*Live by the blockchain, suffer with the blockchain.  If you lie down with Dogecoins, you get up with their fleas.   https://www.engadget.com/thailand-bans-meme-coins-nft-113518980.html   Thailand is the latest country to impose curbs on cryptocurrency trading. The southeast Asian nation’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented a ban on meme coins like Dogecoin. Last week, exchanges […]

If there is anything left of metaverses after ten years, probably they’ll be preserved at Rhizome.   https://rhizome.org/about/   Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. Founded by artist Mark Tribe as a listserve including some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role […]

*Virtual  Reality is by no means a new idea.  Whenever it revives, it tends to use some new language to re-legimate itself.   *Any “metaverse” built today will age very much like this avant-garde hardware from the Ars Electronica Futurelab.  

*It’s hype and vaporware.  Virtual Reality has been promising  to “transform” this and that for forty years. *On the other hand, look at the fidelity of those images and the sophistication of that simulated physics.  This is not a mere visual toy for games and consumers.  

*This is NVIDIA’s idea of a good time doing some metaverse construction. *I’ve noticed that the process of building metaverses is generally more interesting that being in one.  Look at the complexity of those tools, and the vast kits of objects already created. *Fewer than 300 people have seen this video.   The users are […]

*It’s a “metaverse for engineers,” according to them. *This is a metaverse much like the others, but NVIDIA is a hardware company, so the strategy here is to maximize the purchase and use of expensive processing chips.  

One can trust e-flux to have plenty of interesting news on arcane topics of this sort. “UbuWeb.  All avant-garde, all the time!”   June 12, 2021 Château de Montsoreau Kenneth Goldsmith 1996 May 22–July 1, 2021 Château de Montsoreau—Museum of Contemporary Art Passage du Marquis de Geoffre 49730 Montsoreau France Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–7pm T +33 […]

https://tryshowtime.com/ Showtime, also known as tryshowtime, is yet another NFT display platform with yet another design scheme.  Showtime is not a 3D metaverse or a wunderkammer, but rather a set of flat, connected webpages where NFT collections from many different NFT auction platforms are arranged in clickable panes.   The scheme behind showtime is to […]

*Why shouldn’t the banker also be the gallerists, if it’s “blockchain art” anyway? *This gallery is still vaporware; it doesn’t exist.  It’s interesting to hear the cryptocoin traders describing why they want it to exist and why it would serve their commercial interests. https://featured.market/blog/introducing-featured-by-binance.html https://featured.market/blog/introducing-featured-by-binance.html Teck  CEO of Featured by Binance 10 June 2021 Introducing Featured by […]

*The entrepreneurs at oncyber.io have seen the difficulties with NFT display galleries.  They’ve tried to invent a simple technical solution.   *The user can pick among four standard “gallery spaces” that oncyber already designed. *Then the oncyber system reads the user’s “wallet” and picks out any NFT properties it can recognize. *The user is then […]