“Planck Pixel” is defined as the smallest possible SCAM you can buy on a NFT platform.
There is (almost) nothing to lose!
Planck Pixel is defined as the smallest possible SCAM you can buy on an NFT platform.
The work consists of a single transparent pixel in PNG format. If all NFT platforms disappeared, the digital object itself would be lost, leaving only proof on the blockchain that “something” was bought from “someone” for a “certain price”.
But this disappearance would be of minimal importance, since:
1) the “something” is minimal: it is the smallest possible visual digital object. This transparent, and therefore invisible, pixel is like the Planck length of the visual digital universe;
2) the “someone” is a minimalist artist, whose identity will disappear into the limbo of history anyway;
3) the “certain price” is arbitrary, as are prices in the market of a now obsolete contemporary art.
Below this point, the very notion of value collapses.
NB: here, the price in ETH is arbitrarily set to the size of the PNG file in KB.
“Finally, real NFT art that critically reflexes and subverts technology, rather than follows common craze.”
Alexei Shulgin, pope of net.art, February 2022
This new work was inspired by the following FB thread, about NFT as SCAM:
https://www.facebook.com/christophe.bruno.5686/posts/10160299944852608
The aura of the art object cannot decay beyond this irreducible stage, it is the end of Walter Benjamin’s wandering!
“Planck pixel” claims a paradoxical threefold unicity:
1) As any cryptographic token, it is supposed to be non duplicable.
2) As any NFT, it is supposed to be non fungible.
3) It is the one and only digital object below which the very notions of digital and value collapse.