Criticism

The Hirsch Truth: Episode 8

by Ann Hirsch

In her latest video, Ann Hirsch—the Scott Rogowsky of NFTs—takes on a curated NFT exhibition: “Web 3.0 Aesthetics: In the Future Post-Hype of the NFTs,” organized by Annka Kultys Gallery for LaCollection. Ann talks about digital pieces by Marjan Moghaddam and Stine Deja that reflect the uncanny manipulation of bodies both on and offline, as well as videos by Ziyang Wu, Jeremy Bailey, and Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley that explore the possible futures suggested by the digital present. These visions are mired in fear, but full of hope. 

Related Stories

A sketchy portrait of a grey-haired and bearded man in a green shirt and tight brown pants, against a lurid purple-brown-green-pink-blue wallpaper backdrop
Criticism

The Prophecies of AARON

In 1973, Harold Cohen created a computer program that could paint and draw. Where does his invention fit in current debates about AI and art?

The Prophecies of AARON
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
Criticism

Show Your Work

Jonathan Chomko’s deceptively simple art highlights the absurdity of submitting to technology’s control.

Show Your Work

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