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On social media, agreements are tenuous and alliances fleeting. It pays to be as incendiary as possible conflict drives more engagement than politesse or coöperation. But, at the beginning of May, Kyle Swenson, a twenty-five-year-old clothing reseller in Orlando, Florida, noticed a shift in the tone of his Twitter feed. An increasing number of accounts that he followed were changing their avatars to cartoons of apes: apes sporting sunglasses or bunny ears, apes with leopard-patterned or rainbow fur, apes smoking cigars or shooting laser beams from their eyes. Many wore blasé expressions or toothy grimaces. Some had cigarettes dangling from their mouths, or the red eyes of the deeply stoned. Amid the Twitter melee, the apes were chatting among themselves, chill and supportive. The avatars came from a Web site called Bored Ape Yacht Club, which had officially launched on April 30th, offering ten thousand unique iterations of the cartoon primates for sale a
First NFT work registered to the Vastari exhibition platform
Lakoubay believes in crypto-art and NFTs as a new art movement.
LONDON
.- Seasoned crypto-collector Fanny Lakoubay registered the first NFT-based artwork on the online exhibition loan database operated by Vastari, representing a new milestone for the growing non-fungible token industry . The work Imago 2k2 a.C. by artist duo Hackatao will now be accessible to museums for loan opportunities.
Vastaris database facilitates the exchange of objects in private hands with museums who wish to exhibit them. Vastari facilitated over $2bn of (physical) content matches with venues in 2019-2020. But how are these digital artworks on a token meant to be exhibited within museum spaces? Do artists wish for their works to be shown within museum walls, or do they expect them to live in the ether? Is there a physical manifestation for these works?