Sedition is the original platform for digital art, founded in 2011. Sedition is a platform for and community of artists who work across a range of different media, but most especially produce work that can be viewed and presented in digital format. Sedition offers an opportunity for every artist to sell and present their work digitally to a diverse and unlimited global audience of collectors and art lovers, without having to exclusively sign up with any one site, company, platform, or organization. The artworks on Sedition are purely digital; they are not physical in nature. They are designed for screens and devices and can be accessed online through the Internet. 

When you join Sedition, you’re joining a community of other artists and like-minded individuals around the world. The range of artists on Sedition spans from well-established household names, such as Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Yoko Ono, and Bill Viola, to emerging and brand-new names just starting out, whom you may never have heard of. The point of Sedition is that the entire landscape of contemporary art exists for our collectors and artists to dive in and explore.

Large, established audience: Access a community of ~500,000–1,000,000 collectors built over the last 10 years: active art lovers, gallery/museum visitors, and new collectors.

Global visibility + peer community: Your work is seen worldwide, and you’re part of a network of fellow artists and creators.

Artist non-exclusivity: You don’t need to be exclusive to Sedition. We encourage you to be on multiple platforms to build your profile.

Artwork exclusivity: Individual artworks listed on Sedition must be exclusive to Sedition to avoid price/format conflicts. (You can sell different artworks elsewhere.)

Multiple revenue streams: Set up once and unlock several income channels designed to monetize both new work and your back catalogue.

Long-tail earnings: These streams can continue generating revenue over time, supporting you while you focus on creating new work.

1. Artwork and edition sales: You earn based on a 50/50 split between Sedition and the artist (after costs).

2. Subscription revenue: Sedition shares 20% of subscription revenue with the artists. Artists are awarded proportionally based on how much their work has been viewed.

3. Commissions: Sedition always individually negotiates commissions between the client and the artist.

4. NFTs: Sedition has introduced an option for artworks released on the platform to be minted as NFTs. While artworks on Sedition are not sold directly as NFTs, they are offered with an option for collectors to mint their purchased editions as NFTs. Beyond the initial edition sales, you, as an artist, will earn 50% of the proceeds from secondary NFT trades.

Sedition has two parts: a Curated platform and an Open platform.

The Curated platform is the site’s default view and features invited artists only, including names like Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Yoko Ono, and Bill Viola. It is not open for everyone to join; placement is by invitation.

The Open platform is the larger section and is open to anyone worldwide. With just an email, creators can sign up, publish work, and start building a profile, audience, and revenue. It’s accessible to artists at any stage.

Open platform also serves as a pathway to Curated. The Sedition team actively reviews Open platform and invites artists based on factors such as audience growth, sales, and curatorial interest.

There are several ways to become a curated artist on Sedition. Artists often contact us directly with their work and interest; our curatorial team reviews submissions and replies promptly. We also invite artists proactively when we discover work we admire at exhibitions, museum shows, and other presentations. There isn’t a single formal pathway; our process is flexible and driven by curatorial judgment. We’re approachable and active in the art community, and we continuously scout for artists to invite.

Becoming an Open Platform artist is not restricted. Anyone can join - you, your art class, friends, colleagues, parents, siblings. Sign up here.

From there, follow the on-screen instructions to create your profile, upload your work, and start presenting and selling it to our audience.

For still images, we support JPEG or PNG. One side must be at least 3000 pixels.

For videos we support MOV, MPEG or MP4 as well 3GP, ASF, AVI, DV, FLV, MKV, MXF, OGG, RM, VOB, WEBM. We also accept most codecs with our preferred codec being H.264. Please avoid using Apple Intermediate, ProRes 4444 (ProRes 422 Supported), HDV 720p60, Go2Meeting3 (G2M3), Go2Meeting4 (G2M4), ER AAC LD (Error Resiliant, Low-Delay variant of AAC) and REDCODE. The resolution needs to be 1920x1080 or higher. 

Since Sedition offers public displays, we ask that the artwork files submitted to us are in the best resolution possible. Most artworks on Sedition are now in 4K. There’s no upper limit on how large the artwork file you upload can be, however, files larger than several gigabytes will take a while to upload and process. 

Short answer: it’s up to you.

Most works on Sedition run five minutes or less; the longest is about an hour, but that’s uncommon. Audiences tend to prefer shorter pieces, though popularity and quality matter more than duration. GIFs are also supported.

General recommendation: 2–3 minutes.

As a guide, moving-image works are often 30 seconds to under 5 minutes, with many successful exceptions.

In addition to your work, you will also need to upload your picture as well as your digital signature. 

