Libby Heaney & Sarah Shin
How can the empirical fields of science and technology be reimagined to reflect a more mysterious reality? Might quantum physics offer a useful framework?
Outland is a new platform dedicated to fostering critical conversations around emerging digital technologies and their connections to contemporary art.
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Fork Your Society, I want Out
Silicon Valley thought leader Balaji Srinivasan has proposed a revolutionary new form of statecraft, but it’s limited by metaphors of software development.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Digital garments have been heralded as a revolution for sustainability in the fashion industry. But are they mainly just a cash grab for big-name brands?
Sea Change
The art project Forkonomy() proposes a decentralized ownership model for the contested space of the South China Sea.
David Henry Nobody Jr.
A virtual studio visit with the self-described "reality hacker," who recounts his journey from underground performance art to NFTs
The Marketplace of Ideas
With startups and foundations exhibiting alongside galleries, Art Dubai Digital proposes another model for the art fair, and myriad possibilities for digital art’s place in culture.
Five Views of the Metaverse
What is the metaverse and where is it headed? Five artists and builders share their perspectives.
Land of the Free Market
Zaha Hadid Architects is building a libertarian metaverse whose vision of the future looks remarkably similar to our current reality.
Simon Denny & terra0
How do smart contracts enable nonhuman entities to govern themselves? Can the law accommodate the systems that blockchains make possible?
The Church of Subway Jesus Pamphlets
Steve Pikleny built a church in the metaverse Voxels to showcase his collection of real-world religious ephemera.
Taxation without Representation
Simon de la Rouviere adapted an experimental property tax model to design a new royalty scheme. What might be lost in translation?
To the Metaverse and Beyond
Guest editor Simon Denny is spearheading an exploration of virtual land and new concepts of owenrship.
Skawennati & LaTurbo Avedon
Two artists who make work in Second Life exchange ideas on the meaning of identity in virtual communities, and the prospects for widespread immersion in the metaverse.
Landscape Format
Simon Denny’s paintings of virtual property continue his long-term project of giving physical shape to often formless phenomena.
Kayvon Tehranian
The founder of Foundation discusses the web3 marketplace's new curation tool, the values of decentralization, and his own approach to collecting.
Josh Yakov
The former chef went down the crypto rabbit hole during the pandemic and became an expert in generative art.
Scam Artist
Is crypto a scam? Is art a scam? Steve Pikelny’s winking answer to both questions is yes, and his work explores what happens when the art and the crypto are one and the same.
Alan Lau
The Hong Kong-based collector has long been interested in the relationship between art and technology. Now he’s all in on web3.
Conceptualism Rehashed
Rhea Myers’s puckish and profound works adapt strategies of conceptual art to take blockchain technologies—and the rhetoric surrounding them—to their logical extremes.
John Charles Thomas
The art lawyer outlines some of the legal issues raised by NFTs—and shares highlights from his own collection.
Guest Editor
Simon Denny
How is the configuration of technologies, ideologies, and practices in the metaverse adapting—or displacing—existing concepts of land, ownership, and statehood? How much of our social life and the systems that govern it will be virtual, and how will they intersect with embodied experience?
Simon Denny & terra0
How do smart contracts enable nonhuman entities to govern themselves? Can the law accommodate the systems that blockchains make possible?
Land of the Free Market
Zaha Hadid Architects is building a libertarian metaverse whose vision of the future looks remarkably similar to our current reality.
Taxation without Representation
Simon de la Rouviere adapted an experimental property tax model to design a new royalty scheme. What might be lost in translation?