“As Sotheby’s auction house remarks: ‘Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale’ is NOW open for bidding! And tomorrow the multi-venue global exhibition in partnership with Samsung and SamsungUS will open in our galleries in NYC, London, Hong Kong and across the metaverse.”   *I recommend a look at these artworks, not because you ought to hasten to […]

It’s been a rough time for art galleries, since sharing infected air with one’s fellow art enthusiasts can be fatal.   However, this situation has been a major boost to virtual 3D environments.  Although online “metaverses” by no means new, they crash less nowadays, they’re better-designed and more entertaining, and  they have some profitable business […]

  *NFTs are an industry, and A16Z, which is Marc Andreesen’s venture capital outfit in Silicon Valley, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this space.   *There are people who claim that blockchains aren’t an industry, and that non-fungible tokens must therefore be even less of an industry.  The response from blockchainers would […]

Nome Gallery, based in Berlin, is one of Share Festival’s favorite galleries, since it’s run by a former Share staffer and has a lot of our favorite artists in it. We’ll be doing a lot of event announcements in the blog, especially for gallerists and events, who have really suffered.  They’re of specialized interest, so […]

*Who wants to know about ten years of dry history of crypto art?  “Show me the Lamborghinis!!”   *Because blockchains and cryptocoins are involved, everybody in the NFT space talks like that.  There’s quite a lot going on.  There are various NFT platforms with radically different payment methods and various business models.  Some are big […]

  Here’s a worthy effort at blockchain art history compiled by our esteemed colleagues at “Furtherfield.”  It’s way too early for any definitive history, but they’re putting in some noble effort here, so we should profit by it.   https://decal.furtherfield.org/2020/05/22/a-blockchain-art-history-timeline/   Most artworld engagements with blockchain technologies have focused on the business of art. Artworld […]

  The Non-Fungible Token scene caught fire in 2021, but for a full ten years before that, technology artists were extensively experimenting with blockchains and other forms of cryptography.   Here at Share Festival it’s been our experience that the pioneers rarely get their due; it’s quite common for innovations to bubble along in the […]

*Lia is  yet another of our former Share Festival judges, and this is our first Artmaker blogposts which has topical news.   *We plan to place a lot of news on this blog because, after the coma of the epidemic,  there’s a lot going on among our favorite tech-art contingents; a kind of crescendo, even. […]

  *We didn’t make this  aerial video, but Torino abounds in drones and, as a center of the Italian aerospace industry, Torino is particularly drone-friendly.  There’s also quite a lot of technical manufacturing and artisanal electronics in Torino.   *Torino looks somewhat calm and subdued in this video — because there was a pandemic going […]

*This is another of our Share Festival art jurors, Max Casacci.  As you can see, he’s laying down a techno track inside a Turinese palace.   *Here in Torino, we have an abundance of techno music and techno festivals,  and just a plethora of palaces.  This unique combo of the digital and the baroque is […]