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A digital collage created by artist Beeple sold for an eye-watering £69 million dollars and it s raised lots of questions around the future of digital art.
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A digital artist called Beeple is now one of the top three most valuable artists alive – in any medium – after he sold a JPG file of his work for US$69,346,250. Welcome to the crazy world of NFTs, and the latest wild gold rush to hit the internet.
Mike Winkelmann, AKA Beeple, is a legit digital artist, and a very prolific one. Every day, for more than 13 years, he has created a new artwork from scratch – 5,064 of them and counting, according to his website at beeple-crap.com.
He doesn t seem to think they re all that great: The purpose of this project, he writes, is to help me get better at different things. By posting the results online, I m less likely to throw down a big pile of ass-sh#t even though most of the time I still do because I suck ass. I would disagree, and so would others, it seems, since a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie s just pulled in nearly US$70 million for