A woman with glasses sitting in her home office looks meaningfully into her webcam
Criticism

The Hirsch Truth: Episode 6

by Ann Hirsch

In this episode of her video critique series, VH1 reality star Ann Hirsch flips through txt.art, an anthology of crypto art and poetry published by Redlion Studios in collaboration with the Crypto Writers collective. Rhyming stanzas and emo free verse become vessels for reflections on blockchain technology and the culture around it. Ann savors the results, which are by turn metaphysical, funny, and gloriously cringeworthy.

Related Stories

An abstract painting with a palette of blue, gold, violet, and white
Criticism

No Hands

Shih Yun Yeo’s abstractions are inspired by Chinese ink painting but draw on modernist experiments with randomness and contemporary generative art.

No Hands
A photograph of a display booth modeled after an airline gallery, with screens nestled among the rolling carts and cabinets showing a variety of digital animations
Criticism

Digital Drift

The curatorial collective Slime Engine stages shows both online and at shopping malls, seeing both spaces as embodying contemporary conditions of detachment and borderless flux.

Digital Drift
A small grey metal gridded square interwoven with a yellow Ethernet cable, overlaid with a plastic sheet showing an aerial view of a suburban landscape, hung on a white gallery wall
Criticism

Material Facts

Sarah Friend’s new sculptures and videos examine the presence of blockchains in the physical world, as well as the social behaviors that take shape around them.

Material Facts

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
Read more