"Workshops in Mind-Leaping: Developing Creativity for the Electronic Age" were developed at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies by Mel and Ari Alexenberg, a father and son creative collaboration, in 1985.
FROM CYBERART TO CRYPTOART: Mel Alexenberg is an artist creating blockchain NFT documented Rembrandt cyberangel virtual flights as cryptoart. His pioneering digital artworks are in the collections of thirty museums throughout the world from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He is author of the book The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, former art professor at Columbia University, and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
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MARTE Museum of Art of El Salvador is 7,611 miles from Jerusalem, Israel; 36 miles from Jerusalén, El Salvador; or 0 miles via The Cloud
Jerusalén is
a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador with a population
of 3,000. It was founded by the Cordova family that had moved to El Salvador in
the mid 1700's. They were Sephardi Jews who were expelled from
Spain.
El Salvador
President Nayib Bukele attended the 32nd International Mayors Conference
in Jerusalem, Israel, in February 2018 when he was mayor of San
Salvador. He prayed at the Western Wall and revealed that his wife's
grandfather was a Sephardic Jew.
First
Nation to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender
President
Bukele introduced a bill to the Legislative Assembly in June 2021 to make El
Salvador the first nation making bitcoin legal tender. Athena
Bitcoin stated that it intended to invest one million dollars into installing
1,500 cryptocurrency ATM’s that would be able to exchange the US Dollar
for bitcoin, or vice versa. On 6 September 2021, Bukele announced that the
Salvadoran government had bought its first 400 bitcoins. The following day, the
Bitcoin Law came into effect, making bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador.
In November
2021, Bukele announced that he planned to build the world's first bitcoin city
in the southeastern region of La Union at the base of the Conchagua
Volcano, which would use geothermal energy generated by the volcano to power
bitcoin mining.
Rembrandt
Cyberangel Flight from Israel to El Salvador
The image
above shows the virtual flight of Rembrandt inspired cyberangels from the
Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the MARTE Museum of Art of El Salvador. It is a
digital expression of the biblical passage of angels in Jacob’s dream ascending
from the Land of Israel and going down throughout the world bringing messages
of peace.
“A ladder
was standing on the ground, and its top reached up toward heaven, and angels
were going up and down on it.”(Genesis 28:12)
The cyberangels emerge from the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum where the oldest manuscripts of the Bible are housed and fly to El Salvador. It is based upon a digital serigraph created in 1987 by the artist Mel Alexenberg at the Israel Museum affiliated printmaking center in Jerusalem that shows Rembrandt cyberangels going up from a NASA satellite image of the Land of Israel.
From Cyberart to Cryptoart
It would be an appropriate expression of El Salavador being the world leader in making cryptocurrency legal tender to transform Alexenberg’s pioneering cyberart into cryptoart as the first NFT in an art museum collection,
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