--- title: "Artist Promises to Sell One of Her Eggs to Whoever Buys Her NFT" description: "Non-fungible tokens meets artificial insemination in one piece of art that's for sale at Art Basel this week." date: "2021-12-06" modified: "2021-12-06" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/artist-egg-nft" categories: - "Blockchain" - "Future Society" - "NFTs" tags: - "human eggs" - "nfts" - "the digest" --- # Artist Promises to Sell One of Her Eggs to Whoever Buys Her NFT ![Non-fungible tokens meets artificial insemination in one piece of art that's for sale at Art Basel this week.]() *\Image: Getty Images\* ## Egg Head Non-fungible tokens meet artificial insemination — in a piece of art that's for sale at the renowned Art Basel art fair this week. Artist Narine Arakelian, [as *Page Six* reports](), is including a contract promising one of her eggs to whoever buys her NFT, entitled "Live," at the Miami art exposition. The digitized piece of art comes from a physical "Live, Laugh, Love" triptych, [*The Daily Beast* noted](), and the 42-year-old Arakelian hopes that whoever buys it will actually use the egg to have a baby. "My artworks are all my children and the fact this one will actually produce a child is wonderful," she told *Page Six*. "The art will always mean so much to the buyer because it brought them their child!" ## NFTproduction While the concept is certainly outlandish, this ovarian contract is par for the course for the provocative Armenian artist, [whose portfolio includes]() "interactive paintings" that are displayed in augmented reality. She's got chops in the art world, too: in 2019, she lit up a staircase at the Venice Biennale [into a kaleidoscopic rainbow](). Amazingly, Arakelian's egg NFT isn't the weirdest one for sale at this year's Art Basel, or even the only one containing genetic material. Someone, for some reason, [implanted "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's signature]() into the DNA code of a bacterial organism, and is selling it as the "first living" NFT. Between the egg, the Roddenberry bacteria, and Trump fixer [Michael Cohen's prison badge]() being sold as NFTs at the Miami art festival, this was certainly a banner year for this bizarre — and arguably useless — digital art form. **READ MORE:** [Artist sells her eggs as an NFT at Art Basel]() \[*Page Six*\] **More on NFTs:** [*Cory Doctorow Roasts NFTs as “Massive, Fraud-Ridden Speculative Bubble"*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()