Toter Tots #40 (Murat Hak)

Murat Pak is a creator (or possibly a team of creators), generally known as ‘Pak’, also referred to as ‘The Nothing’, working in the Crypto Art space with pioneering AI and programming to make Art.

He is probably considered the most influential and successful digital/Crypto Artist to date. Sales of his work are roughly calculated as over USD 325 million; but the real figure likely far exceeds that.

The response to Pak’s Artistic practice seems to be love and hatred in equal proportions for his harnessing of technology into provocative concepts; such as ‘The Creation’ in which he reproduced the iconic fresco painting by Michelangelo from the Sistine Chapel, divided it into hundreds of squares and sold them off to the highest bidder:

https://twitter.com/muratpak/status/1358984573804310529

Pak seemingly takes banality to a new level with a sphere, a cube or just one pixel, however the work although mostly minimalist as well as monochromatic, is imbued with hidden games and messages, springing from elaborate and complex smart contracts; which cleverly challenges concepts of value, ownership, and identity; often with sly humor.

Because Pak’s true identity is a deliberate mystery, how better to portray his Toter Tot but as the Anonymous Collective (which he could also be, I mean, who really knows).