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A New Alchemy

An artist reflects on Bitcoin's status as digital gold and a substrate for her work.

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Morrow Collective

The UAE-based curatorial collective discuss their latest project, which looks back at ten years of art and the blockchain

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Where did NFTs Come From?

Revisiting the earliest blockchain art projects helps explain the connection between contemporaneous developments in finance, aesthetics, and technology.

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Keeping Time

What can a pair of artworks made using clocks teach artists working with blockchains today?  

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Age of Anxiety

Held concurrently with Art Basel, the Digital Art Mile fair provoked conversations about the art world’s anxiety toward new media.

A trading card with a Pepe meme. The text beneath the drawing reads "Great riches await, in the world of shitcoins," and assigns the card a rareness score of 10

What the Frog Tells Us

As the popularity of Ordinals rises, it’s worth looking back to Rare Pepes as an earlier example of art on Bitcoin that valued community over price.

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Critique it yourself

César Escudero Andaluz has crafted a DIY media art aesthetic to help audiences develop critical perspectives on web3 technologies and their underpinning ideologies of financialization.

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Breaking Protocol

The Ordinals protocol allows art to be inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain—but it’s also an artwork in itself.

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Bitcoin Graffiti

Messages and ASCII art inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain highlight the human impulse to leave a lasting mark—and to adapt technology for creative purposes.

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Dressing for Venice

Fashion signals social affiliation at the Venice Biennale preview week for curators and NFT collectors alike, but Christoph Büchel’s project at Fondazione Prada dresses everyone down.

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UnicornDAO

The DAO prioritizes collecting NFTs connected to performances and political actions by women and nonbinary artists.

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Mary Maggic

The Vienna-based artist and researcher talks about their ongoing work exploring molecular biopower.

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Bright Moments

Founder Seth Goldstein looks back on three years of activity as the art production DAO prepares for its final event.

Performing Lectures

When public speaking becomes art, the digital and physical apparatus of the performance are made visible.

Sarah Rothberg

The artist talks about using avatars to highlight the power dynamics and performative aspects of everyday technologies.



Mitchell F. Chan Presents

How Art Games Work

Games offer artists the chance to work with agency as a medium, opening up space to reflect on how contemporary technological and economic structures manipulate people's actions through incentives and penalties.

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