For the signature, it needs to be either in JPG or PNG. We will use your signature to issue certificates of authenticity to buyers of your works. 

Your profile image needs to be in JPG or PNG format, be maximum 5 mb and at least 400x400 pixels.

Within about a month after the close of each quarter, Sedition provides artists with a quarterly statement that breaks down website sales and subscription revenues. If there were no sales during that quarter, you won't receive a statement.

In addition to quarterly reports, Sedition provides an annual statement for public display revenue. If your artworks weren't showcased in any public displays over the previous year, you won't get this annual statement. Commission rates are determined on a case-by-case basis and are paid separately.

Payments are automatically routed to your designated bank account using our automated payment system. Do note that payouts are not made until the end of the respective quarter (or year) and after you've received your quarterly (or annual) statement.

You don't need to provide an invoice. Thanks to our automated payment system, payments are dispatched quarterly without requiring an invoice.

Your payments are handled either through Stripe or Wise, based on your country of residence, and are deposited into the bank account you've registered with us.

To set up automated payments:

• Log into your artist account.


• Update your address by selecting your country here
  


• After updating, navigate to the "Payout methods" tab and follow the prompts to onboard either Stripe or Wise.

If you're VAT registered, your invoices and statements will reflect that. If you're not VAT registered, they won't.

Based on your country of residence, Sedition directs artist payouts through either Stripe or Wise. Regardless of the chosen payment processor, funds will be transferred to the bank account you've designated for automated payments.

Sedition follows widely adopted copyright principles. We sell digital artworks and subscriptions, and we offer Public Display Licenses to organizations. Copyright remains with the artist; it is not sold or transferred with the artwork unless you explicitly assign it.

By listing on Sedition, you grant Sedition exclusive monetization rights for your work on our platform (while it remains on Sedition).

In short: you keep the copyright; Sedition holds exclusive monetization rights on-platform, and licensees receive only defined usage rights.

If you have created this work yourself, then you do have the rights to the work. 

However, if you are using other people’s imagery, film, music, soundtracks or anything else in your work that was not created by you, then you do need to make sure that you have the full rights before the work lands on Sedition. 

No, not for any commercial or fiscal purpose.

Collectors are not allowed to reproduce your work unless you authorize it.

Sedition offers maintained apps for Muse Frame, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, and LG Smart TV. AirPlay and Google Chromecast are supported as casting functionality. An Android TV APK is available and can be installed on compatible Android TV devices. This setup lets collectors easily display and enjoy works across the screens they already use.

The original file you provide Sedition is put onto our server, and then anyone who’s streaming that artwork will be requesting a stream of that work from the server. Note that they’re requesting a stream and not a file itself, which stays on Sedition’s server.

In the case of public displays, once the artworks are protected as per the legal agreement, Sedition may provide the files to display partners. However, Sedition thoroughly protects these, and our legal team guarantees the safety of the files. Sedition further monitors all of our agreements and ensures proper adherence to the contract and the terms and conditions from all of our display partners.

Yes, please share your work on your website and on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Vimeo, and include a link back to its Sedition page.

While the work is listed on Sedition, don’t sell it elsewhere (you grant us exclusive monetization rights), so avoid paid downloads, outside edition sales, or separate minting.

You’re welcome to enter competitions, festivals, and exhibitions; if organizers need an ongoing or public display beyond the event, they should obtain a Public Display License from Sedition. When participating, don’t grant third parties sales, distribution, or minting rights, and please link to the Sedition listing.

After your initial term, you can end your participation with Sedition. For any unsold works, you may stop selling remaining editions, and we’ll cease licensing, subscription, and other monetization for those pieces. You’re free to showcase the work that best reflects your current practice.

Sold works cannot be removed. Ownership rests with collectors, so previously purchased editions remain accessible to them. Accordingly, the artist profile and relevant artwork pages must stay on the site as a resource for those collectors.

Suggestion: many artists choose to keep earlier works visible for context and continuity, but the choice is yours.

You can replace or update a work on Sedition, but if any editions have been sold, the original version and its artwork page must remain for collectors. You may stop future sales and, if you wish, offer an upgraded or remastered version to existing collectors. Previously sold editions cannot be altered or removed, and their records must stay available to the purchasers.

Artists can be on as many platforms as they like, but individual artworks listed on Sedition must be exclusive to Sedition while they’re listed. You cannot sell the same work, or parallel editions, on other platforms, as it undermines trust in limited editions. This does not restrict lawful secondary-market resales by collectors (e.g., via OpenSea if the edition was minted).

If you’re a curated artist, you can contact your artist liaison directly.

For both open and curated, you can use the email support@seditionart.com

In either case, we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.