In an effort to bring further attention to the plight of Julian Assange and support his bid for freedom, the prominently anonymous digital artist Pak is releasing an NFT collection in collaboration with the Wikileaks founder.
Love or hate non-fungible tokens, one thing’s for sure, like Assange himself, they do tend to grab headlines. And the artist (or perhaps artists) known as Pak is no stranger to the limelight as well, having generated an eye-watering US$91.8 million late last year for the geometrically intriguing “The Merge” NFT project.
The decentralised application (DApp)-focused data aggregator DappRader wrote a blog post about the collaborative art project earlier this week, noting:
“This collaboration makes a lot of sense. Pak is among the most revolutionary artists of the day. At the same time, Assange aims to shine a light on international affairs and political problems through WikiLeaks.
“Details about the contents and ideas of the Censored collection have not been revealed. However, considering the two partners in crime, it will definitely attract attention.”
Assange has been banged up in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison since April 2019 after his asylum status in the Ecuadorian embassy of London was revoked. He has since been indicted on 17 counts of espionage in a US court relating to classified documents he published on Wikileaks between 2010 and 2011.