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Sotheby's 3AC auctions, Non Fungible Conference, Iskra Velitchkova's ESCAPE, Piter Pasma's Rayhatche, Paul Pfeiffer Vs. and more...
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I hope you are having a great weekend. It is time for another weekly digest, with 5 things worth sharing in the digital art space.
Last week, I shared a brief overview of Sotheby’s Three Arrow Capital auctions. I tried to predict future auction estimates —it turns out I was waaaay off on Dmitri Cherniak's “The Goose” Ringer.
Sotheby's Metaverse arm sells over $2.5M as part of 3AC auctions
Three Arrows Capital (3AC) was a hedge fund founded by Kyle Davies and Su Zhu that collapsed and filed for bankruptcy in June 2022 (after borrowing billions of dollars to fund its operations). The firm invested in an extensive list of protocols and blockchains (e.g., Solana, Luna, Ethereum, Polkadot, and Aave).
2. I’ll visit the Non-Fungible Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 7, 8, and 9. There will be some exciting “Blind Talks” with non-doxxed artists and collectors like Claire Silver, pak, and Cozomo de’ Medici.
Get an 80% discount on your conference ticket using this link and using the promo code: KALOH20
3. Iskra Velitchkova released “Escape” and joins William Mapan and Stefano Contiero as generative artists that released on Tonic.xyz.
The Dutch Auction minted out at 0.25 ETH; the floor is currently 0.42 Eth, and the total secondary volume is 50 Eth — according to OpenSea.
4. Collectors and artists have been going crazy playing with Piter Pasma’s Universal Rayhatcher —commanding over 20,000 Tezos in the secondary market — and capable of creating unique pieces like the one below.
Claus Wilke wrote a fantastic article about it on fx(text) 👉 Read Rayhatching a Truchet tiling.
5. Community member Thoth collected micro Acequia #251 by Rich Poole and ThePaperCrane. I love this piece and thought it was worth a mention in today’s digest.
Thoth threw in 1 Eth in addition to the 2,800 Tezos…
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Bonus: I’m excited to offer allowlist spots to Premium readers for Paul Pfeiffer’s Vs. collection.
A meditation on our collective cultural obsession with mass spectacle and ritual, Vs. is comprised of edited footage pulled from two iconic boxing matches featuring eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.
The collection consists of two long-form video works (each an edition of 5 plus 1 AP) and 150 short-form clips (each unique and variable in duration).
Pre-sale (allowlist) - June 7: 0.25 Eth.
Public sale - June 8: 0.35 Eth.
Editons: 150.
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