
Domenico Quaranta, Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain & NFTs, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubliana 2022. The book is for sale again on Metalabel in a limited run of 19 copies!
RIDING THE WAVE OF AN ONGOING DEBATE, SURFING CON SATOSHI FACES A SERIES OF STILL OPEN QUESTIONS, SUCH AS: WHAT DOES ART HAVE TO DO WITH THE BLOCKCHAIN? DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO TALK ABOUT “CRYPTO ART”? WHAT DEFINES IT, APART FROM THE WAY IT IS TRADED? WHAT IS THERE IN THIS WORLD, BESIDES SPECULATION? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO ATTRIBUTE THE CHARACTER OF UNIQUENESS TO AN INFINITELY REPRODUCIBLE DIGITAL FILE? WILL THE PROMISE OF DISINTERMEDIATION OF THE BLOCKCHAIN DESTROY THE WORLD OF ART AS WE KNOW IT? HOW IS THE ART WORLD REACTING? ARE NFTS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS OR A SCAM AGAINST ARTISTS? WHO ARE THE COLLECTORS WILLING TO PAY MILLIONS FOR A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, AND WHY DO THEY DO IT? WHY DO THE VISUAL ARTS SEEM TO HAVE ACQUIRED SUCH A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE CRYPTOCURRENCY ECONOMY?
Domenico Quaranta, Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain & NFTs, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubliana 2022. The book is for sale again on Metalabel in a limited run of 19 copies!
I’m happy and proud to announce that my book Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain and NFTs is now available in English! Scheduled for release on May 25, the book can be pre-ordered on Aksioma’s online store with free shipping, alone or in a special combo with Hyperemployment. Post-work, Online Labour and Automation (2019), funnily named “Combo 40”.
Produced and published by Aksioma, Ljubljana, Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain and NFTs is the English version of my book Surfing con Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT, published in Italian by Postmedia Books in June 2021. Printed in a limited release of 300 copies, this English version features a new design by Superness, color plates and a “Foreword to the English Edition” that offers a major update of the book, and that can be downloaded for free from this link.
Domenico Quaranta, Surfing con Satoshi. Arte, blockchain e NFT, Postmedia Books, Milan 2021. 250 pp., 87 ill., 220 x 140 mm, isbn 9788874903030. Italian.
Abstract and Index: Italian / English
Introduction: Italian / English (Medium)
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