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
Where did NFTs Come From?
Revisiting the earliest blockchain art projects helps explain the connection between contemporaneous developments in finance, aesthetics, and technology.
Keeping Time
What can a pair of artworks made using clocks teach artists working with blockchains today?
Age of Anxiety
Held concurrently with Art Basel, the Digital Art Mile fair provoked conversations about the art world’s anxiety toward new media.
Rare Scrilla & Pepenardo
Two artists talk about the Fake Rares community, how it maintains and updates the legacy of Rare Pepes, and the future of art on Bitcoin
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.
Wassim Alsindi & Max Haiven
Two philosophers discuss the time regimens and class politics of the blockchain, and how these concepts can help us understand art on Bitcoin.
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.
Breaking Protocol
The Ordinals protocol allows art to be inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain—but it’s also an artwork in itself.
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.
Rhea Myers & Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
The three artists reflect on their early engagement with art on the Bitcoin blockchain, and the recent rise of Ordinals.
Fabric Media Collection
An anonymous collector in St. Louis talks about their mission of proving that NFTs are a viable equity strategy.
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.
UnicornDAO
The DAO prioritizes collecting NFTs connected to performances and political actions by women and nonbinary artists.
Sougwen Chung & Operator
The artists discuss how their performance-rooted practices dissolve the boundaries between technology and the human body.
Mary Maggic
The Vienna-based artist and researcher talks about their ongoing work exploring molecular biopower.
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.
Games in the Expanded Field
What exactly is a game? For Sarah Friend, leaving this question unanswered may yield more insights than a clear set of criteria
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley & R.I.P. Germain
The two artists discuss their use of gameplay as a strategy to make the viewer engage with the difficult questions raised by their work.
Financialized Play on the Blockchain
More and more, video games look like capitalism simulators and digital financial products look like games. Can art offer an alternative?