'The Most Expensive GIF of All Time' is Being Sold for $5,800
I found this article really interesting particularly when the author writes about art moving from one medium to the next. Garber explains how the next realm is digital, and physical art and things are dying. I may not know what I’m talking about in the large scale of things and if museums are actually losing revenue and visitors, but I personally love museums… at least some. We need experiences and to feel the presence of a work of art, a gif is just not going to deliver that to people. I think we can update what goes in museums to work with what is “trendy” or how we experience it. That was one aspect of the article that I felt provoked almost.
Furthermore, I think that this new age of selling digital art is 1. Amazing that we can make money off of digital art because it opens up the floor for graphic designers to enter a whole new realm of work. And 2. Kind of hilarious that NFTs, some random thing someone makes digitally, can sell for so much money and have such value. I guess I also don’t quite understand how they work and what “owning” them entails. And why someone would pay so much money to own this. It doesn’t make very much sense to me, but hey. I’m not mad at that, especially if I could possibly cash in on this concept as a digital artist. This makes me wonder what the future holds in terms of currency, art platforms, and what museums could look like in 30 years.
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