| Mark Amerika’s new work of conceptual digital art, Everyone Has Their Price, doubles as an experimental NFT. The work grows out of Amerika’s three-decade career as a net artist, VJ, novelist, web publisher and multiplatform storyteller who uses fiction as his primary medium.The narrative, which Amerika started writing in 2014 before there were NFTs and a viable market to sell them on the blockchain, revolves around an ever-morphing band of generative net artists who fight the corporate overlords ruling over the Metaverse. The artists, two of whom are immunocompromised and unable to freely roam through vaccine hesitant America, circulate in a virtual world populated by NFT art stars, Super Fans, collectors, Web3 developers, crypto-critics, wraparound gendermorphs, MFA Turks, meme machines and an agitated tribe of End Timers. They respond to the endless coronavirus pandemic by intentionally holing themselves up in a ranch house basement on the eastern edge of Colorado where they survive on drone-delivered superfoods and megadose marijuana edibles paid for with ETH royalties generated from the sale of customized NFTs produced by their expertly programmed AI, the Meta Remix Engine. But success is complicated, and the ludic crew begin questioning the way their artwork has suddenly become a financial instrument for day traders only interested in quick profits.To counteract the strange vibes they start to feel due to their unexpected fame and growing fortune, the gang of four decides to create a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) that they hope will enable others to join their collective cyberpunk fantasy. This isn’t as easy it sounds, though, for the band of NFT crypto bros must always make sure their customized e-commerce solutions adhere to the strict protocols of the planet’s singular governing body, GIFS 6.0 (Global Intelligence Filter System 6.0), and its Division of Affective Data Analysis (DADA). Meanwhile, they use their skills as media archaeologists to furtively escape the social pressures of the Metaverse by teleporting themselves into an ancient 3D world created with an old-school virtual reality modeling language written in the 90s.It is only when they go back in time that they can begin training themselves to experience what they refer to as the ultimate state of transcendental interoperability. The PDF of the work is available for free at the IPFS file associated with the 1/1 NFT located at objkt.com. Readers can also download the PDF directly from this site from markamerika.com The primary collector who collects the work and holds on to it for at least six months will, upon request, receive a one of kind physical artist book signed by the artist.  |
Everyone Has Their Price (An NFT Novel)
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