What is an NFT?

Initialize la valise, 2021.

(sound on) What is an NFT? I've been pondering this question for awhile and decided to make a short film about our strange moment in cultural history. Considering the conceptual nature of NFTs, I consulted the ghost of Marcel Duchamp for his perspective.

Human and machine intelligence are merging, but not without a dollop of stupidity --which may ironically be the lasting signature of humankind, assuming computers cannot fathom how we fleshers can be so delightfully ludicrous.

Quackery

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Quackery (The Electrical Anatomy of a Quacker), 2021

Fountain NFT

Could I resist making an NFT? Could I escape the gravity of history? Could I believe the insanity? Could I ignore new history in the making? No, no, no — no, I could not.

FOUNTAIN: Infinite looping goddess, fountain of the multiverse, invert urinates bitcoins of golden light

This is my inaugural NFT and conceptual statement created in early March, 2021. I used Blender to animate a stream bitcoins and juxtaposed them onto Alfred Steiglitz's public domain image of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1919). The audio track is the sound of me urinating. Buyer: please contact me for a physical installation of this work to complete your collection.

May you be blessed by the fountain of mirrorical return.

OXO I.ZIS 2021

Link below to purchase the NFT for my Fountain (and contact me about commissioning a physical installation of the video loop):

https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/70379031952773711577539659295875789396457625798127613778149475695673691078657