‘Disrupting the Art Museum Now!’: Responding to the NFT social experiment

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Period16 Mar 2021

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  • Title‘Disrupting the Art Museum Now!’: Responding to the NFT social experiment
    Media name/outletCultural Practices
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date16/03/21
    DescriptionThe last few days has seen a Twitter debate on the use of museum-based public domain digital images by a company called ‘Global Art Museum’ who used these images to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a type of token that can be used to create ownership over digital images. While it turned out to be a ‘social experiment’, Frances Liddell reflects on the use of these images by this company and considers the questions this experiment raises.
    URLhttps://culturalpractice.org/disrupting-the-art-museum-now-responding-to-the-nft-social-experiment/
    PersonsFrances Liddell
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