XCOPY (artist)

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XCOPY
Other namesXCOPYART
OccupationDigital artist
Years active2014–present
Notable workRight-Click and Save As Guy, Grifters, Max Pain and Frens

XCOPY is a London based digital artist associated with crypto art and NFTs. His real identity is unknown. [1] He creates digital glitched artworks usually concerning death, dystopia and apathy through flashing imagery and distorted loops, with hints to the cryptocurrency community regarding concepts, mood and terminology. He is one of the highest selling NFT artists. [2]

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Background and rise

XCOPY started his digital artist career posting on the social media platform Tumblr, in August 2010. He posted more than a thousand individual works (other than August 2014 [3] ) for more than a decade. [4]

XCOPY is known as one of the earliest digital artists to make NFTs out of his artworks. His artworks were first turned into NFTs in 2018, in platforms like SuperRare and others. [5] Throughout the years, XCOPY's art became more popular both in and out the Crypto communities, gaining further recognition, consistently ranking amongst the top selling NFT artists and establishing record sales amongst digital and traditional art. [6]

CC0 License

On August 1, 2022 XCOPY released his work under a Creative Commons CC-zero license, [7] relinquishing copyrights to his works which were not collaborations or derivative content, and dedicating those rights to the public domain. CC0 licensing has been used to increased artwork visibility and usage, incentivizing people to remix his work and create derivatives. [8]

Notable works

Right-Click and Save As Guy

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Right-Click and Save As Guy

Right-Click and Save As Guy is one of XCOPY's best known artworks. The artwork takes aim at[ failed verification ] those who think saving, or screenshotting an image is the same as owning its related NFT. [9] The piece started receiving attention on 13 March 2021, in a BBC World News article. [10] It was bought for about $7,000,000 on 9 December 2021, making it one of the highest selling digital artworks. [11]

Grifters

On 3 March 2022, XCOPY launched via the NFT platform "Async" the collection "Grifters", 666 different images commonly used as avatars/online identities amongst the cryptocurrency communities. [12]

Max Pain and Frens

On 24 March 2022, XCOPY auctioned on NFT platform Nifty Gateway a series of five artworks called "Max Pain and Frens". "Max Pain", the main artwork of the series, was auctioned to be a ten minutes Open Edition, purchasable from 6:30 PM to 6:40 PM PST by anyone at a fixed price of $3100, with no limits of quantity. It reached the highest Open Edition selling price, at more than $24,000,000 in ten minutes. [13] [14]

Art shows and features

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References

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  2. ↑ "A look at nine most expensive NFT deals so far". cnbctv18.com.
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  4. ↑ "Sotheby's Metaverse". metaverse.sothebys.com. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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  6. ↑ "Top Selling NFT Artists in 2024". gothammag.com.
  7. ↑ "Creative Commons - No rights reserved".
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  11. ↑ "The 10 Most Expensive NFT Artworks of 2021, From Beeple's $69 Million 'Everydays' to XCOPY's $3.8 Million Portrait of 'Some Asshole'". artnet.com.
  12. ↑ "Crypto artist XCOPY's NFT project Grifters". news.cnyes.com (in Chinese).
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