TASCHEN has launched a brand new e book wanting on the phenonmen of the NFT. Robert Alice’s On NFTs is the first main artwork historic survey textual content on probably the most compelling, disruptive space of up to date artwork at this time. A rigorous and significant examination of all sides of the NFT ecosystem, On NFTs takes a multidimensional, artist-led method, leaving its readers with a richer understanding of a subject typically shrouded in false impression and pixelated thriller.
The e book, offered in TASCHEN’s iconic grand-scale BABY SUMO format and housed in a bespoke stainless-steel slipcase, covers a big selection of important data for each these new to or skilled with the fashionable medium. That includes 10 essays from the world’s main voices in artwork and the blockchain, together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, On NFTs is a e book that celebrates unlikely and thought-provoking connections from throughout artwork historical past. Count on illustrations of Rembrandt work alongside CryptoPunk avatars alside Damien Hirst, intensive essays explaining the nitty-gritty world of NFTs—together with Sol LeWitt’s affect on at this time’s inventive algorithms—in addition to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the artistic processes of pioneering artists from Beeple and Emily Xie to Snowfro and Refik Anadol.
Accompanying the ten essays, On NFTs presents a co-curated survey of 101 key practices working in NFTs at this time. With every profile uniquely authored by handpicked consultants, together with curators, critics, artists, and AI, On NFTs embraces various and world voices to navigate this borderless motion. Excellent for each natives and newcomers, On NFTs options an intensive glossary of key phrases, and a complete exhibition historical past and timeline of the digital artwork canon.
The Onerous Code Version is elegantly housed in a handcrafted, sculptural stainless-steel case designed by Zak Group in London. The Onerous Code Version (No. 1–600), every copy numbered and housed in a stainless-steel slipcase.
Additionally out there in a Collector’s Version and in 4 restricted Artwork Editions, 100 of every, from artists Refik Anadol, Dmitri Cherniak, Sofia Crespo, and Osinachi: every with an NFT and an accompanying print of the NFT, signed by the artist, and the e book On NFTs in a stainless-steel slipcase.
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Robert Alice makes artwork, exhibitions, and books that discover blockchains and their histories. The primary artist to public sale an NFT at a significant public sale home, their work Portraits of a Thoughts (2019–) was pivotal to the NFT house’s development. In 2023, the Monnaie de Paris held one of many first European museum solo NFT exhibits on their work. In 2022, Alice, who lectures globally, co-produced the primary tutorial convention on NFTs on the College of Oxford. Alice’s work is a part of the everlasting collections of a number of establishments, together with the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
On NFTs. The Onerous Code Version
Hardcover quantity in stainless-steel slipcase, 36 x 50 cm, 14.6 kg, 604 pages, with a booklet, 21 x 29.7 cm, 24 pages ISBN 978-3-8365-9970-2Edition: English
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Version: English Availability: March twenty ninth, 2024
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