Artist: Simon Denny
Title: Backdated NFT / Cryptokitty Display Hardware Wallet Replica (Celestial Cyber Dimension)
(2018-2019-2021)
The first sale of an NFT to take place at an art auction house was held on May 12, 2018. Up for auction was “Celestial Cyber Dimension,” a Cryptokitty created by DapperLabs consisting of an image by artist Guile Twardowski hosted on a custom-designed hardware wallet with an LCD screen built by Richard Moore. Following the sale, a cardboard replica of the wallet was made and exhibited in Berlin. In 2019, an attempt was made to gift the cardboard copy to Craig Wright, a technologist and entrepreneur who has claimed to be Satoshi, the inventor of Bitcoin. An NFT...