Arte y economía blockchain. Valor, financiarización y precariedad en la cultura digital

  1. Luis D. Rivero Moreno
Journal:
Accesos: prácticas artísticas y formas de conocimiento contemporáneas

ISSN: 2530-447X,  2530-4488

Year of publication: 2023

Issue: 6

Pages: 58-69

Type: Article

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Abstract

In the environment of a new post-fordist economy, cultural capitalism has found in the irruption of blockchain culture and the so-called cryptoart an im¬portant ally. The forerunners of this new artistic aspect pose the arrival of NFTs as a disruptive element, capable of solving the problems that digital art has had up to the present day. Meanwhile, critics claim that, in the blockchain environ¬ment, art would be little more than a mere feeding mechanism for the specu¬lative game of the post-capitalist financial economy. This text tries to address some of the springs that allow us to glimpse the causes of the strong irruption of the so-called crypto-art in the traditional art system and the art market. Ac¬cordingly, questions about the usefulness and value of art in digital culture, the role of art within the blockchain economy or the role of the art worker and his or her conditions in the new environment of production, distribution and sale of art will be addressed.

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