Weekly Recap Report - September 2, 2023

📰 This Week on Creative Bytes

• Empathy in the Age of Web3

• Network Effects for Artists

• Art in the Age of Commercialism

• Low Effort Art and the Fallacy of Sunk costs

• Crypto Art Friday #4 - Anarchy
  

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🖼️ Crypto Art Friday Winners

Last week we had 51 submissions for Crypto Art Friday’s “Memories” theme.

For this showcase I curated 12 pieces from 12 different artists: Nessie, Tony Wallstrom, Danitta Push, Mr. Zam, Speaker Jill, Gassan Aqel, Madness of Colors, Kismat Deora, hasdirto, Ayaz Yildiz, EMƎ and lastcrow.

Please give each of them a follow on X!

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🍎 This Week’s Quick Bytes

• Bitboy Crypto being fired from Bitboy Crypto in a coup was not on my crypto influencer bingo card this year.

• If you’ve been enjoying collecting art on zeroone.art, then you might also enjoy founders, Colborn Bell and Ludovica Rosi talking about memetics, monoculture, and the power of crypto art at the Avalanche Summit.

• The Daily AI asked Midjourney to create superheroes in 1880 with some surprisingly enjoyable results. Some of my favorite are Deadpool, Wonder Woman, and the Hulk.

• Patrick Amadon continues to lead the way with his monthly decentralized, chain, and platform agnostic art exhibition hosted on JOYN. This month him and and 15 other artists will purchase 1 ETH submitted art each. Here’s the details!

• Mondoir’s Directory.art just passed 1000 members of which I am one. This tool is not backed by VC or investor money. Their goal is to give artists more exposure and sign partnerships which can benefit everyone.

• Midjourney’s inpainting was released this week. And Allen T released an in depth thread that dives into 10 discoveries that you might find intersting.

• Grayscale won a court appeal against the SEC's denial to convert its Bitcoin Trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF, marking a significant milestone for the cryptocurrency industry. The court ruled that the SEC's denial was "arbitrary and capricious," and the decision led to a surge in Bitcoin's price.

• Check out SkaldaAI's inaugural exhibition. As AI accelerates our thought of the future, it also asks us to reexamine the past, compelling us to think about the intricate ways in which our relationship with memory and history are reshaped by technological progress.

• There are several burn-to-redeem opportunities available for holders of MOCA’s recent fundraiser. This thread has links to all of them!
  

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