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26 Mar 2022
13/ It therefore seemed fitting to use this occasion of the auction and sale of the 70 @spike_art Covers (in particular its web3 issue), to announce we discontinue the activities of left gallery in the capacity is has had.
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left gallery retweeted
26 Aug 2022
🎁 All holders of opensea.io/collection/autobr… can have their token image be replaced to one of the 20.000 pieces from the full genealogy of deathimitateslanguage.harmva…
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10 May 2022
To stay informed about NFT drops, you might like to follow this telegram channel t.me/harmvandendorpel
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left gallery retweeted
4 May 2022
𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁.𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆
Wow, it's the end of an era! Iconic net.art gallery @leftgallery is shuttering its virtual doors. We sat down with Founder @harmvddorpel to talk about the legacy of Left, and what's next.
outland.art/left-gallery/
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31 Mar 2022
A week after the @ourZORA x @leftgallery auction that got this party started, we're weighing in with some reflections on our first experience selling NFTs.
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Read here:
spikeartmagazine.com/?q=arti…
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5/7 @spike_art Magazine partners with @leftgallery for an NFT collection selling all 70 magazine covers from its 15-year history, minted via @ourZORA.
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26 Mar 2022
9/ However: over the years it turned out to be nearly impossible to distribute apps to mobile devices or e-books to e-readers without using the wallet gardens of app stores, which take significant cuts on sales and employ harsh censorship of content and restrict functionality.
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26 Mar 2022
15/ And in particular we love to thank all artists, curators, collectors for their support and trust over the years.
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14/ We will continue to offer support, host, and seed IPFS hashes for the artworks we have sold.
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26 Mar 2022
11/ Co-founder @palomarodriguez has shifted her primary focus on intercultural conflict mediation and coaching frameshift.berlin/
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26 Mar 2022
10/ Now, in 2022, there clearly are many minting and sales platforms for NFTs, and a huge and exciting market has emerged for these artworks.
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26 Mar 2022
8/ We wanted to create a curatorial context and technical infrastructure to disseminate and monetise digital artworks and software art, and support artists.
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26 Mar 2022
7/ At the time, few were interested or understood the potential of crypto tech to question, improve, and correct the power structures of the internet.
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26 Mar 2022
6/ The foregrounding of the dish’s colonial origins not only placed an elided aspect of European history in the spotlight, but also sought to explore the quasi colonial relations that are built into the Internet’s infrastructure, a mentality we wanted to confront and oppose.
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26 Mar 2022
5/ The event was accompanied by a meal prepared by @harmvddorpel consisting of "gado gado" — Indonesian specialties which became familiar to Europeans as the advance of Dutch colonialism subsumed the territory known today as Indonesia.
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26 Mar 2022
4/ The offering of that work marked the first recorded occasion on which an artwork was purchased by a museum using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
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3/ That event marked the official launch of the gallery, which had been in operation since 2015, and grew out of the experience presenting the work "Event Listeners" to the Austrian Museum of Applied and Contemporary Arts (MAK) @MAKWien
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26 Mar 2022
2/ Seeking to extend the precedents set by galleries like @cointemporary we became a blockchain-based platform for the display and dissemination of downloadable objects.
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