During her years in the art business, Courtney has encountered many works with fascinating stories behind them, often enriched by well-documented provenance. Provenance can sound daunting and somewhat archaic. The trick to assembling a strong provenance is the documentation of factual and reputable sources associated with the item. But how do we bring the recordkeeping of art into the 21st century? Formats for digital files Jpeg or Png visual Pdf visual or text Doc or Docx mainly text Excel spreadsheet Webm or Mpeg video Wav or Mpeg audio Zip file compression of the data that can be extracted Subscribers to Artwork Archive can easily save these formats as attachments to an object's record.
Create that zing of discovery for posterity by photographing your artwork today. Image courtesy of Artwork Archive Last few words of advice on collecting provenance—both traditional and contemporary Do you own any original primary sources, like letters and drawings? Want to learn more about provenance?
Check out these articles on the importance of and types of provenance. Share This Article facebook twitter linkedin email. Related Articles. Artist , Collector. Let us know what you think. Popular Posts. Love what you see? After several of his in-person shows were cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, Abosch decided now was the perfect opportunity to sell his work as NFTs.
He plotted to auction them on OpenSea , the largest marketplace for the tokens, which sees 1. When he spoke to the Guardian on the eve of the sale in March, he said the idea that a piece of art must be a physical purchase that can be displayed somewhere is quickly becoming outdated.
An NFT auction works much like an online auction on platforms like eBay. While the NFTs were sold on Opensea, the actual string of characters that attaches the owner to their new NFT is stored on Arweave, a software that fashions itself as a kind of permanent internet by storing files in perpetuity across a distributed network of computers so that they cannot be deleted or destroyed in the future. The new web allows content to be addressed by what it is, rather than where it is which is all the old web can do , and NFTs are a case in point for how this is advantageous.
To explain: On the web as we all know it, addresses point to locations. There's a specific website and a specific file on that website where some data sits. There might be millions of copies of Nyan Cat across the internet, but a traditional HTTPS address like the one at the top of your browser right now will only point to one file online. Content addressing makes a hash of the content itself and, provided no one messes with the file, can find the nearest copy of that content when a user wants to see it.
So if there were 1, exact copies of Nyan Cat on a 1, different servers around the world, but of the servers got destroyed one day, IPFS could still find the last one left. The hash of the content would tell you it really was the content you were looking for.
Pakman has been one of the investors who has been out front on NFTs since long before the present buzz took off. He told CoinDesk this conversation about NFT persistence is one that's several steps ahead of where most buyers' minds are at right now, but he agrees that it's important.
But it's also a well-funded company in relatively little danger of vanishing over the weekend. Beyond NBA-licensed basketball cards, though, a lot of this work is being generated by independent artists — which is great: finally creatives are making some real money online. That said, if you snag an NFT from one of the many pseudonymous, edgy digital artists making unique works for sites like SuperRare, Foundation or Portion, it might be worth doing some due diligence on where that content lives online.
They could be a one-person shop. If the artist got hit by a bus and their website went down, would you be able to really prove that a hash in your Ethereum wallet corresponded to a cartoon head with a bird bouncing around inside it? The project argues that when an art buyer buys a painting, the buyer then takes responsibility for care and custody of the painting and it's out of the artists' hands.
So why, Pinata contends, should we expect digital content creators to manage ownership of NFTs forever? IPFS would be able to find either copy, but if the creator deleted theirs the new owner would still have one, and the hash would verify it was the same digital thing even though it had moved. Let's pause here because Web 3 is weird. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The name of the artist is missing. It turns out, the house of cards that is the NFT system is even more precarious than it first appears. And as anyone who has browsed the internet before should know, links can and do die. So what happens if your NFT breaks down and points to nothing? NFTs are digital tokens used to buy and sell digital art. Sometimes, a weird-looking cat.
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