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Leo Marx said of railroads and factories as they increasingly dotted the landscape after the industrial revolution "…there is nothing inherently ugly about factories and railroads … to dispel the ugliness which surrounds the new technology, whether in a poem or a landscape, we must assign to it its proper place in the human scale. Artists have a special responsibility to incorporate into their work such ‘new and necessary facts’ as the shop, mill, and railroad." - Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden Crypto art is undergoing a certain process of incorporating the new technology of NFTs into the human scale. What is an own-able digital asset? Are tokens as the tech currently functions that,...View all