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A view of a virtual world, with three stand-alone columns serving as portals to social areas. They stand around a blue pool opposite red trees

Simon Denny / terra0

A potted plant sits on a table in an exhibition booth; grids shaded with colorful gradients hang on the black walls

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

LaTurbo Avedon / Skawennati

A view of a virtual community space, with a white glowing tree in a plaza surrounded by gracefully curving buildings under a blue sky

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

V&A

A tangle of curved lines in pale blue on an off-white background

News

Essays produced in a writing workshop hosted by Outland and Art Blocks offer new perspectives on art, code, and web3. The Generative Art Issue

A softly blurred and glowing digital image evoking braided threads, folding over each other in swirling patterns