{"id":131548,"date":"2020-12-11T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/award-winning-nft-artwork-exhibited-on-giant-billboard-at-la-intersection\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:47:03","slug":"award-winning-nft-artwork-exhibited-on-giant-billboard-at-la-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/award-winning-nft-artwork-exhibited-on-giant-billboard-at-la-intersection\/","title":{"rendered":"# Award-winning NFT artwork exhibited on giant billboard at LA intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Award-winning NFT artwork exhibited on giant billboard at LA intersection<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>\nA piece of interactive art by Micah Johnson, a former Major League Baseball player turned nonfungible-token artist, will spend the next month <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Micah_Johnson3\/status\/1335951319010582528\">exhibited<\/a> on a giant electronic billboard in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Micah Johnson\u2019s \u201c\u02c8s\u00e4-v(\u0259-)r\u0259n-t\u0113\u201d (pronounced \u201csovereignty\u201d) was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and features two African American boys hoping to fulfill their dream of becoming astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>This is represented by a spacesuit behind a closed door. Each year on the boys\u2019 birthdays, they move closer to the gradually opening door, depending on the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) donations made by holders of a nonfungible token version of the artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork will be displayed on the StandardVision billboard on the side of the Courtyard Marriot hotel on West Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles from Dec. 7 through Jan. 10, 2021<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-12\/f925df46-1870-4c5f-91be-e737961296bb.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jacquelin Napal, owner of Art Angels \u2014 the gallery showing the artwork \u2014 explained that the piece of drive-by art was intended to provide the public with some cultural relief during the coronavirus pandemic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEveryone should have the opportunity to view art and experience culture. We hope bringing poignant works like <strong>\u02c8s\u00e4-v(\u0259-)r\u0259n-t\u0113<\/strong> to the community will serve as a refreshing shift of focus away from our current predicament.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, the artwork was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/micah-johnsons-time-sensitive-photograph-that-follows-and-impacts-real-life-subjects-sells-for-over-120k-on-async-art-301174378.html\">sold<\/a> for over $120,000 on the Async Art platform, a record for a purely NFT artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also won the headline \u201cNFT of the Year\u201d award at the 2020 NFT Awards announced this week.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Micah Johnson\u2019s \u201c\u02c8s\u00e4-v(\u0259-)r\u0259n-t\u0113\u201d (pronounced \u201csovereignty\u201d) was inspired by the Black Lives Matter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-12\/ac090fe9-13e9-4f09-b243-87f4f70e601f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74935,116,70553,4965],"class_list":["post-131548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-nonfungible-tokens","tag-art","tag-los-angeles","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}