The Art Stoke Publication is a platform for South African digital artists to share stories about their experience with NFTs and digital art on the blockchain.
Change is not just about new systems, structures or technologies – it’s about new stories. Art, media and education play a critical role in seeding these new stories.
Art Stoke Café
Building Local Community
Artstoke.co.za offers newcomers to the decentralised world, accessible content centred around digital art on the blockchain. The Art Stoke Publication expands on this, with the primary mission of gathering local South African digital artists already selling digital art on the blockchain, and inviting them to contribute their stories, work and experience. The Art Stoke Publication is therefore not just about showcasing and selling digital art, it’s about building community and shaping the South African digital art landscape through contributions made.
How to Contribute
South African digital artists who have sold digital art on the blockchain are invited to register here. Once registered, artists will be vetted and then added as a contributor (via your wallet address) to The Art Stoke Publication. All minting proceeds from your contributions will go to your wallet. Mirror is built on a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, which significantly reduces the cost of minting your articles, compared to Ethereum mainnet. Mirror uses “lazy minting”, where your article is only committed to the blockchain when a supporter, collector or enthusiast mints your work. This means South African artists can create and publish articles about their work, without the financial barrier of up-front high gas fees.
To build The Art Stoke Publication community and audience, subscribe and share widely with family, friends, local digital art collectives and social media followers.
The Art Stoke Commons Vision: A Local South African Digital Art Economy
Currently South African digital artists sell their digital art on various international NFT marketplaces. Art Stoke Commons is a framework designed to create a South African digital art marketplace and digital art ecosystem.
Art Stoke Commons envisions a decentralised digital art economy that does not conform to the usual structures of organisation and work. It exists between the extremes of non-profit economies and corporate profit-maximising models, creating a slow-profit social economy where digital artists and collectors can thrive.