left gallery

left gallery produced and sold downloadable objects, curated and artist-run 2015-2022 #nft #erc721 – leftgallery.eth

[left gallery @leftgallery]

13/ It therefore seemed fitting to use this occasion of the auction and sale of the 70 @spike_art Covers (in particular its web3 issue), to announce we discontinue the activities of left gallery in the capacity is has had.

[Harm van den Dorpel @harmvddorpel]

🎁 All holders of https://t.co/hWtZS5WmBE can have their token image be replaced to one of the 20.000 pieces from the full genealogy of https://t.co/8rSZYo3ZI0

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To stay informed about NFT drops, you might like to follow this telegram channel https://t.co/s6bKbNNS3x

[Outland @outland_art]

𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁.𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆

Wow, it's the end of an era! Iconic https://t.co/B39ke58N0l gallery @leftgallery is shuttering its virtual doors. We sat down with Founder @harmvddorpel to talk about the legacy of Left, and what's next.

https://t.co/p1ypvI6BI6

[Spike Art Magazine @spike_art]

A week after the @ourZORA x @leftgallery auction that got this party started, we're weighing in with some reflections on our first experience selling NFTs.
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Read here:
https://t.co/BaWX1wHzyR

[left gallery @leftgallery]

@XLR8R @spike_art @ourZORA Thank you! Actually the minting of the 69 covers is not on Zora but here https://t.co/ExwbT83MbI

[XLR8R @XLR8R]

5/7 @spike_art Magazine partners with @leftgallery for an NFT collection selling all 70 magazine covers from its 15-year history, minted via @ourZORA.

[left gallery @leftgallery]

Walled gardens, that is

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9/ However: over the years it turned out to be nearly impossible to distribute apps to mobile devices or e-books to e-readers without using the wallet gardens of app stores, which take significant cuts on sales and employ harsh censorship of content and restrict functionality.

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@hxrts Thank you Sam! 💚

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@zariat @spike_art thank you 💚

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13/ It therefore seemed fitting to use this occasion of the auction and sale of the 70 @spike_art Covers (in particular its web3 issue), to announce we discontinue the activities of left gallery in the capacity is has had.

[left gallery @leftgallery]

15/ And in particular we love to thank all artists, curators, collectors for their support and trust over the years.

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14/ We will continue to offer support, host, and seed IPFS hashes for the artworks we have sold.

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12/ Co-founder @harmvddorpel has decided to commit to his own artistic practice.

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11/ Co-founder @palomarodriguez has shifted her primary focus on intercultural conflict mediation and coaching https://t.co/nMUza1VKmE

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10/ Now, in 2022, there clearly are many minting and sales platforms for NFTs, and a huge and exciting market has emerged for these artworks.

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8/ We wanted to create a curatorial context and technical infrastructure to disseminate and monetise digital artworks and software art, and support artists.

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7/ At the time, few were interested or understood the potential of crypto tech to question, improve, and correct the power structures of the internet.

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6/ The foregrounding of the dish’s colonial origins not only placed an elided aspect of European history in the spotlight, but also sought to explore the quasi colonial relations that are built into the Internet’s infrastructure, a mentality we wanted to confront and oppose.

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5/ The event was accompanied by a meal prepared by @harmvddorpel consisting of "gado gado" — Indonesian specialties which became familiar to Europeans as the advance of Dutch colonialism subsumed the territory known today as Indonesia.