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THE FUTURE OF PATRONAGE Patronage begins before consensus forms. With @ClaireSilver, @BatSoupYum, Lanett Bennett Grant (@musicalnetta), and guest moderator @JustinGilanyi, we examined what support actually does before markets or institutions confirm value. Claire returned to an acquisition that changed the trajectory of her practice and helped signal confidence in early AI art. BatSoupYum raised another distinction: the financial distance between highly visible and overlooked artists can be far greater than the artistic distance between them. Lanett pushed patronage beyond ownership. Buying is only the beginning. Writing about the work, sharing it, and explaining why it matters help create context around it. And blockchain can preserve provenance, but provenance alone cannot create discovery, interpretation, or cultural memory. So the deeper question became: Who is willing to believe in the work before everyone else agrees that it matters?

I'm going to spend $100k this year buying cryptoart from artists trying to get established. It'll come out to around 1E per week. It's not nearly enough but hopefully it helps. @musicalnetta, who is way better at this than I am, will be helping me. Here's how it works: