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Of digital kiss fragments and bored monkeys: Conference on NFTs
What is behind it all when the entry ("token") linked to a digital work of art in a blockchain is auctioned off at Christie's for 69 million US dollars? Do collectors who buy the reference to one of 10,000 parts of a high-resolution image of the famous Klimt painting "The Kiss" from the Belvedere in Vienna for 1,850 euros actually receive something of value? Are superstars such as Madonna, Eminem, Justin Bieber, Paris Hilton, Neymar, Stephen Curry, Jimmy Fallon and Post Malone well advised to gain access to the infamous "Bored Ape Yacht Club" (BAYC) by purchasing a monkey token?
Reports and discussions on the subject of "NFTs" (non-fungible tokens) are often characterized by frightening ignorance or driven by callous to fraudulent profiteering. The Blockchain-Center.eu at the University of Kassel is taking this circumstance as an opportunity to hold an international scientific conference on the phenomenon of "NFTs and art" on July 22 and 23, 2022, and thus in the first phase of documenta fifteen, together with the Kunsthochschule Kassel, the documenta Institute and the documenta Archive. It will provide greater clarity in the interdisciplinary discourse between artists, art historians, art philosophers, economists, computer scientists and lawyers and will also stimulate public debate.
The high-caliber speakers will come to Kassel from the University of California, Los Angeles, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Furtherfield Gallery, London, the Economic Space Agency, Helsinki, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard University, the University of Bologna and the IT University of Copenhagen, among others. In lectures and panel discussions, the technical and legal foundations of NFTs in art will be discussed, as will the value of artworks linked to NFTs. The role of NFTs in and for museums and the sustainability of NFTs are also topics of the conference.
Program: https://blockchain-center.eu/veranstaltung/nft_2207/
Website:https://blockchain-center.eu/
Note to members of the press:
Media representatives have the option of press accreditation with the opportunity for interviews and background discussions. The conference organizers are also available for interviews in advance.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Walter Blocher
University of Kassel
Phone: 0561 804-2186
E-mail: blocher[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Prof. Dr. Georg von Wangenheim
University of Kassel
Tel.: 0561 804-1946
E-Mail: g[dot]wangenheim[at]uni-kassel[dot]de