Towards a Borderless Model: Making Digital Art Seen with Blockchain

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• How does blockchain technology impact art?
• What are NFTs and crypto art?
• How can blockchain networks transform the movement of art across national borders?

Episode 2 of the Signals Podcast features a very special conversation with blockchain.art (BCA) CEO and co-founder, Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt. BCA is “a blockchain-supported marketplace and e-commerce solution for galleries, museums, and artists.” In short, BCA mints, archives, and sells crypto-art or NFTs. After its founding in May 2019, digital art and NFTs exploded in popularity, creating and destroying immense wealth in a very short period of time, and introducing the world to a new technological art practice. Early blockchain networks such as Ethereum, and its energy intensive proof-of-work protocol also mobilized intense debates on the ethics of the medium. Steinbrecher-Pfandt points to Casey Reas, artist and creator of the programing language Processing, who says: “The blockchain is the key to moving away from licenses toward property for digital media…” 

The Signals conversation with Steinbrecher-Pfandt is far reaching in its discussion of the past three years of blockchain from a fine art perspective. Steinbrecher-Pfandt reflects a nuance and thoughtfulness to her particular context of the crypto art world. Listen to the podcast for a rich engagement on the relations of crypto art, digital infrastructure, national borders, and digital ownership.