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Open Toolkits

Open Toolkits

OERs composed by MA Contemporary Art Theory Students

Pixel Reverie: Unravelling the Mysteries of Digital Art

Own a set of pixel collection and suffer the crypto revolution!

Part 1  Brief introduction (2 min) 
Part 2  Practice (13 min)  
Part 3  Conclusion (5 min)  

PART 1: BRIEF INTRODUCTION

There is a rumor that the Mona Lisa in the Louvre has been replaced with fakes several times throughout history. Is there any chance it’s a forgery, even if it’s one in ten thousand?

NFT (non-fungible token) is a token that is a cryptographic digital proof of interest architected on the Ethereum blockchain. It can be used as a unique line of identification for works of art. A painting, a piece of music, a text and a video can be used as an NFT

This toolkit will take you through the digital art field by helping you create a set of pixel pictures. By the end of this section, you will have learned to generate a set of pixel art similar to the one shown below:

At the end of the learn, think about these questions:
-Discussing Contemporary Artists’ Shifting Identity in the Internet Age.
-Do you believe NFTs are better for copyright protection?.

 

PART 2: PRACTICE

Watch the video tutorial and give it a try!

Online platform:

1. Draw with: https://www.pixilart.com/. Draw different colored dots and lines on the canvas and save it.

2. Generate with: https://nft-generator.art/app#. Import the pictures and break the order; it will help you regroup.

(video). 3 min

 

PART 3: CONCLUSION

Give your series of pixel art a name and share it.

Reflection on the questions in Part 1.

 

More source about NFT:

Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain (Edited by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner)

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