The final 10 auctions of 'ALGORITHMIC EVOLUTION' by Botto finalize with Verse | SOLOS for $192,373 USD or 86.96 ETH at the time of sale.
This brings the totality of all 20 1/1 auctions plus the 'Geometric Fluidity' 1/1/k primary and secondary to $895,352 USD.
Via BottoDAO:
"p5.Botto...you just had to be there"
Two auctions reach near-simultaneous conclusions:
'First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art' closes at Christie's and 5 of 5 digital Lots sell, totaling $163,800 USD:
.png)
'Contemporary Discoveries' closes at Sotheby's and 16 of 19 digital Lots sell, totaling $102,489 USD.
5 Highlights:
We see a huge conclusion to the week in digital art. Dive into the line items. Every category shines!
Botto x Verse has been a smashing success, riding polarizing debate to a fantastic outcome. Detractors are predictable and understandably come from experienced artists looking at art through a solely qualitative lens. I get it. When it comes to the art economy, that is but one variable. Narrative and fostering a network around the art are of equal importance. There is merit there too.
The auction houses can do so much better, simply for their bottom lines. It is inexplicable to have a Ringers estimate set at 30-50k. It is inexplicable to have three separate Squiggles - Pipe, Bold, and Fuzzy - offered without any reference or context to the traits themselves. I can go on, but you get the point.
Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of 3 ETH+ Collection, 0.25 ETH+ 1/1, 0.7 ETH+ 1/1/X, and 0.25 ETH+ Edition artworks
Under Threshold...
...but interesting to me is a 'FRATZE' 1/1/51 by Kim Asendorf selling for 1.4k XTZ | $1,072 USD.
CATCH UP: 2-4 Minutes of Masquerade
This series exists to update the Sam Spratt Masquerade in progress
Episode 12 (February 28th) introduced Revision and referenced Destruction data crunched by Garey Simpson.
This Week's Episodes:
ART Safari aka "The Elephant".
The 58th design is a play on Botto's Prismatic Safari, which has been called "The Giraffe". Justin Wetch dug into the p5.js code to rearrange some things, giving the elephant (and of course, the ART) a day in the safari sun.
Subscriber Count: 223
Subscribe Here