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A sale of AI art at famed auction house Christie’s could change how we think about creativity – if it’s not cancelled first.
This is why no one is buying your cartoon ape.
Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
Despite a recent crash in value, universities are using cryptocurrencies for a variety of purposes and reasons.
Who makes money from the metaverse, and how, comes down to what it becomes. And shaping the metaverse is, to a large degree, a matter of definitions.
NFT sales passed US$40 billion in 2021 and now more brands want to get in on the action.
The metaverse is being hyped as a game-changing virtual platform that will transform our digital lives. But it has some inherent challenges to overcome in order to achieve mass adoption.
Many people promoting cryptocurrencies are looking for something bigger than the future of financial transactions. They’re aiming to break free of governments and corporations.
The digital collectors items have become a multi-billion dollar industry in a matter of months.
Whether the cryptocurrency hype makes you crypto curious or crypto skeptical, there are many ways your life could be affected by crypto’s underlying technology, blockchain.
For the metaverse to work, people need to own their virtual bodies and possessions and be able to spend money. The same cryptographic technology behind bitcoin will make that possible.
The craze among celebrities for Bored Ape NFTs suggests speculation has become completely detached from any idea of fundamental value.
Like cryptocurrency, Damien Hirst ‘Currency’ artworks have many of the attributes of actual money.
There’s a difference between owning property and owning the copyright in that property.
NFTs are revolutionising the sports memorabilia market. There are huge opportunities to make money, but also big risks.
Until the late 1800s, moments of widespread high-risk financial gambling weren’t considered manias but the results of individual actors, who bore responsibility for the disastrous results.
Where some see a bubble waiting to burst, others see a reinvention of the way we handle ownership of assets.
When we see the high prices some are paying for NFT art, we must assume more performances, and potentially, acts of protest, could circulate as NFTs.
NFTs don’t even exist in the real world, but the market around them has a big effect on the planet.
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Research Professor of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University
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Professeure, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
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Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities, University of Canberra
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Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, and Co-Director, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Cornell University
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Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law; Director Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Managament (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University
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Instructor in communication studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Carleton University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics / Director of the Institute of European Finance, Bangor University
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Deputy Department Chair, Sport and Management Researcher, Lecturer, Business School, Swinburne University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Economics and Business, Lehman College, CUNY
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction, University at Buffalo
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Associate Director, Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3); Assistant Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh