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Of digital kiss fragments and bored monkeys: Conference on NFTs
Image: Rosa Menkman.What is behind it 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 photograph of the famous Klimt painting "The Kiss" for 1,850 euros at the Vienna Belvedere actually receive something of value? Are superstars like 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?
Reporting and discussion contributions on the topic of "NFTs" (Non-fungible Tokens) are not infrequently characterized by frightening cluelessness or else 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-Institut and the documenta-Archiv. It will provide more clarity in the interdisciplinary discourse of artists, art scholars, art philosophers, economists, computer scientists and lawyers and will also give impetus to the public discussion.
The top-class 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. Lectures and panel discussions will address the technical and legal underpinnings of NFTs in art as well as the value of artworks linked to NFTs. The role of NFTs in and for museums as well as 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 possibility of press accreditation with the opportunity for interviews and background discussions. Conference organizers are also available for interviews in advance.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Walter Blocher
Universtät Kassel
Tel.: 0561 804-2186
E-mail: blocher[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Prof. Dr. Georg von Wangenheim
Universität Kassel
Tel.: 0561 804-1946
E-Mail: g[dot]wangenheim[at]uni-kassel[dot]de