Quantum leap: how a decade of NFTs has changed digital art

Image caption: “This idea has refused to die”: Kevin McCoy, Quantum (2014), the first non-fungible token (NFT), a 179-frame screen recorded loop from a code-generated animation. From Robert Alice (editor), On NFTs (Taschen, 2024). Image courtesy: Kevin McCoy. Article by Chris Michaels.  The Art Newspaper – April 1, 2024.

Two books take a look at the past and future of the non-fungible token. Once seen as the creature of market hype, the NFT now promises the first shared technical standard for the digital art world.

The 10-year anniversary of a once-controversial new form of digital art, and disruptor of the art market, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), falls on 2 May. In the lead-up to that anniversary, two important new publications combine to provide […]

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