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One of the strangest things about the art world is the bifurcation of art sales (auction houses, collectors etc) from cultural institutions for estimating the value of artists’ works. Museum shows are vital for artists’ careers & you do get paid, moreso than most NFT drops these days, but no one talks about this. Why?

Anyway here’s Broadway World covering my solo museum exhibition of AV code art, another strange meeting of worlds 🤔

Generative artist ; @artblocks Curated 2021 ; over 2,000 days & nights of hand coded art ☀️

Maybe because the NFT scene has never been big on understanding anything outside of it? The artists who know, know. Artists emerging from NFTs will need help decrypting codes of the art world that are intentionally obfuscated.  

The language, the power relationships, how to make money, how to protect your rights... it's a lot.

Anyway, kudos on the Scottsdale show! I've only been to Scottsdale once, at night, and it struck me as a weird place. 😅

Art and code since 1994. https://linktr.ee/mariuswatz

That was not the weirdness I had in mind. I was thinking more of gated communities and displays of wealth, the "Snobsdale" of it all. Which can of course be connected to the Native American genocide, no doubt. 

I didn't have a chance to see SMoCA, sadly. I spent a few days at ASU and was taken one evening to a bro-y dubstep club in Scottsdale. So my impresssion is obviously skewed.

Scottsdale has one of the highest Native American presences in the Americas. Which definitely bucks the status quo given the genocide Europeans committed everywhere else in the Americas, which btw is still ongoing. So I guess you could call it weird. SMoCA’s also weird in that it’s not vested in g-c1d3, unlike the institutions into which some are still desperate to social climb.