Art plus blockchain news
But this trust keeps being tested, as recent forgery scandals such as the Knoedler Gallery fiasco and the case of German forger Wolfgang Beltracchi show. But this would require the trade to adopt the new technology, which it may be slow to do.
Ascribe, for example, offers artists a platform for uploading their digital works, securing their attribution and selling them.
Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley-based start-up Blockai is trying to democratise access to copyright protection. The platform allows artists to claim copyright on their work instantaneously and shows them where it is being used. Blockai also acts as a fraud deterrent. Other art-related blockchain companies include Verisart, founded by Robert Norton, the former chief executive officer of Sedition and Saatchi Online, which assigns certificates of authenticity to works of art.
The art pricing database Artprice also launched a blockchain project in May. Digital art, however, only makes up a small proportion of the art market. The real coup would be to bridge the gap between physical art and blockchain. George McDonaugh, a blockchain entrepreneur, offers a solution by combining it with tagging technology. A missing chainmark could reveal that a work has been tampered with. Alternatively, fresh canvases could also be tagged with a chainmark. You could have the choice between a blockchainable canvas that attributes it to you forever, or just a regular one.
For all the excitement the new technology is generating, many believe that the dangers of running a decentralised ledger are not fully understood. Blockchain is particularly terrifying because it has such profound implications for governance, identity and global supply chains.
It is also organising regular workshops on the topic, has released a film titled Change Everything For Ever and is due to publish a related book that will be uploaded onto a blockchain. Artists are finding ways of cutting through some of the incomprehensible language around blockchain technology and making the topic visually engaging. The show, which is a sequel to his display at the Berlin Biennale, looks at three major blockchain companies through the lens of the world-conquering board game.
It at least has a utopian bent to it. Whether the mainstream art world embraces blockchain technology remains to be seen. For more information, contact info theartnewspaper. In the art world, blockchain technology may hold the key to overcoming one of its greatest challenges: Frequently described as the last unregulated market, the art world often operates on trust alone.
But this trust keeps being tested, as recent forgery scandals such as the Knoedler Gallery fiasco and the case of German forger Wolfgang Beltracchi show. But this would require the trade to adopt the new technology, which it may be slow to do. Ascribe, for example, offers artists a platform for uploading their digital works, securing their attribution and selling them.
Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley-based start-up Blockai is trying to democratise access to copyright protection. The platform allows artists to claim copyright on their work instantaneously and shows them where it is being used. Blockai also acts as a fraud deterrent. Other art-related blockchain companies include Verisart, founded by Robert Norton, the former chief executive officer of Sedition and Saatchi Online, which assigns certificates of authenticity to works of art.
The art pricing database Artprice also launched a blockchain project in May. Digital art, however, only makes up a small proportion of the art market. The real coup would be to bridge the gap between physical art and blockchain.
George McDonaugh, a blockchain entrepreneur, offers a solution by combining it with tagging technology. A missing chainmark could reveal that a work has been tampered with. Alternatively, fresh canvases could also be tagged with a chainmark. You could have the choice between a blockchainable canvas that attributes it to you forever, or just a regular one. For all the excitement the new technology is generating, many believe that the dangers of running a decentralised ledger are not fully understood.
Blockchain is particularly terrifying because it has such profound implications for governance, identity and global supply chains. It is also organising regular workshops on the topic, has released a film titled Change Everything For Ever and is due to publish a related book that will be uploaded onto a blockchain. Artists are finding ways of cutting through some of the incomprehensible language around blockchain technology and making the topic visually engaging.
The show, which is a sequel to his display at the Berlin Biennale, looks at three major blockchain companies through the lens of the world-conquering board game. It at least has a utopian bent to it. Whether the mainstream art world embraces blockchain technology remains to be seen.