Regardless of enduringly dismal situations within the NFT market, some art-focused tasks leveraging blockchain expertise have managed to remain regular—and even, in a couple of instances, develop—over the past yr and a half. A kind of few outliers is Artwork Blocks, the digital artwork platform and gallery that makes use of NFTs to mint and distribute generative artwork works to collectors around the globe.
After launching its personal NFT market in March—a transfer supposed to guard the more and more threatened observe of implementing creator royalties, a price between 2.5% and 10% despatched again to an NFT’s creator in secondary market gross sales—Artwork Blocks has expanded its slate of curated, generative digital artwork tasks to incorporate stay, globe-spanning in-person minting occasions and digital artwork tasks that includes bodily parts.
In late September, Artwork Blocks hosted its third annual in-person gathering—the Marfa Weekend—in Marfa, Texas, dwelling of the collective’s sole bodily gallery. Lots of of Artwork Blocks collectors, artists, and group members flocked to the tiny desert city for a weekend spent discussing the way forward for generative artwork, showcasing cutting-edge tasks, and celebrating the group’s outstanding resilience.
There, Artwork Blocks founder and CEO Erick Calderon (aka Snowfro) sat down with Sander Lutz, lead tradition reporter at Decrypt‘s SCENE, to debate the corporate’s work and Calderon’s perspective on its current accomplishments.
