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