This week, Media Studies Ph.D. student at CU Boulder Eric Barry Drasin discusses conceptual art and the decentralized art object framework that he created. At issue: one of the key maneuvers in conceptual art is dematerialization of the art object, which refers to emphasizing the thought process even when it renders the object itself (such as painting on a canvas) obsolete. Drasin’s Decentralized Art Object Framework (DAOF) is a legal and technological framework that uses the blockchain so that it can store coded sets of instructions that would become art objects and allow both transfer and “rematerialization.” As the DAOF framework mostly replicates traditional art contract law, Drasin’s artwork uses another conceptual art maneuver; he presents several works that reimagine and interrogate reality using the framework that he created. Hosted by James Brandon McGirk, an editor at the Smart Contract Research Forum.

Eric Barry Drasin
Website: https://www.ericbarrydrasin.com/
Student site: https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/media-studies/eric-barry-drasin
Dungeonmaster LLC: https://linktr.ee/dungeonmasterllc
MFA Thesis “Exit Strategy” Exhibition Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVUgT0hO80

James Brandon McGirk
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/themcgirkeffect
Substack: https://OurCyberpunkNow.Substack.com