Kuno Goda

Kuno Goda is a pseudonymous Germany-based artist.

By his own account Goda was born in the GDR in the 1980s. The name Kuno Goda is a pseudonym, borrowed in part from Konrad Zuse, creator of the first working computer and a painter under the guise “Kuno See”. With a degree in engineering,[1] most of Goda's works relate to technology in some way.
He owes his foray into the international art scene to the digital currencies Bitcoin[2][3] and Ethereum.[4] His work "200 Bitcoins" was inspired by Andy Warhol's "200 One Dollar Bills"[5][6] and is regarded to be the first contemporary artwork for digital currency.[7] The work is dedicated to anonymous bitcoin protocol creator Satoshi Nakamoto. In March 2014 the work was sold to a Seattle businessman for an undisclosed amount.[5][8] The Wall Street Journal reported a selling price of $125.000[2] but the artist later clarified that the price was much lower.[9]
The Ethereum-related work "Glideth" features all four permutations of the renowned hacker emblem the "Glider", hand-printed on a copper-clad plate. The artwork sold for $4500 to a private collector in September 2015.[10]

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References

  1. "Kuno Goda: "I wish to make the art world aware of Bitcoin and the advantages it offers to the artists"". Bitcoin Examiner. September 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 "In the News". The Wall Street Journal. April 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  3. Vigna, Paul (2015). The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order. St Martins Press, USA. ISBN 1250065631.
  4. "Bitcoin artist Kuno Goda migrates to Ethereum". International Business Times. September 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Warhol-style 200 bitcoin print bought by anonymous buyer". The Guardian. April 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  6. "Bitcoin gets the pop art treatment". SFGate. April 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  7. "German Artist Creates Bitcoin Art Inspired by Andy Warhol". OnBitcoin. September 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  8. "Easy Money: Will the Art Market be Bitten by the Bitcoin Bug?". BlouinArtInfo. November 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  9. KunoGoda (10 November 2015). "To clarify once more: The $125k reported by WSJ are wrong! That was just the face value. Real price was MUCH lower." (Tweet).
  10. "Artist Kuno Goda Sells Crypto-Art To Swiss Gallery". CNN. November 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.

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