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An NFT art collection featuring portraits of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be part of this year’s Biennale Arte, the International Art Exhibition held in Venice. The collection, named This Cannot Be Erased, is the work of acclaimed Greek artist Miltos Manetas, a long-time friend of the jailed whistleblower. The NFT mint, which gets underway […]
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An NFT art collection featuring portraits of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be part of this year’s Biennale Arte, the International Art Exhibition held in Venice. The collection, named This Cannot Be Erased , is the work of acclaimed Greek artist Miltos Manetas, a long-time friend of the jailed whistleblower.
The NFT mint, which gets underway June 23, is made up of 111 tokenized portraits of the activist that Manetas painted as part of the viral #AssangePower campaign. Funds raised during the sale will be allocated to the Pavilion DAO, a newly-created pillar of the event’s Internet Pavilion tech tent now in its seventh edition. Interestingly, Manetas was the one who first brought the Pavilion to the Venice Biennale in 2009.
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