{"id":586,"date":"2022-08-24T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:40:07","slug":"blockchain-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/blockchain-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain Aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reverse-Engineering_-New-Paradigm-Shifts-in-Art-Curatorial-and-Technological-Practices-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reverse-Engineering_-New-Paradigm-Shifts-in-Art-Curatorial-and-Technological-Practices-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reverse-Engineering_-New-Paradigm-Shifts-in-Art-Curatorial-and-Technological-Practices-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reverse-Engineering_-New-Paradigm-Shifts-in-Art-Curatorial-and-Technological-Practices-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reverse-Engineering_-New-Paradigm-Shifts-in-Art-Curatorial-and-Technological-Practices-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Reverse-Engineering_-New-Paradigm-Shifts-in-Art-Curatorial-and-Technological-Practices-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Eppley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 1-pt course examines the evolving paradigm of \u201cBlockchain Aesthetics\u201d using an interdisciplinary Art History and Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. Students will learn and discuss the dominant methods, concepts, and strategies of applied blockchain technology in contemporary digital art, and together attempt to analyze and theorize the potential affordances and harms of this new artistic medium as it intervenes in established visual art institutions and communities (e.g., from museums and galleries to auction houses, social media and the decentralized web). The class will also look backwards in history to situate \u201cBlockchain Aesthetics,\u201d and the wide artistic realm of \u201cCrypto Art,\u201d in a broad cultural and technological history beyond NFTs, highlighting how ideas around cryptography, contracts, reproducibility, decentralization, scarcity and financialization developed in modern and contemporary art. Approaching the blockchain as a novel artistic tool and a technology of power, this course considers recent aesthetic evaluations of Crypto Art against its sociopolitical, infrastructural, and ecological impact, centering its contested potential for\u2014and negation of\u2014equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1-pt course examines the evolving paradigm of \u201cBlockchain Aesthetics\u201d using an interdisciplinary Art History and Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. 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