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Kalie Granier in collaboration with Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, The Nature Conservancy, and MBARI-Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, A’ai, 2023. Courtesy of the artist
Interviews
Crypto Histories
On Indigenous Wisdom and Technoshamanism
An artist, a tribal chairwoman, and a media theorist on how art can support land reclamation and language revitalization
by
Kalie Granier
Credit: Iskra Velitchkova, ISG 04 | Asphalt / Weight, 2026. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
In Emergent Fields | Iskra Velitchkova
The artist distills her generative vision through a sublime world of shadows, writes Alex Estorick
by
Alex Estorick
Simone C Niquille, duckrabbit.tv, 2023. Photography by Silke Briel. transmediale 2023
Crypto Histories
Life with Assets | NPCs as Infrastructure
The curator Nora O’ Murchú on how contemporary artists mobilize non-player characters to unsettle logics of power
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Nora O’ Murchú
Detail of visual by Ruby Bailey for Non-Playable Characters. © 2025 LAN Party and the authors. © 2025 Ruby Bailey for all visuals and layout
Crypto Histories
Don’t Play Me | The Untouchable NPC
The theorist Alex Quicho on the evolution of discourse around non-player characters and personal agency
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Alex Quicho
Non-Playable Characters is edited by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop). © 2025 LAN Party and the authors. © 2025 Ruby Bailey for all visuals and layout
Crypto Histories
The Secret Life of an NPC: A Ghost Story
The curatorial duo LAN Party introduce the first of a series of essays from Non-Playable Characters (2025)
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LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop)
Credit: Tim Kent, Swimming Hole (detail), 2017. Courtesy of the artist
Interviews
Crypto Histories
In Between the Art Worlds
The editors of Right Click Save survey the view from the bridge between digital and contemporary art with Julianna Vezzetti
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Julianna Vezzetti
(Detail from) Grid of 50 Genesis Period works by Botto. Courtesy of BottoDAO
Crypto Histories
In Search of Aesthetic Consensus | Botto
The decentralized autonomous artist’s Genesis Period helps to establish what art is in a world saturated with digital images
by
Alex Estorick
Installation view of “NFT: Poetics of the Immaterial, from Certificates to Blockchain” at Centre Pompidou, 2023, with works by (from left) Claude Closky, Rafaël Rozendaal, and Larva Labs. © Centre Pompidou MNAM-CCI, Hélène Mauri
Interviews
Crypto Histories
THE CANONS OF DIGITAL ART
Leading museum curators explain how they narrate art history to one of the world’s leading artists
by
Alex Estorick
Credit: Installation view of Heft Gallery at Paris Photo 2025 with work (right): Ganbrood, The Second Gaze (2025). Courtesy of Heft Gallery
News
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How AI Alters Art History
Ganbrood discusses his encounter with Steve McCurry, whose work he reinterpreted with generative AI, at Paris Photo
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Ganbrood
Credit: Evil Biscuit, Drifella III #151, 2025. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Notes from the Avant NFT Underground
A core member of the community traces a history of the grassroots movement mining subculture to the limit
by
GardenParty85
Credit: Abraham, mist, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Interviews
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News
Agents of Eden | Gene Kogan and Xander Steenbrugge
The creators of Abraham share the origin story of the autonomous AI artist with Seth Goldstein
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Seth Goldstein
Credit: Mario Klingemann, Mutation Series 6 | Mutation 1/14, 2014. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
The Latent Image
The early works of Mario Klingemann mark a tectonic shift from hand coding to machine learning, writes Alex Estorick
by
Alex Estorick
Credit: Hackatao, GLITCH THE PAINTBOX, 2025. Courtesy of the artists
Interviews
Crypto Histories
The Power of The Paintbox
Leading artists discuss the legacy of the Quantel Paintbox for digital art and pop culture
by
Georg Bak and Alex Estorick
Credit: Installation view of Environnement Chromointerférent, Paris (1974/2018) by Carlos-Cruz-Diez at “Electric Dreams”, Tate Modern, 2024. © Carlos Cruz-Diez / Bridgeman Images, Paris 2024. Photo © Tate (Lucy Green)
Interviews
Crypto Histories
On Electric Dreams
Bronac Ferran reflects on Tate Modern’s groundbreaking show of art by pre-internet pioneers with curator Val Ravaglia
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Bronac Ferran
Credit: Installation view of Meandering River at Funkhaus, Berlin, 2018. Courtesy of onformative.com
Interviews
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Expert Analysis
Art After Artists
A new book by Ashley Lee Wong offers a fresh perspective on art’s evolving ecologies and economies
by
Alex Estorick
Credit: Diego Trujillo, Blind Camera #32, 2022. Courtesy of Fellowship
Crypto Histories
AI | ALTERNATIVE INTENTIONS
Leading artists and thinkers raise the stakes in the great AI debate
by
Alex Estorick
Credit: Pepe Coin (PEPE), 2023
Crypto Histories
News
The Meaning of Memecoins
Mannay finds real cultural value in a world full of shitcoins
by
Mannay
Credit: Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019. Courtesy of Sotheby’s
Crypto Histories
The Artist as Comedian
The recent acquisition of a banana duct-taped to a wall demonstrates the shared values of conceptual art and crypto, argues Mitchell F. Chan
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Mitchell F. Chan
Credit: Michael J. Masucci, (Still from) Standing Waves, 1980-82. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Interviews
EZTV and LA’s Digital Underground
Michael J. Masucci charts a history of radical inclusivity in California with Dina Chang
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Dina Chang
Credit: Installation view of “Patterns of Flow” at NEORT++, Tokyo, 2024. Courtesy of NEORT
Crypto Histories
Patterns of Flow | Revisiting Hiroshi Kawano
Hasaqui Yamanobe looks back at a pioneer of computer art and surveys the new generation of Japanese digital artists
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Hasaqui Yamanobe
Credit: Shunsuke Takawo, Flows of Pattern, 2024. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Art on the Move | Jasia Reichardt
The iconic curator of Cybernetic Serendipity discusses the legacy of the Japanese avant-garde for generative and AI art
by
Jasia Reichardt
Credit: Sarah Meyohas, Bitchcoin (detail), 2015-21. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Interviews
The Art of Money
A new show at the Ashmolean Museum considers the place of digital art in the history of currency
by
RCS
Credit: John Maeda, Morisawa 2 (detail), 1996/2024. Courtesy of Gazelli Art House
Crypto Histories
Interviews
The Metamagic of Mathematics
A pioneering generation of artists discusses the creative power of computation with Bronac Ferran
by
Bronac Ferran
Credit: Still from What the Punk!, courtesy of Darjeeling Prod.
Interviews
Crypto Histories
What the Punk!
Jason Bailey speaks with the team behind the new CryptoPunks documentary
by
Jason Bailey
Credit: Vuk Ćosić, ASCII Unreal, 1998. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Interviews
On net.art, postinternet, and CryptoArt
Vuk Ćosić, Marisa Olson, Auriea Harvey, and Jason Bailey discuss the changing language of digital art with Alex Estorick
by
Alex Estorick
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