“freeing people is the goal of art, so art, for me, is the science of freedom” — J. Beuys. Introduction: All art is meant to create an effect. No matter what it is, art has an affection involved. In this sense, artistic action and culture itself have a fundamental relationship, which…

Intro: In the last text (Chapter 5), we talked about how contemporary art has a parameter of what is “artistic” based on itself. The loss of meaning comes with the dissolution of an univocal sense of what is aesthetic beauty in art. This was aggravated in the 18th-19th centuries due to…

Introduction: The notion of art has been in crisis for a long time. It is common to hear empty definitions of what art is, and this is because we no longer believe that art should be tied to a fixed and predetermined meaning. You can understand this in phrases like “art…

Something is rotten in the NFTs state: What drives an NFT project? What reasons lead a group of people to come together and produce an NFT project? And why are so many people buying NFTs? Obviously, there are multiple possible answers to each of these questions. From a romantic, idealistic…

As we saw in Chapter 2, if you own an NFT, there is a great chance that you are being deceived, and one of the ways this occurs is through the centralization, outsourced or not, of the metadata of the arts you own, allowing the permanent loss of your NFTs…

If you own a NFT, you are probably being scammed in some way. And this is not an inherent problem with NFTs. This issue is linked to the current smart contract structure of most NFT projects, especially the profile pic collections (PFPs). You’ve probably been scammed through one of these two ways: lack of decentralization and transparency (this Chapter) or uncertain randomness (Chapter…

(Or why NFTs aren’t just a bubble) NFT was picked as the word of the year by the Collins dictionary in 2021. …