Hello Everyone!
I’ve finally decided to sign up to Steemit to share my digital art.
Esqueleto (2017)
Though I have experimented with more sophisticated software in the past in order to achieve more refined results, I have come to enjoy the output that good old MS Paint and its open source equivalent, Paintbrush, provide. Embracing their limited tool set has been instrumental in dictating the aesthetics of all of my work. The outright display of the raster image, as evidenced by the broken diagonals on most of my pieces, is nothing more than an acknowledgement to the digital nature of each piece. Correcting for it would seem disingenuous.
I strongly believe that each of my creations should own the attributes born out of both the basic software it was created in and the extent to how my abilities were able to harness the software’s limitations. I’ve certainly gotten better over time, as you'll see below.
All my work is on Instagram. Feel free to follow me there if you’d like, my handle is @jusanabart as it is here. However, now that I’ve discovered Steemit, it’s time to see were I can take my digital art publishing next. Besides displaying my work and writing about it, I’d like to experiment with the concept of provenance on digital creations by assigning limited editions to my past and future works and having a COA refer to a signature on the blockchain with the use of ascribe.io. Hopefully it will not only ascribe attribution but value as well, and perhaps have some of my limited edition art pieces become items that can be collected, traded and/or kept to accrue value over time. It’s on the pretentious side, I know, but the idea here is to play around with this newly found degree of freedom that both Steemit and ascribe.io have to offer and be able to run wild with it.
To not pursue experiments like this, however grandiose, is to miss the point of what the future holds. I’m not a blockchain expert, but it seems like the only way to really grasp its possibilities is to dive in and start using the services that are being built on top of it. Especially when they can do so much for what you are passionate about. So here goes nothing. To kick things off I will start by sharing the first piece of my collection from 10 years ago, Ciudad (2007) and my latest piece Body on Wall (2017). Under each piece you’ll find an ascribe.io attribution link. Subsequent blog posts will consists of me sharing one piece at a time with my thoughts on them. My hope is that you enjoy my work and that you accompany me on a journey of discovering what it means to produce digital art in decentralized ecosystems.
Ciudad (2007)
https://www.ascribe.io/app/editions/171Fx5fd4mjWq9vSvTSA59vcSV3Lh45ybZ
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Body on Wall (2017)
https://www.ascribe.io/app/pieces/33408
Hello! I like your work!
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Thanks Tim! I appreciate it.
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Sweet man, keep it up!
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Thanks @egregorian!
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Man, that is good for paint and paintbrush.. glad to have you here. Look forward to seeing more!
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Thanks man! I appreciate it. More to come soon!
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I'm really enjoying your art so far! Going to look at more today on my break. I've recently heard about musicians release music through blockchain technology. I'm still new to all this so still finding it hard to wrap my head around it, but how do you believe it could help visual artist?
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Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I have to say so myself, your stuff is pretty cool too man. I just started following ya. With regards to blockchain and the arts. I am exploring that too. For music there's https://ujomusic.com/ which looks like an interesting idea. For film rights management there's singulardtv.com. And then there's this ( https://campaign.braidthemovie.com/ ) movie that's trying to raise financing via a token sale. This are tools that help creators finance their projects and also give back to the community that help support their projects. Steemit seems to do something similiar for bloggers and social media users. Now as far as visual artists go, I'm exploring it as I go. I haven't found any SM specifically for artists built on top of a blockchain. Steemit is the closest thing to it.
From what I gather, one of the biggest challenges surrounding digital publishing for any kind of content is the ease with which the content can be replicated and shared indefinitely. It's just very easy to copy and paste content. I don't necessarily have a problem with that. That's just the way things are in the digital world. But the beauty of the blockchain is that it opens up the possibility of ascribing your content to an immutable ledger that can always be referenced for future attribution. Now the content is still digital and can still be copied and shared without your consent, but by ascribing it to the blockchain and generating a certificate of authenticity that references your work, you have established provenance for your work, and I think there is value in that. Then maybe there could be a market for collecting digital art where artists and collectors alike can easily track ownership of their art, allowing them to have a record of its journey, which I believe, in and of itself, carries value. This should open up the possibilities for people way smarter than me to come up with platforms where artist can showcase and track millions of copies of their digital work, that could then send micro payments to the original artist depending on how the art was used or consumed. All done automatically. Anyway, I don't want to bore you. This topic could be an interesting blog post, I have to think about it a little more. Cheers dude, and thanks for commenting.
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