Collections

LACMA

A square with a digital image showing a tangle of flowers

Jonathan Perkins

An abstract digital image compriosed of misty blobs in pink, blue, yellow, and green

Centre Pompidou

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

Unsellable

A digital portrait of a sad frog wearing a blue masks that leaves his eyes and mouth exposed. He's holding a shield like Captain America's but only the top third of it is visible

1of1

A white rock dappled with rainbow-colored spots sits in a white room

Steve Pikelny

A screenshot of a virtual world, showing the interior of a church with a cross-shaped window opening onto the blue sky. The walls are hung with photographs of religious pamphlets

Kayvon Tehranian

A photograph of a forest, where the green of the trees and the brush blur in the mist

Josh Yakov

A drawing of a stick figure with his mouth wide open, surrounded by scrawled quotes that an overzealous NFT collector would say

Alan Lau

An abstract portrait of the collector Alan Lau, created from digital renderings of geometric shapes

John Charles Thomas

An intentionally handdrawn-style image of a playing card with a rocket made of Campbell's soup cans (a la Warhol) and the words Tom Sachs Rocket Factory at the bottom

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