Showing all Thought posts by Charlotte Fang

Consiliensus. Virtual-social consensus standard of evidence relying on the convergence of multiple, independent sources. Personal consilience outmoded by deepfakery.

“Network spirituality” was originally coined by Remilia Collective artist FODCOM, and widely introduced with the title for our show “I Long for Network Spirituality”, and its meaning has been discussed and unpacked variously in the months since.

The default state of online existence is as an anonymous marketplace of ideas, a free market of memetic competition.

Everyone should have access to "unfettered and unmoderated" online communication, that is also surveillance resistant and illegible to the state.

Information wants to be free, culture follows evolutionary flows—viral memetics—and accreditation, provenance, patents, copyright are all burdens that strangle the free flow of the work and ruin its memetic fitness.

The problem of monetizing digital content is reproducible information is effectively infinite in supply, leaving it impossible to price, free like air.

For the art world, last wave of net art died as "post-internet art" in the mid-aughts & has laid dead, largely killed by an oppressive wave of woke politics on art, a censorious entryism inherently intolerant of the actual internet's anarchist heart. !

Remilia's art carries its own vision w/in it, roughly summarized: neo-orientalism, hypercitationalism, jovial irreverence. Neo-orientalism: we're very inspired by east asia's art scene & pop culture, specifically the subcultural niches developed in their own reverse orientialist western fetishism.

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On September 17th, Infernaltoast.eth quietly announced a new project, On Secondary [https://onsecondary.com/] - an open-source secondary marketplace for listing ArtBlocks projects at no-fee.

It's time to talk about NFT secondary royalties, a poorly thought out monetization model that's inadvertently become a standard in the NFT art world despite its misaligned incentives, lack of decentralized enforcement and ethical ambiguity.

A Hard Deed of Ownership, a Hard Ledger of Provenance, but an Incomplete Certificate of Authentication except in Embedded Digital Art.

Nouns is a DAO fund in the package of a generative NFT series. Nouns.wtf (Twitter) dropped this week with an auction that sold for 613 E (a little under $2 million at the time of sale).

Discussion on the Motivations driving Milady Maker's design.

What would it look like to design generative NFT's with profile pictures as a primary use-case?

What NFT's mean for Anti-authorship Praxis I’ve been thinking about what NFT means for anti-authorship praxis. NFT extends and formalizes authorship via the blockhain ledger, however NFT also undermines authorship, by flattening it onto ownership.