Artnet, established in 1989 to be among the world’s largest international visual art platforms with over 60 million annual visitors, joined the NFT world.
The firm recently released ArtNFT, its highly anticipated NFT marketplace. ArtNFT’s inaugural auction, ArtNFT: Beginnings collection, represents one of the industry’s first spaces devoted to NFT artists within the renowned platform.
The exhibition features works by some of the world’s leading NFT artists, including their own ongoing experiments with this exciting new technology.
The art of NFT extends from the earliest NFT inventors and pioneers through a younger generation of digital artists who have embraced NFT completely.
Artnet’s inaugural auction will feature works by Georg Nies, Herbert W. Franke, Vuk Chosic, Miltos Manetas, Kevin McCoy, Dimitri Cerniak, Osinachi, Justin Aversano, Pindar van Arman, FEWOCIOUS, and Kevin Abosch.
One of the best works in the collection is Quantum Leap, by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. This code-based NFT, which evolves over a three-year cycle, is inspired by their 2014 work Quantum, the first artwork symbolized on the blockchain.
Also of note is Pindar Van Arman’s Emerging Faces, created in collaboration with Robert “3D” Del Naja, British street artist and member of the electronic band Massive Attack. Pindar Van Arman is an American robotic artist and digital art pioneer.
Van Arman has been creating robots for his art practice since 2015. Van Arman’s robots hold a paintbrush and draw patterns controlled by an algorithm. Artnet aspires to be an indispensable platform accessible to NFT artists as well as collectors.
