Carbon footprint, monopoly, and potentiality of change: Tokenizing art as an aesthetic practice for alternative ecologies
Carbon footprint, monopoly, and potentiality of change: Tokenizing art as an aesthetic practice for alternative ecologies

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses certain aspects of blockchain-based art, including the ecology andeconomy of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), applying projects curated by Ruangrupa for documenta 15,such as Jalar, Dayra, Cheesecoin, and BeeCoin, created within the lumbung Economy. In lightof earlier investigations into the ecology of NFTs, the main areas of concern now are the ways inwhich information about the environmental effects of NFTs presents itself, the monopolization ofparticular technological mechanisms, the perpetuation of cultural biases, and, from this angle, thebelief of artists in the potential for change brought about by the new technology. Given the economicand ecological implications arising from the blockchain projects discussed in this article, I proposeto use the notion of ecosophy defined by Félix Guattari as an approach for lumbung Economy inter-pretation.

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