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Credit: Kristen Roos, SOLID-STATE, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Unit London
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Pixel Art and the Age of Technostalgia
As a new exhibition opens at Unit London, its artists discuss the aesthetics and politics of pixel art with Charlotte Kent
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Charlotte Kent
Credit: LoVid, Stream Processing (detail), 2023. Courtesy of the artists and Unit London
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Pattern Anarchy and the Promise of Old Media
Artists are engineering new modes of perception by embracing ornament, argues Corinna Kirsch
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Corinna Kirsch
Credit: H&M and Institute of Digital Fashion, Cyberwaves (detail), 2022. Courtesy of Institute of Digital Fashion
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What is the Future of Digital Fashion in Web3?
With the fashion industry increasingly embracing the phygital, leading designers share their predictions with Ashumi Sanghvi
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Ashumi Sanghvi
Credit: Samia Halaby, Simultaneous Depth, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
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Painting and the Personal Computer | Samia Halaby
The pioneering painter and digital artist explains what makes the computer the ultimate tool of abstraction
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Alex Estorick
Credit: Amir H. Fallah, CHANT, 2022. Courtesy of the artist
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On NFTs and the Digital Artists of Iran
Amir H. Fallah speaks with Shahrzad Hamzeh about the power of artists to bring light to darkness
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Shahrzad Hamzeh
Credit: Sonya Rapoport, page 4 from Anasazi Series II, 1977. Photography courtesy of Museum Associates/LACMA. Courtesy of the Estate of Sonya Rapoport
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When Art Entered the Computer Age
The curator of a groundbreaking new exhibition of computer art at LACMA speaks to Lady Cactoid
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Lady Cactoid
Credit: Charles “Chuck” Csuri, Five Faces, 1966. Courtesy of The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection
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Our Fathers | Chuck Csuri and D. P. Henry
Caroline Csuri and Elaine O’Hanrahan reflect on two pioneering generative artists with Douglas Dodds and Leslie Jones
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Douglas Dodds and Leslie Jones
Credit: OMGiDRAWEDit, The Arcade (detail), 2021. Courtesy of the artist
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On the Early Days of Hic Et Nunc
Tais Koshino and Michael Straeubig reflect on the moment when crypto art converged on Tezos
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Credit: Aaron Huey, Perimeter 004, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Elementum
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Photography After the NFT
Leading photographers discuss what is changing in Web3 with Danielle Ezzo
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Danielle Ezzo
Credit: Installation view of “LIFELIKE” at EPOCH Gallery, 2022-23. Curated by Katie Peyton Hofstadter. Courtesy of Peter Wu+
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Curating in Postreality
Jesse Damiani lays out a bold vision for art in expanding fields
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Jesse Damiani
Credit: Installation view of “DYOR” — Pepe the Frog Space at Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022. Photography by Julien Gremaud. Courtesy of Kunsthalle Zürich
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A Brief History of Rare Pepe
How a viral meme went from outcast to art museum by Martin Lukas Ostachowski
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Martin Lukas Ostachowski
Credit: Ada Ada Ada, Barriers #135, 2022. Courtesy of the artist
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Art in the Age of Co-Creation
Peter Bauman considers the place of NFTs in the history of audience participation, from Constructivism to GRAV
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Peter Bauman
Credit: Dapper Labs, CryptoKitties, 2017. Courtesy of Guile Twardowski
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The Art of the Profile Picture Portrait
Katherine Howatson-Tout considers the place of PFPs in the history of portraiture
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Katherine Howatson-Tout
Credit: Moxarra, (Still from) VIISA, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
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On Crypto Art’s Mexican Roots
NFTs continue to offer hope for a fairer society in Mexico argues Alonso Cedillo
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Alonso Cedillo
Credit: Roman Verostko, The Magic Hand of Chance — In Praise of Petrus Ramus (detail), 1982-85. Courtesy of the artist
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When the Artists Met the Algorist
After a pioneer of generative art reached out to RCS, the community jumped at the chance to talk to Roman Verostko
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Credit: Simon Denny, Guile Twardowski, and Cosmographia, Dotcom Séance at Outernet Arts, October 2022. Courtesy of the artists and Outernet arts
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NFTs and The Tech Resurrection
Simon Denny and Guile Twardowski conjure the ghosts of business past with Alex Estorick
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Simon Denny and Guile Twardowski
Credit: Simon Denny and Karamia Müller, Creation Story Cable Harness 4 (detail), 2022. Photography by Sam Hartnett. Courtesy of the artists and Michael Lett
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On Decentralized Curation
Simon Denny and Karamia Müller share their strategy for curating crypto’s entangled ecosystem with Alex Estorick
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Simon Denny and Karamia Müller
Credit: Press release for “Cybernetic Serendipity” at Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1968. Curated by Jasia Reichardt
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A Longer History of Generative Art
One of the world’s leading scholars of computer art, Nick Lambert, traces a history of generative aesthetics up to NFTs
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Nick Lambert
Credit: ZU-UK, RADIO GHOST. Shortlisted for the 3D/Interactive Award. Courtesy of the artists
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How NFTs Changed Digital Art Forever
Jason Bailey speaks with Carla Rapoport, Founder of The Lumen Prize, about the value of an NFT Award
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Jason Bailey
Credit: Iain Softley, Hackers, 1995. Courtesy Amazon
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From MP3s to NFTs
Joe Looney traces a history of digital ownership, data security, and rarity
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Joe Looney
Credit: Xin Liu, Atlas (detail), 9 January, 2022. Courtesy of the artist
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Time On The Blockchain
With block time changing history, Charlotte Kent and Alex Estorick survey the artists exploring new temporalities
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Charlotte Kent and Alex Estorick
Credit: theVERSEverse, Poem = Work of Art, 2022. Courtesy theVERSEverse
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Poetry and the New Meaning of Curation
As Web3 increasingly embraces poetry as an art form, Ana Maria Caballero proposes curation as disruption
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Ana Maria Caballero
Credit: JODI, oss.jodi.org/abuse, 1999. Courtesy of the artists
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What Can Web1 Teach Web3?
Virginia Valenzuela considers the legacy of Internet art for the NFT space
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Virginia Valenzuela
Credit: Herbert W. Franke, Untitled (detail), 1954-58. Courtesy of Phillips
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In Search of Generative Art History
Benjamin Kandler hosts Sofia Garcia, Douglas Dodds, Anna Ridler, and Georg Bak in a conversation spanning 70 years of generative art
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Benjamin Kandler
Credit: White Male Artist (AKA: Cassils), $HT Coin: After Cassils, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
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Bodies On The Blockchain
Inspired by four transmedia artists, Katie Peyton Hofstadter asks how we might take charge of our own biological data in Web3
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Katie Peyton Hofstadter
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