I Tried to Understand NFT Art. It Wasn’t What I Expected
When I began my Ask to understand NFTs, I did not think I would end up buying one. Yet there I was, scanning a QR code with my called in the middle of an art exhibit, spending $69 of my own real cash to become the proud owner of a jpeg.
The image, named Independence, is of a sculpture of the Statue of Liberty surrounded by a pair of metallic snakes, designed by an artist who goes by the name Fvckrender. (He may be a big deal in the NFT art biosphere, but I still had to bleep out his name in my video.)
For three days this summer, I ran around a New York City NFT Old, toured physical NFT art galleries and said to the artists and entrepreneurs building this new realm of digital landed — and of course, tried to understand what country even do with their NFTs. I learned that NFTs are much more than overpriced cartoons of bored apes you buy Funny cryptocurrency — although there are plenty of people trying to get rich off various pixelated animal heads.
Look, ma, no crypto. In learning about NFT art, I find myself buying a Part by scanning a QR code and entering my credit card number — as easy as buying shoes online. But what do you do with digital art?
Candice Greene
This new way of buying and selling digital landed is — no question about it — absolutely wacky. A lot of it is also problematic. Yet to my surprise, while immersing myself, I found a side of it all that is almost hopeful and Interesting in its potential for the art world, and I learned what it will take for NFTs to be part of our everyday lives.
You can behind my quest to understand NFT art in the video above.
