Harald Surkemper

I believe the work­flow of cre­at­ing art is dif­fer­ent today than it was dec­ades ago. Today, you can cre­ate and pub­lish many objects and get feed­back that allows you to choose favour­ites. These can then be brought to com­mer­cial platforms. So the goal of my exper­i­ment is how I can eas­ily cre­ate a series of images and […]

Gate­keep­ers such as gal­ler­ies con­trolled access to tra­di­tion­al art mar­kets. Only those artists who seemed fit for sale have had the oppor­tun­ity to make a liv­ing from their art. Today, on new plat­forms such as NFT mar­ket­places, any­one with an Inter­net con­nec­tion has the oppor­tun­ity to offer works of art to a glob­al audi­ence. The role of […]

Glob­al­iz­a­tion and digit­iz­a­tion go hand in hand. And both are the defin­ing factors of this generation. How­ever, in con­ven­tion­al struc­tures, the art mar­ket is a west­ern thing. New tech­no­lo­gies allow lower­ing the threshold of entry for many usu­ally excluded from cul­tur­al dis­tri­bu­tion and income generation. On NFT mar­ket­places, we see that mostly young artists from areas […]