Posts tagged digital art
“Digital is today’s tool that enables the greatest opportunity for free expression”
“Digital is today’s tool that enables the greatest opportunity for free expression”

An interview with Marc Billings, founder and CEO of Blackdove

Q: How did Black Dove start?

A: In 2002 while visiting Art Basel I fell in love with the moving image artwork from Giles Hendrix. Raw, using the technologies of our time and unapologetically digital, the work symbolised the new generation of artists that would come after him. My co-founder Marisa and I were collecting and engaging in this new medium and built Blackdove for our own use. Only over time as the medium began to grow, did our friends and family begin to ask for our software for their own homes and offices and eventually the company was born. It has been a journey of love and support for all involved.

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MediumAnna SeamanArt, digital art, crypto, galleryComment
“Shifting perspective is really powerful, in art and in life.”
“Shifting perspective is really powerful, in art and in life.”

Whilst most artists connect with a need for creativity at a young age, Raphael says he was brought up as a child to be fluent in the language of art. “I quite literally grew up inside a piece of art,” he said. “My mother was a painter and when she would run out of canvas she would just turn to the walls, gluing on shards of mirror and painting around them. She was an abstract expressionist and my father was a musician fluent in Middle Eastern woodwinds. We lived in a very rural area in Northern California, surrounded by woods. We had no electricity, no TV; it was just art.”

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MediumAnna Seamandigital art, NFT, cryptoComment
Enter the Digital Era, How NFTs are Impacting Art, Creativity and Beyond
Enter the Digital Era, How NFTs are Impacting Art, Creativity and Beyond

In 2021, Collins Dictionary announced that NFT was word of the year, which was a rather curious situation for a word that isn’t even a word. NFT is an acronym that stands for non-fungible token. Collins defines it as “a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a collectible.” The rise of NFTs in popular discourse over the course of the past 12 months has been meteoric and frankly unprecedented especially given that the vast percentage of people had never heard of one before March 2021. This month two things happened to catapult them into the headlines. First was Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey selling the first ever tweet as an NFT for USD 2.9 million and the second was the sale of an artwork by a previously unknown artist called Beeple whose digital collage sold at Christie’s for USD 69 million. Of course, this was not the birth of NFTs. Actually, the first ever piece of art minted [this is the term for making an NFT] on a blockchain was in 2014 but March 2021 will go down in history as a watershed moment.

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FeaturesAnna SeamanNFTs, Metaverse, art, digital art, Technology