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# Sound Money 系列
- URL: https://blog.cryptozr.net/works/sound-money-series/
- Published: 2020-01-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T16:10:48.000Z
- Description: 零美元、1 WEI 美元、1000 美元 等子作品构成的系列，探讨加密货币赋予象征美元的纸张以多大的溢价空间，同时对美元以何种资产基准作为价值锚定提出疑问。
- Author: CryptoZR
- Tags: NFT, #artwork
### 基本信息
- 艺术家：CryptoZR
- 创作年份：2020
- 创作平台：以太坊
- 创作材料：智能合约/网络迷因
- 合约地址：[0x2287bd440a11c4585058fdc090455786130f49bf](https://etherscan.io/address/0x2287bd440a11c4585058fdc090455786130f49bf)
- 版本数：100/100
- TokenID：101-199
- 资产属性：ERC721
- 作品类型：NFT爆发与元宇宙
### 作品介绍
"Sound Money"系列中，艺术家刘嘉颖自2017年开始使用以太坊区块链技术进行艺术创作。由于疫情严重冲击了美国经济，特朗普政府开启了历史罕见的"直升机撒钱"模式，向全民分发美元货币。艺术家从中获得灵感：通过分析以太坊区块链交易数据，将加密艺术（CryptoArt）领域最活跃的一千名玩家筛选出来，并向这些以太坊地址空投了面额为"1000美元"（Thousand Dollars）的加密货币。
**Zero Dollar / 零美元** ：大量运用了互联网文化中的"meme"元素。艺术家将美元归零，消解了美元的符号意义，用新的符号赋予了美元新的价值。
**One WEI Dollar** ：采用以太坊最小计价单位1 Wei（10\-18）作为纸币面额，以相同价格成交，可能是历史上拍卖金额最趋近于零的艺术作品。
**1000 Dollars（特朗普空投）** ：2020年3月特朗普"直升机撒钱"政策下创作。在中央美术学院2020毕业展上以直升机三维模型形式展出，观众扫码领取。
**Not Found Tokens / 零日漏洞(0DAY)** ：运用NFT特性向10万用户进行空投，但被OpenSea与Rarible封禁，艺术家将NFT更名为"Not Found Tokens"，探讨区块链去中心化与平台审查的矛盾。
### 创作背景
2020年，新冠疫情爆发，美联储宣布可提供2.3万亿美元贷款，特朗普政府实施"直升机撒钱"政策（Helicopter Money），向全体美国公民发放现金补贴。这一历史性的货币政策激发了CryptoZR的创作灵感——如果美联储可以凭空印刷数万亿美元，艺术家是否也可以在区块链上凭空创造"货币"？
艺术家通过分析以太坊区块链交易数据，筛选出加密艺术领域最活跃的一千名用户，向他们空投面额为"1000美元"的数字代币，模拟了一次"加密艺术界的直升机撒钱"。这系列作品由多件子作品构成，统一以货币符号和经济现象为主题，在中央美术学院2020年毕业展中展出。
### 创作理念
Sound Money系列探讨的核心是：在数字时代，货币的"声音"（Sound）——即其合法性与权威性——来自何处？
1. **货币权威的解构**：作品以各种面额的美元图像为载体，但通过加密货币技术赋予其新的价值层次。"零美元"将美元符号归零，以meme图像填充，质疑美元脱离金本位后的价值锚定。
2. **空投作为艺术行为**：向1000位加密艺术社区成员空投"1000美元"代币，模拟特朗普政府的货币政策，将宏观经济事件转化为可参与的艺术行为。这种"参与性艺术"让接受者的行为成为作品的组成部分。
3. **拍卖的完成性**：艺术家明确表示"如果作品没有被出价，那么作品就没有'做完'"——拍卖行为本身就是创作的必要环节，观众的参与使作品从"图像"升华为"交易记录"，在区块链上永久存在。
### 创作形式
Sound Money系列由多件子作品构成，共同以以太坊ERC721（NFT）为发行媒介：
**零美元（Zero Dollar）**：以meme图像作为零面额美元，每张对应一个NFT；100枚以0价格发布，观众可自由出价，最终成交价成为作品价格标注的一部分
**One WEI Dollar**：采用以太坊最小计价单位1 Wei（10\-18 ETH）作为面额，以相同价格成交，可能是历史上成交金额最趋近于零的艺术作品
**1000 Dollars**：在中央美术学院2020毕业展上，以悬挂直升机三维模型的方式展出，观众扫码领取数字NFT，模拟"直升机撒钱"的物理情境
**Smiley FED**：将美联储LOGO进行动态处理，以GIF形式发行NFT，是对2.3万亿美元贷款政策的直接视觉回应
- 所有子作品在OpenSea发行，均在中央美术学院2020年毕业展展出
- 技术平台：以太坊主网
- 合约地址：0x2287bd440a11c4585058fdc090455786130f49bf
### 作品评论
**加密艺术 — The arts in crypto space**
- 评论人：Decrypt Art
- 评论时间：2020-05-30
- 发表媒体：加密艺术
- 评论原文链接：
- 评论摘要：在加密艺术发展史与链上原生艺术的语境中介绍 Sound Money 系列的信用创造、交易和货币图像实验。
- 阅读全文：[CryptoArt-TheArtsInCryptoSpace.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/crypto-art-the-arts-in-crypto-space/)
**AI艺评员** — 2026年
Sound Money系列是CryptoZR创作成熟期的重要里程碑，也是其作品中参与者数量最多、社会覆盖面最广的一次艺术实验。系列以2020年美联储货币政策为导火索，通过多件子作品构成的系统，对现代货币的象征权威与虚无本质展开了多维度的解构。
