A digital drawing of a cellular shape in green, red, blue, and orange sits on an orange background. The word "3FACE" sits on top in green.

Criticism and conversations about art, technology, and NFTs

Commentary

A portrait of a woman with long hair and closed eyes, composed of amny dense lines of white, cyan, pink, red, and black

Commentary

A digital rendering of a three-tiered birthday cake, frosted red and green and circled with candles

Jehan Chu

A pixelated drawing of a red flower on a black background, with Andy Warhol's signature digitally scrawled in the upper right corner

Timur Si-Qin

A pair of hats, one blue and one gray, with the words New Peace embroidered in the same color as the fabric

Commentary

A poster for a conference about NFTs, with a geometric design in purple on black meeting green plant life where the letters NFT are spelled

Bear Market Diaries

Dina Chang

Domenico Quaranta

A book cover with grayscale figures of horseback warriors and a coin against red and pink fields

Commentary

DIS

A black-and-white drawing of an ornate mausoleum on a red background with the words "DEATH CLOCK" below.

A variety of pop-ups with confrontational messages that include "We're all racist," "This was a setup," and "I am begging you," appear on the homepage of the Whitney Museum of Art website.

Ryan Kuo & Zach Gage

How does ownership operate? How do numbers represent meaning?

Two artists who use digital tools to design evocative interactions discuss metrics, value, and other concepts they both explore in their work.

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Herbert W. Franke & Casey Reas

An intergenerational conversation about art and computation between two leading figures in the field.

John Provencher & Travess Smalley

Two artists discuss the role of chance in their creative process, and how they have applied generative systems to genres and formats where they aren’t commonly used.

When working with chance, the hardest part is learning when to let go.

Critical Perspectives

Commentary

Bake Sale

When artists enter the NFT market from the world of museums and galleries, they often pledge big chunks of their proceeds to charity. Why?

Commentary

In Search of a Common Language

Participants at an NFT conference in Kassel had trouble communicating across disciplinary borders.

Criticism

True Religion

To sell spirituality as a lifestyle brand, Timur Si-Qin draws on wellness culture, crypto, and other ways to find meaning when old values fall short.

The Hirsch Truth

Ann Hirsch, a pioneer of social media art and the grandmother of selfie feminism, shares her critical takes on NFTs

What Outland has done so far, and where things are headed The First Hundred Days

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