With the evolution of new technologies, art enriches its language, exploring new ways of expression and financing. Blockchain has given birth to a new artistic category: crypto art.
The decentralization of money as a tool to measure value allows artists to disintermediate the process of commercializing their creations. Blockchain offers the possibility of dispensing with intermediaries by providing direct transactions between creator and buyer. Simultaneously, it adds the possibility of tokenizing works of art, both physical and digital, endowing artistic assets with a unique identity that is impossible to falsify.
In this article we continue to reflect the concerns of crypto artists regarding the tokenization of their artworks. These statements and many others can be read in the group of crypto artists that we share in Telegram. If you are interested in this topic, you can also read the previous article: «Crypto Art: Blockchain and New Challenges for Artists».
Plagiarism of works
First, one of the biggest problems artists face is the plagiarism of their works by unscrupulous people seeking to profit from the efforts of others. Will blockchain solve it? Only time will tell. ䷰䷸䷣䷝䷞䷊䷾䷝ tells us about his experience:
«The problem I have faced first hand is getting great ideas stolen. Specifically, I shared a dream/vision for cohesion which was more autonomous and decentralized online/blockchain version of a centrally important social structure. Instead of working with me to accomplish the initiation of this project, a perspective teammate intellectually invited himself to own it and exclude me. Joke is on him because he misses the bigger picture. Yet it still kind of irks me to see the community using an uncannily similar website whose domain was registered two days after i divulged the crux.
In my honest opinion, revenge is less about naming names, and more about living well.Seeing as how the first Rare Art Festivals inspired this notion, it makes sense to do a formal write up and submit the paper for review at the sequel. [...] That being said, I still believe that mid-level agency is required and that it does not necessarily need to be of human directive.