There are a lot of implications of bookending the series designation but one important one for me personally was the prospect of releasing curated sets in smaller edition sizes. I have a dream to see a curated set of 50 artworks, for example. There are participants in our ecosystem who are scraping together ETH to maintain a full Curated set. I am one of them, and the proposition to that collector base of having to collect a small edition piece in order to maintain a collection felt inconsiderate of the commitment shown by the collector up until now. Curated projects can and should be permitted to be released in small editions! And easing the bottleneck here by ending the series feels like a way to enable that creative expression without being detrimental to our current collector base.
Beyond that, Art Blocks is working hard towards a meaningful set of upgrades to the platform. Starting with the announcement of an updated Curatorial Board, our Engine product, and a branding refresh, Art Blocks is headed towards a more refined experience, the fruits of the last few months of heads down work that the incredible team has been doing towards what we’ve basically coined Art Blocks 2.0. This is just one of the various components of that change, and all of these updates work together to provide a better overall experience for our community.
I am personally really excited to have an ending point to the series designation and be able to look back at both my individual series and the entire bookended series in admiration of the journey Art Blocks has experienced up until now. You can literally read the story of the platform as you see the progression of projects over two years, and these dozens of Curated projects will be eternalized as the genesis of Curated artworks on the Art Blocks platform. Art Blocks Curated has been a demonstration of projects that push the boundaries of what we know is possible with both generative art in general, but also on-demand generative minting and the beauty of the technology that allows this type of artwork to exist in its current form.
I personally put a significant amount of my earnings back into the ecosystem, and have managed to assemble four full Art Blocks Curated series sets. With the end of the series designation I see these artworks as fitting into a beautiful display case as a finite set. And, I will look forward to curating my Curated sets into both virtual and in-person exhibitions, along with the many other Curated sets collected by my peers, for years to come.
