New Documentary Corrects ‘Crypto Bro’ Misconceptions about Digital Art
A few years ago, like a lot of people on the internet, documentary filmmaker Dan Sickles got turned onto the blockchain. Or, more specifically, cryptocurrency, digital art, and NFTs.
As Sickles tells it, the connection happened somewhat randomly. When his apartment was broken into, Sickles tried to stay out of the way of investigating police by chatting with online acquaintances he met while researching how to survive as an independent artist and filmmaker. “My house got robbed, but all this digital art is safe,” Sickles joked with them. Then someone offered to send him and his wife a box of kombucha, simply because they’d been through a hard time. Sickles told ARTnews that he suddenly realized the authenticity of the…
