Criticism

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

DYOR

History in your hands

Christopher Kulendran Thomas

A grainy image of a woman sitting at a table, gesticulating as if she is explaining something

Matt Kane

An abstract digital image comprising a red orb with purple, pink, and pale blue circles within it

Helena Sarin

A digital image of an orb covered with white squares and curvesthat look somewhat damp, with red and black planes in the crevices beneath them

Art Gobblers

A simple green, yellow, blue, and pink drawing of a face with big eyes and thick pink lips, and a few skinny limbs emerging from the chin

Leo Villareal

A digital image of golden rods and blue spheres emanating from a central point

Auriea Harvey

A 3d model of a sculpted head from which extrudes a mass of clay-like substance, with a lit candle at the center

Jonathan Monaghan

A digital image of a horse covered with Uber logos reclining on a beach at dawn beside a Peloton bike

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