Yoshiyasu Tamura
Born in Gunma Prefecture in 1977. While working as a professional manga artist, he also produces paintings, and in 2011 began exhibiting his paintings around the world. He is currently active both in Japan and overseas, mainly participating in art fairs and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
His pioneering work has attracted attention from a variety of fields, including a solo exhibition at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Italy, design work for London-based fashion brand McQ Alexander McQueen, exhibitions at art fairs and festivals both in Japan and overseas, and being selected as a noteworthy artist by major art supply brands and art magazines, giving lectures and workshops around the world.
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Conventional NFTs were based on public blockchains such as Ethereum, which involved procedures unrelated to art when handling digital data of artworks. As such, they did not appear to be fully abstracted as an economic activity, and so they were not actively adopted. However, DC3 Content is a more abstract, pure solution that solves these issues.
Does digital data, which is ultimately nothing more than a string of numbers, have any value? However, this also raises the question of whether, ultimately, there is any value in sensations, which are nothing more than electrical signals input from human organs such as the eyes and ears.
Just like the story of the butterfly dream.
It is an interesting fact that as technology advances, philosophical questions that have remained the same since ancient times emerge.
My work, which involves creating physical works using canvas and paint while at the same time producing and presenting digital data in the form of DC3 content, can be said to be the latest in contemporary artistic endeavors that follow the challenges of the great masters of the past while also respecting the historical demands of the advancement of abstraction (meta) in various fields.