#Cryptoart and #NFT: Art for Money? Money for Art?

Intro to my very personal experiences (Series)

Dadaists always scrutinized the art market. They also questioned the art itself. They organized “International Dada Art Fairs” with axes attached to their works — providing the visitors a chance to destroy their artworks in case of their discontent.

Indeed, art markets, museums, art schools represented the established scene, following specific rules provided by authoritarian old men. It was a Western Civilization product, which pretended to be enlightened and advanced culture but allowed cruelties of WWI, poverty, colonialism crimes. First War was the eye-opener for artists who’d seen: they were still living in the Dark Middle Age.

100 years later — big changes?

The art (and art market) is scrutinized again — by new technologies, Artificial intelligence, postmodern mindset. We know, meanwhile, that the Dark Middle Age still lasts — we have to move throughout our contemporary history with an open-minded perspective.

Dadaists, Fluxus, Conceptualists have learned us: Everyone is an artist (like…