Please can you explain me more in terms of what NFT gonna ´´kill’’ art. Because from my understanding it make digital art kind of certified for the author/artist so no one can copy it.
I'm thinking more of art as a whole than necessarily individual artists, though I'm dubious of how helpful it is to them too. I understand the ideal. Pieces of art are among the most commonly exchanged 'non-fungible' goods out there. Artists get ripped off all of the time. NFT's, in an ideal world, revolutionize how art is bought and sold, giving artists a lot of power that they've never really had before.
In our world, the art in the NFT doesn't matter, as the main usage for them has quickly gone to buying, selling, and speculating as much as possible in the name of profit. It brings more people who are only interested in money to circle art movements looking for the new way to extract funds from them. The art wrapped up in NFTs then becomes something less for you and me to enjoy, or for an artist to simply express something, and more for people who live in a very different world from artists or people who genuinely appreciate art to dig into and extract as much profits as possible before another door closes for them. Those high, long-term ideals fly in the wind when there is money to be made. The quick cash always wins and the recourse never comes quickly enough, if it ever comes. I wonder how many small artists will never know how much money their art has made somebody else out there. For every artist that banks on this are several smaller ones getting eaten up by the same thing.
Like, I
want this to be a good thing. Same with crypto. I am a millennial who is fully of the web 2.0 boom. I was into that new school libertarianism bubbling up everywhere on the internet. I saw the internet as a realm of infinite possibility for people... like maybe we could take some things back from the powers that be, have something they couldn't touch, democratize art, entertainment, and sources for learning... even discourse itself! Globally maybe! It just isn't panning out that way and personally I feel like if I am not critical of things like this, I actually lose sight of what is good about the internet.
It's an argument from passion, mostly. But also not one completely divorced from reality, sadly. I don't want to be a downer about potentially good things. I just want that potential to not get usurped by greedy actors every single time. And unfortunately I also understand that the greed is systemic in large chunks of the global society of today. Some are cynical enough to chalk it up to human nature, but if that truly is the case, then it is our natural reaction to the surroundings we ourselves built, that many people now argue against changing, for whatever reason. So long as business is shaped how it is and economies are run how they are, it's always gonna be this same story. That NFTs have the potential to be more is almost irrelevant. Well... it's important to keep sights on that stuff if you are to grab any good opportunities, but I don't think it can be what well-meaning people want it to be. Not with the way things are run. There is no headway for altruistic moral notions when you're operating under a heavily profit-driven economy. It basically necessitates greed-incentivizing things and behaviors. Anything that CAN make money, will predominantly be used to make money. The whole idea of art is often at odds with this reality of necessitated marketability, and the fact that people don't see it is part of what allows art (and the artists who make it) to be exploited as a means for profit that does not benefit artists themselves. NFTs ultimately haven't broken artists out of that space in a meaningful way, and again, have become yet another thing to be exploited via profit motives. At best, it could maybe serve as a radiation suit for artists... but man, that landscape is still as irradiated as ever. And now the suits are getting messed with.
THAT was what I had in my head when I made that post. You may not agree with me, but that's where I stand on it as of now. I could always learn some things about the technology that shifts my outlook, or maybe things actually do come around. From where I'm at with it now, I can't say it looks great. And giving artists a potential way to secure their work does not even begin to make up for the exploitability that I see remaining within the technology as a whole.
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