A UK artist has announced that he has sold a collection of 19 paints for a total of 490 Bitcoin. The price fetched for the collection at the time of writing is just less than $4.9 million. Lincoln Townley, the creator of the collection, has a history of selling his artworks for Bitcoin. In fact,…
A special collaboration between a group of artists on a 2017 digital original re-worked to an ass-kicking motion shape! Tuesday 10th, at 9 PM CET the motion version of my 2017 art piece “T(r)opical” will hit the Bitcoin Live show with Jan & Nicholaas Dalmulder. The digital still original has been reworked, with the help…
Listen up, degens Summer’s out, and it is time to gear up for another season of Web3 and NFTs. Team VESA has enjoyed the refreshing (too much so at times) weather of our native Finland and some interesting connections and projects have immediately sprouted. Currently, VESA is in Switzerland for a top Web3 conference with…
Ai-Da, the humanoid artist, recently unveiled her portrait of Alan Turing, the man who cracked the Enigma code, laid the groundwork for artificial intelligence, and was vilified for his identity in a less tolerant era. When a humanoid robot paints the portrait of a computer science titan, it feels like the ouroboros of technology—AI paying…
Aliyyah Koloc, a professional racing driver and advocate for autism awareness, shares her unique journey from tennis to motorsports, her passion for art, and her involvement with Raphael Coin. She discusses the challenges and rewards of racing, the importance of tokenization in making art accessible, and her insights on the future of crypto for her…
Ai-Da, the humanoid artist, recently unveiled her portrait of Alan Turing, the man who cracked the Enigma code, laid the groundwork for artificial intelligence, and was vilified for his identity in a less tolerant era. When a humanoid robot paints the portrait of a computer science titan, it feels like the ouroboros of technology—AI paying…
This is Human Generated This is an interpretation of VESA’s appearance on the Human Generated podcast by Omid Honari. The two met during a day of keynote speeches at the Mohammed Bin Rashid library, where as it turns out, both of their topics touched on not only art and its implications, but also spirituality.It…
To honour its 10th birthday, a group of artists from around the world are putting on an art exhibition exploring the cultural impact of Bitcoin. The “Art (r)Evolution” event will take place during the last week of September and first week of October in Paris, France. Art (r)Evolution Exhibition to Explore Crypto Use Cases The…
You can now go to a museum in Japan to experience moving digital art. You can also go to a digital platform like Somnium Space, or Superworld, to experience further digital rabbit holes. Something has been cooking in Helsinki, Finland for a while now though, and we are finally ready to show the world the…
Web3 Liberation from Postmodernism’s Stranglehold: The Art Renaissance By VESA Postmodernism isn’t just an art issue—it’s everywhere. This single, pervasive philosophy has seeped into big tech, corporations, legislation, media, and nearly every major institution, often strangling genuine creativity, diversity of thought, and depth. For comparison, there are around 200 other philosophies, 4,300 religions, the male…