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Blockchain And The Genesis Of Creative Justice To Disintermediate Creativity, Tonya M. Evans Jan 2022

Blockchain And The Genesis Of Creative Justice To Disintermediate Creativity, Tonya M. Evans

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Historically, the art market has been shrouded in opaqueness and exclusivity, permissioned access and asymmetry of information that rivals the systemic ills of legacy financial markets that led to the Great Recession. Moreover, legacy art market stakeholders have, through the centuries, been entrenched in elitist and inequitable notions of art that excluded Black artists. These legacy intermediaries have also consistently demonstrated a deep and enduring disdain for any art connected to the digital world. That is, until the age of COVID-19 and the dramatically increasing value and dominance of the non-fungible token (NFT) market.

This Essay explores why, and how, …