2022/05/16

Kyle McDonald’s Crypto Monument Purpose-Built to Be Torn Down

“I think of this as a monument that has been purpose-built to be torn down. It shouldn’t be the job of artists to save the planet, but sometimes we can create social and conceptual infrastructure to guide attention and action.”
– American artist Kyle McDonald, on his new cryptoart piece Amends, that seeks to offset the climate footprint of three major Ethereum-based NFT marketplaces once—if ever—the cryptocurrency switches to the less energy-intensive proof-of-stake consensum mechanism
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