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Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts
Dissertation (MA (Digital Culture & Media))--University of Pretoria, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/91343 Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts Adendorff, Adéle jethrotim@gmail.com Gawaya, Timothy Crypto Art Non-Fungible Tokens Blockchain Decentralisation UCTD Dissertation (MA (Digital Culture & Media))--University of Pretoria, 2023. This study surveys the emergent artistic phenomenon identified as Crypto Art in relation to a perceived artistic decentralisation immanent to the orientation. Crypto Art delineates an artistic orientation predicated on the construction and artificialisation of digital ephemera under the construct of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In a word, NFTs refer to cryptographically secure certificates of ownership over digital assets (Sidley and Dingle 2022, 132-133). These certificates of ownership are recorded and verified on a distributed digital database known as a blockchain. Crypto Art applies the NFT construct to digital artworks, classifying them as fundamentally unique and singular in their presentation and framework. Moreover, Crypto Art assumes the blockchain’s technologically decentralised architecture towards an artistic decentralisation. That is, blockchains have no central custodians and as such are envisioned as replacing human systems predicated on centralised power crystallisations. As an artistic orientation, Crypto Art attempts to bypass the role of intermediating actors – such as galleries and museums – towards a technologically mediated form of autonomous interaction. As such, this study considers the extent to which Crypto Art, through the construct of NFTs located on the blockchain, facilitates an artistic decentralisation. National Research Foundation (NRF) Visual Arts MA (Digital Culture & Media) Unrestricted 2023-07-11T12:56:35Z 2023-07-11T12:56:35Z 2023 2023 Dissertation * S2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91343 10.25403/UPresearchdata.23603589 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Crypto Art Non-Fungible Tokens Blockchain Decentralisation UCTD Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts |
| title | Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts |
| title_full | Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts |
| title_fullStr | Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts |
| title_short | Decentralise everything : a critical analysis of crypto art and non-fungible tokens as Egalitarian artefacts |
| title_sort | decentralise everything a critical analysis of crypto art and non fungible tokens as egalitarian artefacts |
| topic | Crypto Art Non-Fungible Tokens Blockchain Decentralisation UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91343 |