, then sells the paper. Both case are the same thing: if one doesn’t believe the "pretend" part the token/paper is worthless. And it really is since there is no tangible connection with the performance: it’s not a token that allows to see it, nor a recording. It’s just someone pretending something. NTF as used now for digital art are a scam.
  - freeone3000 6y ago
    This seems to me like saying bandcamp selling MP3s is a scam, since the proof of purchase is worthless and you can get the MP3 regardless! It's technically correct and misses the entire point.
  - fwip 6y ago
    Who's out there selling ownership rights on art performances?
    - porb121 6y ago
      there's multiple artists who have sold the instructions for creating a piece of art, along with a certificate that the recreation is a verified one. that was the motivation behind the banana duct taped to a wall that garnered attention at art basel a while back.
imgabe 6y ago
> Original works of art are valued because they evoke a connection to the artist. Sentimentally valued, yes. In the world of multimillion-dollar artworks, art is valued because it enables tax avoidance and money laundering. NFTs do that just as well.

freeone3000 6y ago

And if the artist sells their art as an NFT? There's some aspects of performance, and some aspects of process, and a lot of aspects of connection.

root_axis 6y ago
I won't begrudge an artist for getting paid, but an NFT is not art, it's not a process, it's just worthless CPU cycles with no inherent connection to the art. This is why one can effortlessly create an NFT for anything, it's a distributed read-only text file that can contain arbitrary text.
tasogare 6y ago
An artist did a performance, minted a token, pretends the performance is linked to the token, then sells the token. An artist did a performance, wrote something on a piece of paper, pretends the performance is linked to the paper, then sells the paper. Both case are the same thing: if one doesn’t believe the "pretend" part the token/paper is worthless. And it really is since there is no tangible connection with the performance: it’s not a token that allows to see it, nor a recording. It’s just someone pretending something. NTF as used now for digital art are a scam.
- freeone3000 6y ago
  This seems to me like saying bandcamp selling MP3s is a scam, since the proof of purchase is worthless and you can get the MP3 regardless! It's technically correct and misses the entire point.
- fwip 6y ago
  Who's out there selling ownership rights on art performances?
  - porb121 6y ago
    there's multiple artists who have sold the instructions for creating a piece of art, along with a certificate that the recreation is a verified one. that was the motivation behind the banana duct taped to a wall that garnered attention at art basel a while back.

imgabe 6y ago

> Original works of art are valued because they evoke a connection to the artist. Sentimentally valued, yes. In the world of multimillion-dollar artworks, art is valued because it enables tax avoidance and money laundering. NFTs do that just as well.