LEARNING TO SEE

🖼️: Receipt 0.1337 ETH (2022) by @0xhaiku in the collection of wilt.eth after a record 30 transfers

👀: This work elevates one of the most fundamental actions a user can perform on the blockchain—the act of transfer—and immortalises it on a digital representation of a receipt. It made me appreciate how art on the blockchain can manifest in what was to me then an entirely novel dimension: where the canvas is a network, and the brushstrokes placed upon it are our actions on that very network.

LEARNING TO SEE

🖼️: First #4191 (2021) by @deafbeef 

👀: This work probes our collective enchantment at the notion of being first. It frames firstness not as a source of authority and status, but as fictive constructs that can be parodied and lampooned. In doing so, it serves not only as an incisive commentary on the mania surrounding NFTs in 2021, but also a humbling reminder of how fuckable we continue to be—prodding on to materialise some of its fictive firsts today, even though they have long putrefied beyond recognition, rotting into an irredeemable inconsequence.

Artist exploring audiovisual and blockchain