Assignment | Final Projects (McGinley): NFTs & Art

... starting off a conversation about NFTs which has covered a wide range of issues, including: the contested relationship between art and the market, the long debated question of collective and/or individual authorship within digital aesthetics, the most recent developments in AI and their creative potential with regard to NFTs and, lastly, the role of cryptocurrencies as a tool for artists' empowerment or, conversely, as a selling out...

...the merging of the tech, artistic, and financial worlds creates new opportunities for artists to further test our understanding of what exactly constitutes art. As artists increasingly express themselves through NFTs, will their moral rights be protected?

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"In order to survive market downturns and have lasting value, NFTs need to be either historically relevant such as first-edition Pokémon cards, true art or provide genuine utility, they said in the report."