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Last day in HK. Beautiful city and much to reflect on for how we can continue to build this ecosystem as a collective. One of my big takeaways is just how obvious it is becoming *to the world* that digital art is the art of this era. It is the most accessible and engaging format, and the only with the surface area to invite real co-creation. But it is also the work that is asking the most important questions of the moment - questions humanity at scale are now confronted with trying to answer. Namely, how do we resolve the increasing ubiquity of agents and models and algorithms in our daily lives and what does it mean for human agency and human-technology collaboration? It’s also clear to me that this ecosystem is replete with some of the (1) best humans, and (2) hardest working people I have ever encountered. The artists and gallerists literally work morning to night on the presentation and communication of their work. In most cases there is a beautiful dance between artist and gallery - iterating over the course of the week together, supporting each other, and often taking a brief moment to exhale together over quick food and drink to end the day. In terms of the HK market in particular - this seems like the single largest opportunity for the expansion of digital art practices. I expect this ecosystem to grow massively in Asia in the coming 12-24 months. Salute to all who showed up with so much integrity and hard work this week to help amplify the voices of these artists. These are the early days of a digital art renaissance.

Imagine I told you five years ago we would one day be showing art at Art Basel in Hong Kong It would be so popular that crowds of tens of thousands would fill up the space and there was no room to even walk Wake up It’s not a dream This is just a start This is how we build

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Moment for the history books 🥳

How Digital Art was Bought & Displayed in the Early 2000s "A new generation of artists and gallery owners wants you to think of [televisions] as something else: an empty picture frame. Purveyors of a relatively new genre, so-called digital art, aim to fill that blank screen." Quote from 'Digital art sellers aiming to fill blank TV screens' by Andrea Petersen for The Wall Street Journal, Feb 2005 // Clip from AP covering Whitney Museums 2001 Bitstreams exhibition.

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Dear artists, Curators and collectors are trying to find your work, so PLEASE do yourself a favor and do the following: 1. Have a link in your bio to your available work! No one wants to have to look for hours through your feed to see if they can find a link to a piece or go through every platform searching for you. 2. If you have a Linktree: great — but please update it. Again, having tons of expired or broken links is very confusing and frustrating. Update it and keep it current. 3. Have a webpage. You can do something very simple with AI or with any web-building tool. Something that says who you are, what your practice is like, shares your overall work, and shows your available work. Again, make it easy for a collector to fall in love with you. 4. In your X bio, have something that makes sense (or points to something that makes sense, like a website). If they’re looking at your X profile, chances are something caught their attention or someone recommended you. Let them know who you are as an artist. 5. Please put prices on your pieces! It is very hard for a collector to offer to buy without knowing your price point. They don’t want to go too high, but they definitely don’t want to go too low and offend you. Take the guessing out of it. State your price (and adjust accordingly). If you don’t want to do this on a platform, at least do it on your webpage so collectors can understand your general price range. 6. Have some sort of pricing strategy that you can stand behind. Don’t make it seem like you have completely different pricing depending on which platform the collector finds you on. Do all your pieces have to have the same price? Absolutely not. Is it based on how much time you put into the piece? No. It is based on what you believe the piece is worth. Make it make sense to you, and it will make sense to a collector — but be consistent. 7. And lastly, be active. I don’t mean you have to post 10 times a day or that you even have to have new work. But if a collector sees that you’ve had no activity for over six months, they might assume things have changed and you’re no longer interested in selling. Most collectors want to buy beautiful work, but they also want to support an artist’s journey. If you’re no longer interested in the journey, they might not be either. Rooting for all of you artists out there! The bear market is tough but there are many people looking for your work! 🫂❤️

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." - Twyla Tharp

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My introductory text for @XCOPYART, in TASCHEN’s On NFTs book. “In every movement, an artist and a work come along that perfectly encapsulate its story and ethos. For NFTs and crypto art, that artist is XCOPY, and that work is Right-click and Save As Guy (2018). As one of the first artists to put art on a blockchain, and before that, pioneering the aggressive "glitch art" style on his now infamous Tumblr blog, XCOPY was the first to capture the meme of the moment in a minted artwork. Today, as NFTs begin to dominate mainstream conversation, you hear it more than ever—"Why would I buy it when I can right click and save as?" Generative artist Dmitri Cherniak perfectly sums up the sentiment around the meme, describing the term "Right-click and Save As" as "synonymous both as a critique as well as a booster of NFTs, and this seminal piece has pushed that meme further than we ever could have imagined." He continues to say, "To me, XCOPY is crypto art. When folks describe early crypto art as glitchy, flashy, and eclectic, whether they know it or not, they are referencing XCOPY's dominant influence on the genre." One needs only to look at the thousands of derivatives this work has spawned to understand its influence on the NFT psyche. As a notable collector of NFTs, and humble steward of XCOPY's Right-click and Save As Guy, the meme has followed me personally as I have built my collection. However, I see it not as a warning sign of the fragility of NFTs, but a reminder of the deep consensus this community has built up around the shared value of NFTs as unique digital artworks on the blockchain. In this, Right-click and Save As Guy is an artistic co-opting of our detractors, a portrait of the establishment NFTs are meant to disrupt. It is my hope this piece will forever inspire new artists to create digital art that can be right-click saved but that instead, people will choose to left-click own.”

Less than 18 hours in Vienna, but still managed to drink Aperols with @pyth_brc at the @KuCoinEU opening, visit the @thedoomedxyz show with @ross_dallbricht, and even steal a kiss at @belvederemuseum with Elisabeth from @validvent. Definitely need to come back soon.

Huge congrats my dear❤️🥳😘

You can’t build a “contemporary” art collection, without collecting digital

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There are a lot of cosplayers here and than there is @NaughtalieStone who is as real as they get I highly advise you to read this great essay on how we can do this right Glad that @ethereum leaders embracing the importance that art has on onchain culture This is how we build

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had a chat with Artnet news about all things digital art. 🫡

A Selection of Digital Art Display Innovations from CES 2026 1) Samsung introduces the first 'true' Digital Art Canvas 2) Inkposter introduces E-ink Digital Frames 3) Layer/Qualcomm introduce the first 'Generative Display' that processes the artwork's code in realtime