Last month, the programmer bought the world's most expensive NFT - US artist Beeple's Everydays: The First 5,000 Days - highlighting how virtual work is establishing itself as a new creative genre. With NFTs, many see an opportunity to monetise digital art of all kinds, offering collectors the bragging rights to ultimate ownership, even if the work can be endlessly copied. He plans to display his digital art in a virtual gallery - and plans to hire an architect to design it. Beeple began The First 5,000 Days in 2007, when he was a bored web designer, and created a work of art each day. Right place, right timeAs an undergraduate engineering student, Sundaresan said he could not even afford a laptop.

Source: The Star April 16, 2021 12:33 UTC