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A token sale: Christie's to auction its first blockchain-backed digital-only artwork


By Denise Thwaites, Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities , University of Canberra
Everydays: The First 5000 Days Beeple
Since May 2007, US-based digital artist Mike Winkelmann (who goes by the name Beeple) has posted a new artwork online every day. He posted the 5,000th one in January, and has now packaged them into an enormous digital collage titled Everydays: The First 5000 Days, which will be auctioned online by Christie’s on February 25.
The work will be sold in purely digital form, as a 21,069 × 21,069-pixel JPEG file and a “non-fungible token” or NFT. NFTs use blockchain technology to give the successful bidder unquestioned ownership of the work. ....

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Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India


Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India
The book Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India , edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it.
File photo of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collecting data from a citizen for Aadhar. Photo: Reuters.
Tech06/Feb/2021
About a decade ago, the CEO of a data analytics firm I worked for in Bangalore vied for the data that would be produced by Aadhaar as it was expected to connect to a series of other datasets that practically governed our life. His repeated request to the representatives of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), at a presentation which the latter made on the company’s premises, was simply to hand over the data to him. For a company whose main line of work was to interpret data for “intelligence”, which is to mine data for pointers on ....

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