For artists, they’re an invaluable tool to authenticate, protect and ensure royalties from their digital work. Joey Roth‘s Vector Field was the first example of this approach I became familiar with a few months back and Leo Villareal‘s forthcoming Cosmic Reef I find tremendously exciting. While I previously thought the “Bay Lights” project was his ultimate masterpiece, I’m reassigning that label to Cosmic Reef. Each Cosmic Reef iteration is not just a single image or short video. Light bends time as events unfold in our own lives.”Launching on Monday, 24 January, at 1PM EST, Cosmic Reef is a collection of 1,024 unique digital works.

Source: New York Times January 24, 2022 00:33 UTC