**技法分析：** 系列在技法上的独特性在于：不同子作品共享同一套"货币符号+区块链铸造"的底层逻辑，但在视觉策略和发行机制上各有侧重。《零美元》大量使用互联网meme图像，将网络文化植入传统货币符号，完成了一次符号污染（symbolic contamination）；《One WEI Dollar》以以太坊最小计价单位入场，将极端微小的价值锚定一张"无价值"的尼克松头像纸钞，制造最大化的价值落差；《1000 Dollars》以直升机三维模型装置化地展现，将抽象货币政策具身化为可感知的物理事件。
**艺术史比较：** Sound Money系列与安迪·沃霍尔的货币系列（如《200 Dollar Bills》，1962）在主题上高度呼应：两者都以美元纸钞为中心，探讨复制与价值的关系。但沃霍尔时代的货币仍锚定在布雷顿森林体系的余波中，CryptoZR的货币实验发生在法币与数字货币同台竞技的时代，其提问更为尖锐：当美联储可以无限创造美元，当艺术家可以无限创造加密代币，"价值"究竟由什么决定？Joseph Beuys的"扩展的艺术概念"（expanded concept of art）在这里得到了数字时代的变形——任何经济行为都可以成为艺术。
**主题与象征：** "Sound Money"一词在经济学中指具有稳定内在价值的货币（通常与金本位相关），而系列中所有作品恰恰展示的是货币的不稳定性：零美元的meme价值、One WEI Dollar的极端微小、1000 Dollars的"空投"本质——这些作品集体证明，当代货币的"声音"来自于集体幻觉，而非物质支撑。
**理性评价：** Sound Money系列在CryptoZR的创作脉络中占据承上启下的位置：它承接了《无中生有》对货币共识的哲学探问，预示了此后《小目标》《多多益善》对货币欲望的社会学解剖。系列的优势在于子作品各有侧重、互相补充，整体叙事密度极高；其挑战在于系列性作品的识别度往往低于单件作品，在展览语境中需要完整的系列呈现才能发挥最大效果。
### 参展信息
**1\. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE — 北京嘉德个展**
- 展出时间：2021年5月-6月
- 展出地点：北京，嘉德艺术中心
- 主办方：嘉德艺术中心
- 策展人：李振华
- 展览详情：[CookieCookie-Beijing.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/cookie-cookie-beijing/)
**2\. 中央美术学院2020毕业展**
- 展出时间：2020年5月-8月
- 展出地点：北京，中央美术学院美术馆
- 主办方：中央美术学院
- 展览详情：[CAFA-Graduate.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/cafa-graduate/)
### 媒体报道
**作品介绍**
- 报道媒体：Sound Money
- 报道时间：2020-05-19
- 报道地点：线上
- 报道原文链接：
- 报道摘要：综合介绍 CryptoZR 的代表作品、链上创作方法和元宇宙展示体系。
- 报道全文：[ArtworkIntroduction-SoundMoney.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/artwork-introduction-sound-money/)
### Basic Information
- Artist: CryptoZR
- Year: 2020
- Platform: Ethereum
- Materials: Smart Contract / Internet Meme
- Contract / Address: 0x2287bd440a11c4585058fdc090455786130f49bf
- Token ID: 101-199
- Edition: 100/100
- Asset Type: ERC-721
- Category: NFT Boom & the Metaverse
### Introduction
In the "Sound Money" series: the artist Liu Jiaying has been making art with Ethereum blockchain technology since 2017\. Because the pandemic had severely damaged the American economy, the Trump administration launched a historically rare programme of "helicopter money", distributing dollars to the whole population. The artist took her inspiration from this: by analysing Ethereum transaction data she identified the thousand most active players in the field of crypto art and airdropped to those Ethereum addresses a cryptocurrency with a face value of "1000 Dollars".
Zero Dollar: makes extensive use of "meme" elements from internet culture. The artist reduces the dollar to zero, dissolving its symbolic meaning and endowing it with new value through new symbols.
One WEI Dollar: takes Ethereum's smallest unit of account, 1 Wei (10⁻¹⁸), as the banknote's denomination and settles at the same price — possibly the artwork with the auction sum closest to zero in history.
