Hello, everyone! We are glad to meet here: ICKI , an NFT Artist & Collector, he is invited to discuss crypto and his exciting NFT journey, anything you need to know about the becoming of a crypto artist in the NFT era.
Welcome ICKI, thank you for taking your time today!
Icki Art: Hi everyone.
Bytom: Could you introduce yourself to our community?
Icki Art: Well my name is Icki — I came from a background of 20+ years as a commercial creative. I started my journey working for island records as an audio visual guy. Working with Amy Winehouse on the Frank and back to black albums. Now, I invest most of my time in NFT ART.
Bytom: When did you know NFT, and devote yourself to crypto art creation？
Icki Art: This is a great question. I had a number of friends who were already engaged in the space. Peers in the industry with the likes of Beeple etc. So I was pulled in by the idea of this new digital renaissance. After spending so many years creating for clients this was an opportunity to have a personal form of expression. I first heard about NFT couple years ago but didn’t really get involved up until about 12 months ago.
Bytom: Some of us have heard of NFT but the word look big. Could you help us to break it down so we can understand it
I have a lot of questions on this topic, but today I will try to contain my curiosity and confine myself to two questions.
Here are my questions:
1) NFT has started its transformation into an art world, but NFT has much deeper potential and I’m sure it will soon influence many markets! Do you share this opinion? You can give your prediction about the niches that will soon experience the innovations that NFT will bring.
2) I’m curious to know how you feel about the work of artists working in virtual reality. Their work can be fully seen only in special equipment (helmet / goggles).
Icki Art: Sure, NFT is so crypto right? 🤣 I wish we never named it this. Non fungible token! It’s so technical. In reality it’s just the ability to mint something in the chain and give it provenance and authenticity around ownership. It allows for transparency of these themes. In a world where copyright infringement and fraud has been such a significant part of art this was an innovative moment. Consider this. A photographer takes photos of a conflict ‘war’ history has shown that these photos can be manipulated and over time we loose the integrity of them and the facts of history. With the blockchain and NFTs this would be impossible.
With regards to other utility for NFTs the sky is the limit. One can think of say authenticating business distribution. Let’s say I am a coffee company and I say that my coffee is sustainably sourced. I could prove that using the chain to record its distribution. Honestly the potential is kind blowing.
Bytom: What type of work do you create the most?
Icki Art: Well I’m a 3D artist. My work is where conceptualism meets minimalism in the classical sense. So I suppose it’s the birth of a new ism. Post digital minimalism. I have a background creating large format digital experiences for music shows etc. So am also into holographic live experiences. My first release included a hypervsn holographic ready output.
With regards to the earlier question of my thoughts on VR. The Metaverse has created lots of VR opportunity but honestly there is not enough NFT platform bandwidth and file intervention to really take advantage of full VR. It will be exciting if someone can crack that challenge.
Bytom: Icki Do you think NFTs are the future of art and collectibles? If yes, why do you think so?
Icki Art: With regards to the earlier question of my thoughts on VR. The Metaverse has created lots of VR opportunity but honestly there i
It seems to me that there is no database of proven NTF artists on the Internet. It would be good to avoid copycats and outright scammers. On such a resource, one could find out about all the works that the artist released on various nft platforms. Perhaps there is such a service, but I just don’t know about its existence? Tell ICKI what you think about it.
Icki Art: With regards to other utility for NFTs the sky is the limit. One can think of say authenticating business distribution. Yes, I also think that NTF has great potential. Thanks for your answer.
I like that you split the terms collectibles and Art. These are really two very different lanes within NFT. Collectibles are like ALT coins. They are pretty looking speculative bets that use art to govern them. 1/1 Art is more a long term bet. My collectors like Bharat Krymo definitely have the perspective that as non-crypto natives enter the space it is the 1/1 art market that will maintain value and not the short term bubble of collectibles. There are exceptions to this. Those collectible blue chips that carry history. Crypto punks/Apes to name a couple.
Bytom: Icki how does sleep minting occur? How will one ensure that a physical asset and the associated NFT stay connected?
Icki Art: There is no database but anyone engaged in the community can check highest selling artists. There are databases of that. Check cryptoArt.IO
Sleep minting is just another form of impersonation attack
Bytom: That’s amazing! We want to know more about your works. Could you show some of your works or any channel can be accessible to?
Icki Art: It’s like most scams. Authenticity and verified accounts should always be primary as a collector
Generally those that offer a physical delivery as part of an NFT only offer this to a primary buyer. The secondary market is not obligated to transfer physical asset with secondary purchase.
Sure, you can see. Couple of the pieces from my latest series called ‘plagiarism’ on foundation.app/@icki
Bytom: I want to know your opinion on this matter.
Where is the inspiration of these works from?
Icki Art: Within the NFT domain there is this idea of a Genesis. The first piece minted. I think this is ridiculous. I wanted to create a foundation genesis series that refused to accept that notion. I did that by exploring plagiarism. How could this be a genesis of it was plagiarising? So I chose an artist I like very much PAK and in particular a piece by him labelled the Metabond. The first on the series aims to use the metabond as a reference of the line between interpretation and plagiarism. The second in the series took the work ‘the comedian’ by Cattelan. A banana taped to a wall. And explored the idea of community based plagiarism. Collectibles often plagiarise but community has the ability to act as a judge jury and executioner. You see this isn’t ‘real art’ it is ‘Meta art’. I explain the series a little here. https://twitter.com/the_kid_icarus/status/1440058768755101708?s=21
I want to begin to share my works full meaning. The tweet below expresses the primary conceptual driver for why plagiarism had to be the theme of the… I would love to see NFT within classic art education.
Bytom: Do you think art universities should introduce a few NTF lectures into their curriculum?
I completely share your opinion! I have a desire to prepare and speak to students. Communication with you inspired me to take this step even more.
Well most of my plans are long term. They include a residency interview show on NFT culture and bridging the gap between non-crypto natives and natives. I will be finishing my series on Foundation and then looking to mint on some new platforms. I have access to a number of the curated platforms and so would like to explore that. I’m always looking to expand my network and grow my platform and be a voice for the community and so I will continue to do that. I would also like to further expand some philanthropic ventures. I raised about 20k dollars for canst research through an NFT project on portion.io named cause and cure. I like the idea of using NFT for good.
Well most of my plans are long term. They include a residency interview show on NFT culture and bridging the gap between non-cry
