Dans un horrible rebondissement orwellien, la prochaine vente aux enchères en NFT d’un dessin de Jean-Michel Basquiat permettra au gagnant de détruire l’œuvre originale.
La soif de NFT – œuvres d’art intangibles, numériques ou «jetons non fongibles» – a déjà récemment abouti à l’incendie d’une pièce de Banksy pour que sa valeur (apparemment supérieure à 95 000 $) soit confinée en toute sécurité au domaine numérique. Désormais, l’œuvre Free Comb with Pagoda (1986) de Basquiat est la dernière victime potentielle du désir iconoclaste des collectionneurs d’acquérir de l’art en tant qu’actifs numériques exclusifs aux dépens des originaux.
L’œuvre de l’artiste légendaire sera vendue sur OpenSea, où les enchères commencent à un Ethereum (l’équivalent d’environ 2500 $). À la discrétion du gagnant, le dessin physique peut alors être «déconstruit», conférant ainsi au NFT le statut de «seule forme restante» de l’œuvre.
La vente aux enchères est parrainée par Daystrom, des «provocateurs numériques» autoproclamés, qui ont collaborés avec David Bowie sur sa banque en ligne en 2000. Les fondateurs anonymes de la société de technologie apparemment néfaste ont récemment expliqué dans un communiqué en ligne : «La valeur est devenue de plus en plus fongible, diluée et instable et il y a un énorme pic de la demande d’exclusivité des utilisateurs. Les actifs de NFT offrent cette exclusivité et créent un tout nouveau système de valeur en ligne qui était auparavant inimaginable. »
Jetez un œil aux images ci-dessous pour revisiter certaines des œuvres les plus remarquables de Jean-Michel Basquiat ainsi que des portraits du légendaire artiste new-yorkais.
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![The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/196860070_809654653271496_8575323350180795315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=TP1cxbc1pQsAX_pkWMe&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=71a66c4b2a89fd0b56bcadf9811dbe52&oe=616CCE49 "The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021")
![Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/172246940_241775834361086_412793993617799165_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=NsdBJGeJdKAAX9xoVs-&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=23c0b24cd8bea0d8a7dfccbbf2d75736&oe=616DAD75 "Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan")