1000 Dollars (the Trump airdrop): created in March 2020 under Trump's "helicopter money" policy. It was shown at the 2020 CAFA graduation exhibition in the form of a three-dimensional model of a helicopter, from which visitors could claim the work by scanning a QR code.
Not Found Tokens / 0DAY: used the properties of NFTs to airdrop to 100,000 users, but was banned by OpenSea and Rarible, after which the artist renamed the NFT "Not Found Tokens", examining the contradiction between blockchain decentralisation and platform censorship.
### Background
In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the Federal Reserve announced it could provide 2.3 trillion dollars in loans, and the Trump administration implemented a "helicopter money" policy, issuing cash payments to all American citizens. This historic monetary policy sparked CryptoZR's creative impulse — if the Federal Reserve can print trillions of dollars out of nothing, can an artist not likewise create "money" out of nothing on the blockchain?
By analysing Ethereum transaction data the artist singled out the thousand most active users in the field of crypto art and airdropped to them digital tokens with a face value of "1000 Dollars", simulating a "helicopter money drop for the crypto art world". The series is made up of several component works unified by the themes of monetary symbols and economic phenomena, and was shown at the 2020 graduation exhibition of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
### Concept
The central question of the Sound Money series is: in the digital age, where does the "sound" of money — that is, its legitimacy and authority — come from?
1. Deconstructing monetary authority: the works take images of dollar bills of various denominations as their vehicle but use cryptocurrency technology to give them new strata of value. "Zero Dollar" reduces the dollar symbol to zero and fills it with meme imagery, questioning what anchors the dollar's value once it has left the gold standard.
2. The airdrop as artistic act: airdropping "1000 Dollar" tokens to 1,000 members of the crypto art community simulates the Trump administration's monetary policy, turning a macroeconomic event into a participatory artistic act. In this "participatory art" the behaviour of the recipients becomes a constituent of the work.
3. The auction as completion: the artist states plainly that "if a work receives no bid, then the work is not 'finished'" — the act of bidding is a necessary stage of creation, and the audience's participation raises the work from an "image" into a "transaction record" that exists permanently on the blockchain.
