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Many projects that brand themselves as decentralized are in fact relying on:
↓ Community pinning.
↓ Marketplaces caching images.
↓ Economic incentive (collectors will “make sure” the the art survives because they have money tied up in it).
Right now, those marketplaces are essentially acting as safety nets for projects that didn’t secure their storage.
To users: It looks like nothing’s broken — your NFT still has an image. In reality: The NFT is pointing to an unreachable CID, and the marketplace is falling back to its centralized cache.
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Beyoncé With Elongated Skull (2010) A seminal post-internet video work by Iain Ball, first presented during the height of the movement in 2010. The piece reimagines the global icon Beyoncé through a surreal elongated skull form, fusing celebrity image culture with digital manipulation.
> In modernism, autonomy meant withdrawal from the world (“art for art’s sake”).
> In post-Internet, autonomy was compromised by platform capture (Flickr, Tumblr).
> In blockchain art, autonomy shifts to protocolic solidity: the work is secured by code, not by fragile material or institutional care.
That makes the contract feel more “real” than any physical instantiation of the work.
Ontologically, the contract is more durable than marble — it resists entropy by outsourcing persistence to cryptographic consensus.
Because visibility in art is tied to paradigmatic capture, evasion often looks like absence or irrelevance in the record.
Take a ChoiceCDN URL Pull out the Base64 tail Decode it in Terminal Swap to a gateway like ipfs.io Save the full-resolution original image
IPFS.io Public Gateway - Free public service to access IPFS content through your web browser. Bridge between HTTP and decentralized IPFS protocol without installing software.
Zora hides OG files:
Copy the ChoiceCDN link. Grab the base64 tail after /webp/. Run the echo ... | base64 --decode in Terminal. Paste me the output. I give you the clean ipfs.io link.
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Terminal will print another URL (either another ChoiceCDN or the direct IPFS link).
That will decode the Base64 tail inside your ChoiceCDN link. Terminal should print either another ChoiceCDN URL or the magic.decentralized-content.com/ipfs/... link.
This time it should finally output the magic.decentralized-content.com/ipfs/... link.
ChoiceCDN URL wrapping the real image
Your script is only surfacing the ChoiceCDN thumbnails (small/medium). Those URLs hide the original URL inside that long base64-looking tail (aHR0cHM6Ly9…). We can extract the original in two ways....
Metanoia.
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Walled Gardens: Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet is the study of a young generation of artists characterised by their engagement with new Internet technologies that have come to reorganize life and labour online, from mobile Internet and social media to Cloud Computing.
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