Michael Assis on Art, Digital Art & NFTs

In this episode, Michael Assis, a PhD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center, discusses his scholarship on art, digital art, and NFTs, including his dissertation in progress, Decentralized Objects: Non-fungible Tokens in the Age of Web3. Among other things, Assis explains what NFTs are and how they relate to the history and theory of art and digital art. He discusses how the concept of authenticity has evolved over time and what NFTs can tell us about the future of authenticity. Assis is on Twitter and Bluesky.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

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