Actually for anyone with a website who wants to look at it with a fresh, but also critical eye — whether it's about art, or your online presence as an extension of your offline services.

Maybe you think it's important that visitors to your website are not unnecessarily tracked. Or you feel like you're paying too much for what you get. Maybe you want your website to function as a pleasant, clear homepage with some extra information about yourself, and then redirect visitors to your socials.

That's all possible.

I am Rutger van der Tas, artist and cryptoart enthusiast. Driven by curiosity, I explore how we can do things differently, and I like to work together on imagining Utopia.

In 2014 I graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (DOGtime) in Amsterdam.

My practice is at the intersection of traditional and digital art. I combine classical techniques such as painting and drawing with digital tools, including AI and other computational processes. Since 2019 I have been active in the world of digital art and NFTs. I experimented with programmable art on platforms like Async Art and worked on layered art projects where multiple artists jointly shape one work.

In my work I explore the relationship between man and digital reality: how technology affects our lives, our attention and our worldview. In addition to digital projects, I remain active in the physical art world; my work has been shown in various galleries and museums. I keep exploring the boundary between the material and the digital.

www.rutgervandertas.com

1. Introduction: The introduction meeting is free. We discuss who you are, what you need and what we can do.

2. Analysis: I analyze your current website: where is your domain and data hosted, what are the cookie settings, and how can the website be optimized? Within a week you'll receive a document with the findings.

3. Plan: We schedule a follow-up meeting to go through the findings and discuss what the next steps are.

4. Action: After that, you can get started with the suggestions yourself, or we'll tackle it together. Based on the work, you'll receive a clear quote from me.

Packages:

Package 1 — Basic website: One-time between €390 and €990 (excl. VAT) + €150 per year for hosting, domain & maintenance.

Package 2 — Custom website: From €1000 (excl. VAT) + €150 per year for hosting, domain & maintenance.

Homepage: €195 (excl. VAT) one-time + €5 per year for storage.

In short, CryptoArt is a digital artwork (a file) that is linked to a smart contract. That smart contract refers to a stored image or other digital work. This makes the artwork unique, transferable and collectible.

You can send CryptoArt from one wallet to another. This ownership and transfer are recorded via blockchain technology.

I see CryptoArt — and the use of NFTs (as they are also called) — as a valuable addition to your digital presence. It offers artists a way to give their work online official status, including provenance and ownership.

On social media, your content disappears into the 'black box' of the platform. What you post becomes part of an algorithm, used to fill timelines and increasingly to train AI. You are usually not (anymore) the owner of your work. The question then is: who actually benefits from this?

CryptoArt offers a creator more control and ownership over what you put on the internet.

Link to my profile on Objkt: https://objkt.com/@rutgervandertas

As an artist, I have led various projects and know how to create 'living' artworks that use real-time data, have their own smart contract and are stored on IPFS or Arweave.

If you want an ENS domain name and link it to your website that is stored decentralized, I can help you with that. For more information, see https://eth.limo/.

Examples:

• lookingforsatoshi.eth.limo

• rutgervandertas.eth.limo

An important advantage of this is that you have no recurring hosting costs for name and content, while still building a modern, decentralized web presence.

Sometimes platforms stop hosting images. When that happens, a smart contract can no longer load an image and you see, for example, an error 404 or a 'broken image' icon. The artwork then still exists technically, but is no longer visible.

To prevent this, I offer a pinning service. This ensures that your files remain available and findable on the IPFS network.

I use Storacha.network for this, a reliable pinning service. The costs depend on the amount of data (number of GBs) that needs to be pinned.

This way your work remains accessible and intact in the long term.

Contact me for more information.

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System):

IPFS is a distributed file system where data is stored and retrieved based on content hashes instead of locations. Files are split, hashed and distributed across multiple nodes. Availability is not permanent: data remains as long as nodes "pin" it.

Arweave:

Arweave is a decentralized storage network focused on permanent data storage. Data is stored in a blockchain-like system (the blockweave), where miners are rewarded to preserve both new and old data.

Costs:

IPFS I can offer in the form of a subscription. For Arweave, costs are only associated with the first upload.