'Time Is Now a Medium': Academics Ponder NFTs at Oxford University Conference
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Oxford University opened its doors to NFTs last week with its inaugural OxBAT (Oxford Blockchain, Art & Technology) Conference. Billed as “the first multi-disciplinary conference on the aesthetic, social, and anthropological perspectives on blockchain art,” it represented a very different take on crypto and NFTs.
"HODL" t-shirts and rousing speeches about how crypto will change the world were nowhere to be seen; in their place were sober academic discussions on the aesthetics of NFTs, their cultural significance, and how the unique properties of blockchain technology might be used to create new forms of art. If anyone can explain what “Smart Contracts and the Becoming-Agenital of Digital Art Objects”.
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