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Invisible Labor, Visible Value. Blockchain’s Impact on the Economics and Recognition of Digital Art

dc.creatorHilsberg, Veronika
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-02T12:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractDigital art has historically encountered market challenges related to authenticity and reproducibility. This article explores the impact of blockchain technology on digital art’s valuation, visibility, and structural organization, emphasizing artistic labor and decentralized networks. Blockchain, through mechanisms like NFTs and smart contracts, offers provenance, secure ownership, and visibility of labor, leading to improved economic recognition. Additionally, DAOs are stabilizing new models for collective involvement in artistic creation and decision-making, redistributing agency among artists and communities. However, this infrastructure also facilitates the commodification of social interaction and cultural value, subjecting artistic labor to speculative market forces and raising concerns about tensions between community- driven art practice and financial speculation. Evolving legal regulations like Mi- CAR will determine the long-term viability of these frameworks. Thus, blockchain presents both opportunities and significant risks for a more transparent, equitable, and dynamic art ecosystem, increasing artistic labor‘s visibility and incorporating collective valuation models.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23994
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/25897
dc.languageeng
dc.publisheruniversi – Universitätsverlag Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1619-1641
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNavigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectBlockchainen
dc.subjectDigital Arten
dc.subjectLaboren
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleInvisible Labor, Visible Value. Blockchain’s Impact on the Economics and Recognition of Digital Arten
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2025-07-03T02:35:18
local.source.epage116
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage103
local.source.volume25

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