Monegraph and the Status of the Art Object

A conversation between Steven Sacks, Kevin McCoy, Zoë Salditch, Adriana Ramić, Saul Ostrow, and Mike Pepi On Monday February 10, 2015, just as The Data Issue launched, Morgan Sutherland gathered six artists, writers, and entrepreneurs positioned at

A conversation between Steven Sacks, Kevin McCoy, Zoë Salditch, Adriana Ramić, Saul Ostrow, and Mike Pepi

On Monday February 10, 2015, just as The Data Issue launched, Morgan Sutherland gathered six artists, writers, and entrepreneurs positioned at the intersection of the art market and the tech industry to discuss the potential of Monegraph, the fledgling platform that emerged from Rhizome’s Seven on Seven in 2014. The brainchild of Anil Dash and Kevin McCoy, it promises to harness the distributed potential of the blockchain (the technology behind Bitcoin) in service of digital artists. Organized around questions of the role of new platforms and their impact on the circulation of the art object, the spirited discussion ran for several hours, tackling the nature of the digital art object, its market, and its status as a locus of cultural inquiry.

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