New Blockchain Art Paper

Understanding the History of Blockchain Art as Incremental Innovation: For its 139th edition, the Canadian art journal Espace Art Actuel focused on blockchain for the winter issue. I was delighted to contribute an abbreviated crypto art history, proposing a staircase model approach to better understand its evolution rather than focusing solely on isolated events or artworks.

Excerpt from my introduction text: “[…] In this essay, I synthesize five years of my research into the development of crypto art. By organizing key innovating forces in successive chapters, this essay promotes the idea of a staircase model to provide a better understanding of its incremental evolution. Additionally, it highlights how rapid capital influx led to explosive growth, and left the nascent space vulnerable to the following market slowdowns, which challenged many of the movement’s initial ideals and aspirations […].”

You can get a PDF or printed copy here, you can read more in the blog post here.

Photo: Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Production Director Gina Cortopassi, Ph.D, and artist/author Vincent Charlebois.