Thread by @punk6529

1/ NFTs, and metaverses in general, are absolutely going to be a boom for the enjoyment and promotion of art.

Every civilian I have brought into NFTs has gone from "talking 0% about art in their daily lives" to "some number greater than 0%"

2/ Imagine trying to get people into generative art circa five years ago?

This was a niche field of the art world with dry textbooks and very specific galleries and museums in specific cities to see the originals.

There was no way to build engagement on a global level.

3/ Now the combination of:

✅Internet accessibility
✅Largish collections (accessible)
✅Economic skin in the game
✅Personal online galleries

Make it more engaging and, guess what, when something is more fun and on the global internet, more people will participate

4/ I will inevitably have someone in my feed that will explain to me that people are buying the "wrong art" for the "wrong reasons"

As if the "right reason" to be into art is to write long academic textbooks or pay up for the socially constructed hot contemporary artist

5/ Real life art museums are both awesome (I love them, of course) but to large numbers of people intimidating.

As are galleries - the average SoHo gallery is *not* necessarily a welcoming place to a civilian.

6/ We will reach orders of magnitudes more people using the power of the "internet".

And even more as the visualizations get better and more fun.

Soon art will be everywhere, all around us

🤝