I’m a writer and curator, who has also accidentally become an artist, from Berlin and Hamburg. STATUS UPDATE is a weekly newsletter about internet culture, art, and technology. The history of art is also a history of rejection. I’ve written this somewhere before.
👋 Hi, it’s me, @anika ! I’ve started writing a newsletter titled STATUS UPDATE. It is a weekly newsletter about internet culture, art, and technology.
I might disappoint you with what I’m going to share because it might not be what you’ve been thinking about. But you might also not want to spend time figuring out what is currently being discussed in the new online art world; therefore, this weekly status update provides you with the necessary knowledge to get through small talk at, for example, the next opening.
💭 There is a second wave of selfie feminism? Digital art needs a rebranding? A.I. isn’t going to make art? 95% of NFTs are considered dead?
🔥 The first newsletter is about rage and anticipation, about disappointment and expectations. And Kenny Schachter explains why NFTs must go…
Here’s an excerpt: Paul Feigelfeld, professor of Digital Cultures and Mediation at the University of Salzburg, does not believe that NFTs have a future. Since he had to think about this question in @spike_art_magazine 80, he couldn’t limit himself to a short answer: No. He sounds angry. At a Taylor Swift concert, everyone would now be shouting this bridge: ‚It remains telling that our civilization stuck a technology initially intended to increase egalitarianism and decentralization onto a shittier, more volatile version of money and mostly really bad art, by simply boiling down the question of art’s intrinsic value to how much it’s worth within a fictitious and easily riggable system.‘
❕ I might add opinion pieces, essays, and interviews at a later point. Until then, reading the newsletter is free.
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