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early digital art nfts

Postmasters Gallery has exhibited and represented pioneering digital artists since the early 1990s. This NFT collection of historical artworks are available for the first time exclusively on PostmastersBLOCKCHAIN. Artworks were made between the 1990s and early 2000s using emerging digital technologies.

Sheik Attack, 1999/2000

digital video file, machinima, running time: 16:32

Sheik Attack is a contemporary non/fiction horror film woven from pop nostalgia, computer war games, the sweat of virtual commandos, the blood of Sheiks and a mis-remembrance of a long lost Zionist Utopia.

2000 (7960691), 2000

video, 540 × 540px, running time: 0:01

edition 2,3,4, 5 of 5 + 1 AP

$2000

ETH 0.83

Flames, 1997

digital video file, machinima

edition of 3

$250000

ETH 103.2

SuperMario Rolling, 1998

digital file, machinima•

edition of 3

SuperMario Sleeping (under a painting), 1997

digital video file, machinima•

edition of 3

wolfgang staehle

video stills

Pan, 1995

video, 720 × 576 px, running time: 5:57

$25000

ETH 10.32

This work consists of two video screens in which characters poetically “communicate” with each other’s screens via a “virtual black hole.”

josé carlos casado

pandora’s box [revisited].v01a, 2001

video + 3D, 1920 x 1080px

$20000

ETH 8.26

multi-channel video installation, 720 × 576px

$25000

ETH 10.32

Desert, 1997

multi-channel video installation, 720 × 576px, running time: 5:10

$25000

ETH 10.32

josé carlos casado

inside.v07, 2002

3D animation, 720 x 480px, running time: 0:16•

edition of 3/5

josé carlos casado

video + 3D, 720 x 486px

$10000

ETH 4.13

wolfgang staehle

Empire, 2001

digital chronophotography, 1920 × 1080px

$20000

ETH 8.26

The source material for this work is a collection of 10,000 shots from Starsky & Hutch.

jennifer & kevin mccoy

Every Shot, Every Episode, 2001

installation

Not Available

jennifer & kevin mccoy

animation

Not Available

Evoking a disintegrating communique, this early digital video shreds and shifts the face of a young woman, often passing through episodes of skull like imagery or even complete abstraction.

jennifer & kevin mccoy

Transmission Slows, 1997

video, 1280 x 720px, running time: 4:59•

“Little Movies” is a project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, where a vintage film clip gets reduced to a single pixel.

Shower, 1994

video, 160 x 120px

$200000

ETH 82.56

“Little Movies” is a project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, where a vintage film clip gets reduced to a single pixel.

Scan, 1994

video, 160 x 120px

$200000

ETH 82.56

Pixel, 1994

video, 320 x 240

$250000

ETH 103.2

A greyscale image of a mans face is pixilated. The mans facial hair is in the shape of a heart and is circled in red.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Totem, 1998

animation, 384 x 398px, running time: 0:54

$40000

ETH 16.51

An animation of a collection of Erik Adigard’s “Funnel” series.

erik adigard + m-a-d

animation, 593 x 641px

$10000

ETH 4.13

A mid 1990’s Macintosh computer display with multiple tabs open. The largest tab is an excerpt relating to gay sex written in a black text over a green background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Funnel Communion

digital image, 593 x 641px

$8000

ETH 3.3