Frequently asked questions

Collecting a Feral File artwork grants you a specific set of property rights to your artwork as well as access to the artwork files themselves. You can explore these rights in Feral File Artist + Collector Rights. Collecting a work also gives you access to its original, high-quality files and source code (in the case of software-based works), which you can download, display, and even loan to others.

Feral File has its own longer-term storage which is mirrored over IPFS, a distributed file system. These IPFS resource endpoints are contained in your artworks’ smart contract metadata. You can also download the artwork files for any artwork you own by selecting the artwork in your collection then clicking “Download Artwork.”

You don't need an account. Open the Feral File app and add the wallet that holds the edition under Mine. The work appears in your collection and plays on an Art Computer from there.

Collectors do not receive any advantage or priority whether they use credit cards or cryptocurrency for payment.

We process credit card payments through Stripe in the United States under Feral File Inc. Your card statement may show “FERAL FILE INC” (or a Stripe-formatted variant). Depending on your bank, you may be asked to verify online purchases before authorization. If prompted, please confirm the transaction is from Feral File Inc.

Feral File supports two different auction formats to collect exhibition sets: falling-price auctions and highest-bid auctions. The curator and artists for each exhibition choose the most appropriate auction format for collecting their exhibition sets.

In a falling-price auction, the auction starts at a specific price then falls to a final "base" price over a duration of 30 minutes. Bidding earlier (at a higher price) gives you a greater chance to collect the exact sets you want. If all sets are not sold in the first 30 minutes, the remaining sets are sold at the base price for the next 23.5 hours. At the end of the 24-hour auction period, any remaining sets are removed from sale at Feral File.

In a highest-bid auction, the auction starts at a reserve price for each exhibition set with bidders attempting to outbid one another to win the set. The person with the highest bid at the end of the auction wins the set. Bids must always be higher than the current highest bid, and all bids placed are public and cannot be withdrawn. A highest-bid auction lasts for 24 hours. To prevent bid sniping, a bid placed within the last 5 minutes of the auction extends the auction period by 10 additional minutes. Sets that receive no bids are removed from sale at Feral File when the auction closes.

As a continuation of Feral File’s origins in the a2p (“artist-to-peer”) experiment, all artists in a group exhibition swap works with one another. The lowest-numbered sets from each exhibition are automatically reserved for the curators, artists, and Feral File archive. For example, if an exhibition has one curator and eight artists, set #1 will be reserved for the curator, sets #2 through #9 for the artists, and set #10 for the Feral File archive.

After 24 hours, unsold sets will no longer be available on Feral File. The artworks may be sold through private transactions to collectors or institutions over time or may even be burned, based on artist preference for each exhibition.

Feral File artists are selected for each exhibition by that show’s curator. We don’t currently have a way for artists to upload work directly to Feral File or to be considered for selection by curators.

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