Dissecting the human condition | Concept above all | 🟧 @vivid_ordinals partner artist: vivid.gallery/artists/doct
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CENTS brought Ordinals into UCCA, one of the world’s leading contemporary art institutions.
CENTS was selected by Christie’s for Beyond the Screen, a highly curated digital art auction that positioned digital art within the wider contemporary art landscape.
CENTS is the only ordinal that has a chapter in TASCHEN’s On NFTs and it has been written about by Frieze, Monopol, e-flux, Bitcoin Magazine, Art in America …
… and I’m not even talking about the community yet :-)
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AI Feels Like 1999 All Over Again 🔄
👉 We’ve seen this movie before!
As someone who was already on the brink of adulthood when the dot-com bubble burst, the current AI moment feels deeply familiar.
We witnessed the birth of the internet in real time. The hype. The impossible valuations. The belief that every company with a website would change the world overnight.
Then the bubble burst.
But the Internet wasn’t just that bubble.
What survived after the collapse became the foundation of modern life:
Google, Amazon, digital infrastructure, social media, cloud computing - an entirely new reality emerged from the wreckage.
The bubble was real. 🫧
But the technology was real too. ✅
👉 AI is probably both!
That’s exactly how I currently see AI.
The enthusiasm, capital, and expectations seem massively ahead of actual capabilities and - perhaps more importantly - sustainable business models.
It feels like many people assume we’ll skip directly to the “world-changing dominance” phase without passing through the inevitable correction first.
A lot of today’s AI valuations feel less like mature ecosystems and more like pre-bubble psychology.
After the crash comes the real revolution.
That’s why I’m convinced something extraordinary will remain after the dust settles.
Just like the internet survived the dot-com collapse and ultimately transformed nearly every aspect of human life, AI will likely do the same.
The question is not whether AI matters.
The question is whether we are currently pricing the future as if it has already arrived. 🤔
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Digital art is born inside a machine, but the machine does not feel terror, doubt, hunger, death. The artist does.
That is why most digital images disappear the second after they are seen on the timeline. They are decoration without consequence.
People still laugh at digital art because it has no weight, no smell of oil paint, no centuries of dust attached to it. Good. Let them laugh. Painting was once considered dead too. What matters is not the tool, but whether the work carries truth.
The tragedy of digital art is that it exists in a world drowning in images. Its importance is that, against all odds, it still tries to make us see.
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It’s exciting times!
Right now, my medical work has taken over pretty much all of my time, with some exciting changes ahead. Life is an adventure, and it feels good to build.
As an artist, I’m only now realising how much these past years with you all have shaped the way I approach things that have nothing to do with art at all. It’s more of a mindset:
Let’s try this.
Let’s test this.
Let’s experiment with how we organise processes, workflows, communication - all of it.
Creativity spilling over into very traditional settings. It feels like someone opened a window.
One lesson I’m learning: creativity isn’t confined to making art.
👉 It’s a way of thinking.
Once you develop that mindset, it changes how you approach every system, every problem, every part of life. 🌻
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GM ☕️
We are living through the most uncertain moment of our lifetime.
Not “feels like it.”
Measured.
War reshaping energy.
AI reshaping work.
Power shifting globally.
No clear direction. Only noise.
The old map is gone.
Most people are waiting for clarity.
There isn’t any coming.
Act anyway!
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