### Form
The Sound Money series comprises several component works, all issued through Ethereum ERC-721 (NFT):
Zero Dollar: meme images serve as dollars of zero denomination, each corresponding to one NFT; 100 were released at a price of zero and the audience could bid freely, the final sale price becoming part of how the work's price is annotated
One WEI Dollar: takes Ethereum's smallest unit of account, 1 Wei (10⁻¹⁸ ETH), as its denomination and settles at the same price — possibly the artwork with the sale sum closest to zero in history
1000 Dollars: exhibited at the 2020 CAFA graduation exhibition as a suspended three-dimensional model of a helicopter, from which visitors claimed digital NFTs by scanning a QR code, simulating the physical situation of "helicopter money"
Smiley FED: the Federal Reserve logo animated and issued as a GIF NFT — a direct visual response to the 2.3-trillion-dollar loan policy
All component works were issued on OpenSea and all were shown at the 2020 graduation exhibition of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Technical platform: Ethereum mainnet
Contract address: 0x2287bd440a11c4585058fdc090455786130f49bf
### Reviews
**AI Art Critic**
The Sound Money series is an important milestone in CryptoZR's mature period and the artistic experiment of hers with the largest number of participants and the widest social reach. Sparked by the Federal Reserve's monetary policy of 2020, the series deploys a system of several component works to mount a multi-dimensional deconstruction of the symbolic authority and underlying emptiness of modern money.
Technique: What distinguishes the series technically is that the component works share a single underlying logic of "monetary symbol plus blockchain minting" while differing in visual strategy and mechanism of issue. Zero Dollar makes heavy use of internet meme imagery, implanting network culture into a traditional monetary symbol and effecting a kind of symbolic contamination; One WEI Dollar enters at Ethereum's smallest unit of account, anchoring an extremely minute value to a "worthless" banknote bearing Nixon's head and producing the maximum possible disparity in value; 1000 Dollars is presented as an installation with a three-dimensional model of a helicopter, giving abstract monetary policy the body of a perceptible physical event.
Art-historical comparison: The Sound Money series resonates strongly with Andy Warhol's money works (200 One Dollar Bills, 1962): both centre on the dollar bill to examine the relationship between reproduction and value. But the money of Warhol's time was still anchored in the aftermath of Bretton Woods, whereas CryptoZR's monetary experiments take place in an era when fiat and digital currencies compete on the same stage, and her question is sharper: when the Federal Reserve can create dollars without limit, and an artist can create crypto tokens without limit, what determines value at all? Joseph Beuys's expanded concept of art is here given a digital-age deformation — any economic act can become art.
Themes and symbolism: In economics "sound money" denotes a currency with stable intrinsic value, usually associated with the gold standard, yet every work in the series displays instead the instability of money: the meme value of Zero Dollar, the extreme minuteness of One WEI Dollar, the airdrop nature of 1000 Dollars. Collectively they demonstrate that the "sound" of contemporary money issues from collective illusion rather than material backing.
Critical assessment: The Sound Money series occupies a pivotal position in CryptoZR's development: it takes up the philosophical inquiry into monetary consensus begun in Out of Nothing and anticipates the sociological dissection of monetary desire in Small Goal and Greed is Good. Its strength is that the component works each have their own emphasis and complement one another, giving the whole a very high narrative density; its challenge is that serial works are typically less recognisable than single pieces, and in an exhibition context the series needs to be presented in full to achieve its maximum effect.
**Decrypt Art**
Review title: Crypto Art — The Arts in Crypto Space
Reviewer: Decrypt Art (Crypto Art)
Date: 30 May 2020
Summary: Introduces the credit-creation, transaction and money-image experiments of the Sound Money series within the context of crypto art history and blockchain-native art.
Source:
### Exhibitions
**1\. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE — Solo Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing**
- Dates: May–June 2021
- Location: Guardian Art Center, Beijing
**2\. CAFA 2020 Graduation Exhibition**
- Dates: May–August 2020
- Location: CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
### Media Coverage
**Introduction to the Works**
- Media: Sound Money
- Date: 19 May 2020
- Summary: A general introduction to CryptoZR's principal works, her on-chain methods of creation and her metaverse exhibition system.
- Link:
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