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You seem to be using the phrase "real art" as an unstated code word for physical art, i.e. paintings, sculptures, etc. Is photography or digital art not art?
by berberous 6y ago
You seem to be using the phrase "real art" as an unstated code word for physical art, i.e. paintings, sculptures, etc.
Is photography or digital art not art?
What do you think of http://deafbeef.com http://deafbeef.com. Is that not art?
In any case, I would disagree that an NFT does _nothing_ to authenticate a physical art. While, to be sure, an unscrupulous NFT holder could theoretically swap out a physical painting it is meant to represent with a fake, a holder of a claimed-to-be-original painting surely has substantially more credence to his or her claim if they also hold the non-forgable NFT that proved they acquired it in a legitimate chain of transactions.
- crazygringo 6y agoNo I'm not, I'm using it for any kind of art. I don't know what led you to believe otherwise. (I clarified "real physical art" because those are generally, though not always, sold as unique originals rather than signed replicas.) And yes, the whole point of authentication is about unscrupulous people swapping something out. Holding an NFT lends zero additional credence precisely because that's what the fraud is -- selling the real one to someone else without the NFT, while selling a fake one to someone with the NFT, and increasing your money. NFT's provide zero protection against such art fraud. Heck, if anything they make it even easier to perpetrate if the person buying the forged work with the non-forged NFT is led to therefore naively overlook the forgery!