M+ Lars Nittve Keynote Lecture Series:
Beeple Crashes the Art World
M+ Lars Nittve Keynote Lecture Series:
Beeple Crashes the Art World
When artist Beeple’s Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artwork Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold at a major auction house in March 2021, it spearheaded the way for underground digital artists, elevating NFTs and digital art to the forefront of public consciousness.
In this talk, Beeple will bring his lifetime of art to M+ and share his view on the future of the internet, the metaverse, and the growing influence of digitally generated art. Beeple's kinetic sculpture HUMAN ONE shows a traveller trekking across an endless evolving virtual landscape. Through the work—on view for the first time in Asia at M+—Beeple questions the progression of our evolutionary journey. Where are we heading with the continued blurring of our digital and physical existence?
This talk will be conducted in English and livestreamed via this page, M+ Facebook and YouTube. Simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese will be available. Click on ‘Register’ to sign up.
Supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Hong Kong, this free event is part of the ‘M+ Lars Nittve Keynote Lecture Series’, which invites renowned artists and scholars to share insights on broader cultural ideas and topics.
Beeple. Everydays (26.3.2018). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (23.3.2019). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (01.09.2020). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (26.12.2020). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (24.05.2021). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (26.3.2018). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (23.3.2019). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (01.09.2020). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (26.12.2020). Image courtesy of the artist
Beeple. Everydays (24.05.2021). Image courtesy of the artist
About the Speaker
Beeple (b. 1981, United States) is the professional moniker of Mike Winkelmann, a leading digital artist and designer active over the past twenty years. His rapid rise to public prominence in recent years helped to highlight the growing influence of digitally generated art. Diverse in style, Beeple’s work incorporates references from pop culture, science fiction, and politics, often with a sardonic edge. Central to his artistic practice is his Everydays project, for which he uploads images daily to his website for public critique and learns a new technical skill every year.
Portrait of Beeple. Courtesy of Scott Winkelmann
Related Exhibition
Image at top: Beeple. Collage of various VJ Loops. Image courtesy of the artist