(ANSA) – ROME, November 16 – The Art of Crypto Begins (RIZZOLI ILLUSTRATED FOR MONDADORI ELECTA, PP 288), Edited by Andrea Concas and Eleonora Brezzi. The Crypto Art movement, which has engulfed the world of digital art in the past year, is told through the histories and works of 50 crypto artists – including Hackatao, Refik Anadol, Kevin Abosch, Osinachi, Federico Clapis, Giant Swan and DADA Art – who helped give birth to And they are part of the NFTs – the non-fungible tokens – of the present and future of this new reality. An innovative path that can be found in the book “Crypto art – Begins”, edited by Andrea Concas and Eleonora Brezzi, published by Rizzoli illustrating Mondadori Electa, based on the idea and project of NFT Magazine, the first monthly magazine to be read and collected on the Ethereum Blockchain.
The volume will be presented for the first time in Bookcity Milano, on Saturday 19 November at 4.00 pm at the MEET Center for Digital Culture in an event open to all, upon registration at the following link (https://www.eventbrite.it/e/registrazione-bookcity-alla- scort a-della-crypto-arte-449448411297).
For the first time, Andrea Concas, founder of The NFT Magazine, theorizes and defines the “Crypto Art System” by which we transcend technological solutions, and defines its champions, along with the dynamics behind this revolution among communities, digital platforms, and artists. Through dialogue with the artists and their works, visions, aspirations, and complexities, as well as the limits of a world that is in the process of formation and discovery, emerge. To say so to NFT Magazine, curator Eleonora Brizzi, pioneer of the movement, who, in unexpected times, experienced with artists the great development and rise of crypto art, even before the disruptive descent into the market. and the contribution of the first cryptographic art historian Martin L.
Ostachowski, who has meticulously reconstructed the movement’s origins.
The innovative book “Crypto Art – Begins” also finds space in the Metaverse, with a virtual reality gallery of all participating artists accessible thanks to an NFT, which each reader can redeem for free within the volume. For the first time a publishing project enters the world of WEB3 to offer collectors the possibility to purchase a special edition book to be collected exclusively in an NFT.
Possession of the precious NFT will allow to have a preview of the physical book in its limited edition, whose covers celebrate the best work of 50 artists, as well as guarantee many experiments between the physical and the digital, giving life to one of the biggest falls in the history of crypto-art.
In Italian bookstores from November 15, 2022 in English, the book “Crypto art – Begins” will be available in the US in spring 2023 for Rizzoli New York and on the website www.thenftmag.io via NFT. (Dealing).
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