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Art on Ethereum: a new series where we cover the latest news & give voices from the community a stage to share their ideas, stories, and visions Yesterday’s guest: 113, artist & co-creator of mathcastles With @lukeweaver.eth & @henry 🧵1/24 https://x.com/i/spaces/1OyKALBoVozxb
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🧵2/24 - 113: OG digital artist 113 joined the Ethereum crowdsale in 2014 as a broke artist. Didn’t speculate, just wanted to use the tech. Ethereum called itself a “world computer”, but what kind of computer could it be?
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🧵3/24 - What is Ethereum, really? It’s not just a ledger. It’s a single virtual computer. A public, persistent machine where you can run programs, indefinitely. If Bitcoin is money, Ethereum is a programmable civilization.
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🧵4/24 - Ethereum as a sculpture garden “Some of us began to see Ethereum as a world computer sculpture garden. Programs on Ethereum are sculptures - permanent, running artworks.”
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🧵5/24 - What Makes CryptoPunks Great? It’s not just the images. It’s the program, unstoppable trading logic that lives onchain. “Punks are Warholian not because they look like Warhol, but because the trading logic is the art.”
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🧵6/24 - Crypto Art ≠ Finished What if the most important art on Ethereum hasn’t been made yet? What if everything, including CryptoPunks, is just the warm-up? The real art history is still to come.
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🧵7/24 - The Bar Is Xerox PARC “My favorite artist is Xerox PARC.” They didn’t just build tools, they reimagined what computing could be. Ethereum art should aim that high.
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🧵8/24 - Ethereum Is Infrastructure for Art It’s not a speculative platform, it’s a medium. Like books, film, or vinyl, but more powerful. Ethereum is an art substrate.
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🧵9/24 - Constraints = Opportunity Early Ethereum couldn’t do much. But like Game Boys or calculators, artists explored its constraints. Great art often comes from constraint, not abundance.
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🧵10/24 - What’s the Real Medium Here? Not JPEGs. Not marketplaces. The true Ethereum-native medium is: - Crypto-economic programs - Smart contracts - Autonomous art that acts and persists
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🧵11/24 - Why Art Needs Ethereum Because institutions won’t keep up. Museums, galleries, academia - they’re slow, gatekept, and not built for computation. Ethereum is fast, open, composable.
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🧵12/24 - No Experts. No Safety Net. There are no experts in this new medium. Artists must hold themselves to impossible standards. No one else will.
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🧵13/24 - Build New Art Institutions Ethereum doesn’t need old ones. We can create new institutions - built onchain, funded by crypto, shaped by community. Ethereum is the city now.
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🧵14/24 - The Crypto Art Scene Is Stuck “People are hypnotized by what looks like art.” - Too many mimic TradArt tropes - Too few explore Ethereum’s unique materials - Too much friendship, not enough rigor
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🧵15/24 - Real Art Requires Will You have to: - Exit the current context - Explore the substrate deeply - Imagine new frontiers That takes years, and most aren’t willing
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