How a police officer conquered the German art scene – Part II

We already reported about miNo yesterday. The artist from the Ruhr area has been a shooting star in the German tape art scene for two years. MiNo is now venturing into the digital world.

You can find part one of our feature here.

The hype about digital works of art is also finding its way into Germany. One of the drivers of the new Hypetrain is miNo. The as Tape Art– Officials known as artists now also want to take the step into crypto art and rely entirely on NFT.

“I entered the NFT market through the digital artist Beeple. I was immediately interested in the topic, I think digital art is the future, ”said Nolte in an interview with BTC-ECHO, referring to the record auction of“ Everydays: The First 5000 Days ”, an NFT image by the US artist Beeple , which changed hands for a whopping $ 69 million.

But the NFT thing is tricky. Tokenized works of art like .jpgs are springing up like mushrooms these days: Scooter, Beeple and even the Kings of Leon are now making cryptographically secured art. The NFT principle is quickly explained. Basically, it is about the digital securitization of property rights, mostly on the Ethereum blockchain. Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are unique crypto tokens which – in contrast to utility tokens, for example – cannot be increased as often as required. The buyer pays for the digital work of art with fiat or cryptocurrency and then receives the hash of the image, which he can save on his own wallet. This means that the ownership of the image – just like the private key – can be clearly assigned.

However, critics rightly warn that digital art can never be scarce. While originals like a Van Gogh are verifiably scarce, digital works of art can be reproduced without any problems. Even more: a copy of an oil painting can never be as valuable as the original, since characteristics such as the brushstroke and the age of the painting cannot be copied. In contrast to physical works, the copy and the original of digital works of art cannot be distinguished; they are one-to-one the same. It remains to be seen whether the attempt by the NFT movement to counteract the associated difficulties of property allocation.

miNo: “I still make art you can touch”

Nolte therefore does not want to switch entirely to digital space. Rather, the NFT should rather serve as an addition to the physical work of art.

“I would like to design part of the Berlin Wall and I will accompany this creative process on film. But we are currently still in a bridging phase. […] I still make art you can touch, ”says the artist in the interview, adding that there is no point in working completely digitally, as viewers still value physical elements.

The film rights to the resulting videos are then auctioned off to the highest bidder as an NFT. At the end of the day, a high-resolution NFT scan of the section of the Berlin Wall will also be auctioned off by auction houses.

However, miNo does not believe in the complete suppression of “real” manual work by the computer.

People are always fascinated by the works of a true artist with his brushstrokes and small mistakes. Art is made by people and for people. That is the core and the human soul in art. “

miNo

The step into unknown NFT realms is brave. We are curious to see if it succeeds.