Artist releases NFT's of innovative digital art from 1985

BLUFFTON, S.C., Dec. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Interdisciplinary artist Alan Tibbetts has just minted 3 NFT's of early digital art. In 1985, years before the release of Adobe Photoshop, Alan made three unique digital images at Lightspeed Computers in Boston. Artist and entrepreneur Francis Olshafskie created Lightspeed, a proprietary graphics imaging software company, for leading edge photographers. Alan rented time off hours on the system to create art with these new tools using his own photographs and topical images collected from print media.

Storage for this new medium used Light Valve Technology via a film recorder to capture the digital information on direct positive film (slides). He had each of the slides made into a single Cibachrome print at a local lab.

Alan's imagery was drawn from the current events of the time which included hostage taking by terrorists, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, famine in Ethiopia as well as popular cigarette advertising. These new digital editing and painting tools were alien and a challenge to use, and as it was quite expensive to rent time on the system, his work has a somewhat raw and rudimentary feel to it.

When Alan made these digital images in 1985 very few artists were aware of this innovative technology, but the exception was Andy Warhol who was using an Amiga computer to create digital drawings.

Each of Alan's NFT's are comprised of a high-resolution digital file of the image with Adobe Content Credentials; the original slide transparency; and the sole Cibachrome print measuring 11x14", signed and stamped and stored in an archival box. Alan's rare digital art NFT's can be seen at OpenSea.

For more information about the collection visit Alan Tibbetts website.

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