Primavera De Filippi is an artist, legal scholar and researcher focused on the legal challenges raised by decentralized technologies.

A protocol artist, in my very narrow definition, is one that builds the creative endeavor on the design of a protocol, the design of a system. But then once the protocol has been created, that system can be instantiated by not just me.
Primavera De Filippi, Strange Rules: Protocol Art at the Venice Biennale
People can submit proposals about how they envision to create the next Plantoid. And then everyone that holds an NFT, so everyone that has collected the digital seed of the Plantoid, can influence its evolutionary dynamics, so can vote on the proposition that they like the most.
Primavera De Filippi, Strange Rules: Protocol Art at the Venice Biennale