The artist has recently joined Forbes for a talk on digital art and how it can be capitalized today.
You probably know BEEPLE or Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Charleston, who's been doing digital pieces every single day for 13 years. Beeple has recently become the first artist to auction a purely digital, NFT-backed artwork at a well-known auction house, Christie’s.
The artist has recently talked to Forbed about Crypto Art and how the weekend of Dec. 11-13 forever changed his life.
"It was very surreal, luckily my family was there. I think I honestly was in shock," Beeple said. “It took quite a while to process; I’m not even sure I have now. Afterwards it was like, ‘Oh cool, that went well,’ and it took weeks for it to sink in that, no...it went insanely well."
What happened is that Beeple sold 20 of his digital artworks for $3.5M through Nifty Gateway, a marketplace for limited-edition art and collectibles backed by NFTs. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of NFTs, they are basically digital signatures that authenticate the origin of a given thing.
Who is this artist who changed the art market? Originally, he was actually getting a degree in Computer Science to become a programmer but then realized he's more into creative stuff.
"Halfway through I realized I was spending way more time making little weird abstract digital art and digital short films," Winkelmann noted. "I got through the degree, got a job doing web design, and in my free time kept making this Beeple stuff."
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