Annie,
I love this response! - and I think you've really latched onto something
here. '/Being made of code and rules is not the same as//having a
soul... //Plantoid seems to be conservative, reinforcing the
characteristics it//started with...' /There's a real sense of
claustrophobia and frustration about some of the Blockchain-based
artworks, unquestionably brilliant though they are, in that although
they seem to be offering a commentary on the shortcomings and
limitations of the Blockchain, they seem at the same time to be binding
us to those shortcomings and limitations, freezing us into that world,
suggesting that we are all going to be subject to this new version of
reality and unable to escape from it. Yes, this stuff is creeping into
every aspect of our culture. Yes, we are all going to be touched by it
and influenced by it, directed by it, shaped by it, just as we are by
capitalism, mass marketing and mass media. But no, it doesn't define us
or completely contain us. We can still be human in spite of it. At least
I hope we can: and I hope that along with Blockchain art and the like,
we can still have an art that celebrates and explores the bits of
existence that the Blockchain and the like can't comprehend. Beyond the
plantoids there are still real plants.
Edward
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