What's at stake: Business advisory firm We Are Indigo had no experience in commissioning and developing arts projects when it gained $5.3m to set up a digital arts agency, artists claim.
Background: Indigo won the lucrative Covid recovery contract amid another government funding row, and seemed more focused on promoting NFTs, according to specialists who tried to advise them.
Main players: We Are Indigo, Toi Hourua, Creative New Zealand, Joff Rae, June McCabe.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are an elusive concept, and the artistic merit of the technology is more ethereal still.
In Ant Smith’s view, an image of a cartoon-type character recorded on a blockchain is not art.
The composer and sound designer known in the business as Antsmif claims a glittering
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What's at stake: Business advisory firm We Are Indigo had no experience in commissioning and developing arts projects when it gained $5.3m to set up a digital arts agency, artists claim.
Background: Indigo won the lucrative Covid recovery contract amid another government funding row, and seemed more focused on promoting NFTs, according to specialists who tried to advise them.
Main players: We Are Indigo, Toi Hourua, Creative New Zealand, Joff Rae, June McCabe.
