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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Commentary | 16/5/2024
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.
Conversations | 14/5/2024
The three artists reflect on their early engagement with art on the Bitcoin blockchain, and the recent rise of Ordinals.
Collections | 7/5/2024
An anonymous collector in St. Louis talks about their mission of proving that NFTs are a viable equity strategy.
Commentary | 3/5/2024
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.
Collections | 30/4/2024
The DAO prioritizes collecting NFTs connected to performances and political actions by women and nonbinary artists.
Conversations | 25/4/2024
The artists discuss how their performance-rooted practices dissolve the boundaries between technology and the human body.
Conversations | 23/4/2024
The Vienna-based artist and researcher talks about their ongoing work exploring molecular biopower.
Collections | 18/4/2024
Founder Seth Goldstein looks back on three years of activity as the art production DAO prepares for its final event.
Commentary | 16/4/2024
When public speaking becomes art, the digital and physical apparatus of the performance are made visible.
Conversations | 11/4/2024
The artist talks about using avatars to highlight the power dynamics and performative aspects of everyday technologies.
Conversations | 9/4/2024
The artists discuss how the performances they staged online have impacted their approach to working in public space.
Conversations | 5/4/2024
A virtual studio visit with the artist, whose work investigates the performance of identity in online spaces
Commentary | 2/4/2024
The history of digital performance shows how the obligation to maintain a personal brand online can offer space for experimentation.
Collections | 28/3/2024
Might blockchain technology offer new ways for artists working with performance to sustain their practices?
Commentary | 26/3/2024
The movement to queer and decolonize fantasy roleplaying games has found inspiration in familiar methods of vernacular game design.
Collections | 21/3/2024
What is it like to own an NFT by Lauren Lee McCarthy that requires the artist to text you "good night" every night before she goes to sleep?
News | 19/3/2024
Outland’s guest editor introduces an issue about performance artists who create relationships of intimacy and care to shore up the gaps left by technology.
Criticism | 15/3/2024
Lauren Lee McCarthy’s art takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and an equally radical politics of care.
News | 11/3/2024
The written word is distorted beyond all legibility in Robert Alice’s latest NFT collection, released to promote a book about art on the blockchain.
Commentary | 7/3/2024
Mitchell F. Chan interviews artists to understand how games have influenced their work.
Special Issue
There are as many stories of glitch as there are practitioners and individuals experiencing or working with the glitch. This issue illustrates and unpacks a few fragments of glitch art's complexities, cycles, genealogies, and turns.
Commentary | 24/10/2023
Four artists share the tools and approaches they have developed for working with glitch.
Commentary | 26/10/2023
Prompt-based image generators seem unhackable. But a committed glitch artist can still instigate interventions.
Commentary | 1/11/2023
The hacker folk art of esoteric programming languages yields insights into glitch as a practice that hijacks existing algorithms to emphasize plurality and freedom.