conceptual art

Centre Pompidou

A lime green square with a photo of a middle aged man wearing wireless glasses and a collared shirt and jacket

Rhea Myers

Text reading "This contract is art." The text is black but the word "is" is maroon

Simon Denny

Steve Pikelny

A digital image that looks like a banknote, with guilloche patterns, borders, a denomination of 1, and a serial number, but is too abstract and empty to fully resemble an actual bill.

Rhea Myers

A schematic drawing of the blockchain with a label indicating that art happens on it

Commentary

What used to be a photo of a woman, distorted beyond recognition

Yatreda

A black-and-white photograph shows a glamorous Black woman decked out in golden jewels and a crown

Blake Finucane

Digital image of a bronze woman rising from a pool in a temple

Lans King / One of the Many Matts

A digital drawing of a bearded man in a hoodie squatting beside a stone statue

Exonemo

A 3D digital model of a brightly colored dog, facing the viewer with its tongue out, against a black and white background

Guest editor Simon Denny explores how ideas about ownership are structuring digital space, and how software metaphors are shaping real-world social relations. To the Metaverse and Beyond

A square canvas painted black and showing a bird's eye map view of a plot of land on Decentraland