Commentary
Where did NFTs Come From?
Revisiting the earliest blockchain art projects helps explain the connection between contemporaneous developments in finance, aesthetics, and technology.
Commentary
Twitter’s metaverse play
by Jeffrey Alan ScudderJeffrey Alan Scudder makes art under the alias Digitpain, and as one-third of the collective Whistlegraph. In the premiere of “Bear Market Diaries,” a video series for Outland that explores various web3 phenomena, Scudder discusses the social hierarchies being established by Twitter features such as Spaces and Blue, and how they could become the infrastructure of the metaverse.
