How Artists Feel About Record-Breaking Sales in the Crypto Art Market.
We created a simple survey to ask artists how they feel about the recent record-breaking sale of a transparent pixel for $15,000. This was in the context of our opinion piece The Complacency Of Crypto Art, in which we argued that the crypto art ecosystem claims to be disrupting the conventional art market while in reality, it is mostly replicating its same free-market, speculative, scarcity-driven dynamics. As a result, there has been a lot of healthy debate on social media with people arguing whether the pixel is art, whether it’s worth the price, whether it’s good or bad art, or whether such sales are good or bad for the ecosystem.
But we wanted to know HOW ARTISTS FEEL about it since they are at the center of the crypto art revolution. We made a list of 11 feelings and respondents could also add their own. Here are the results:
After 60 legitimate responses, apparently someone felt the need to manipulate these results and took the time to fill it 76 times in order to skew the responses towards an overwhelmingly positive result. 76 times! That in itself is quite telling.
We think the legitimate responses of artists are very valuable insights for this community and this emerging market. It makes sense to listen to the artists.
