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Crypto Histories
Credit: JODI, oss.jodi.org/abuse, 1999. Courtesy of the artists
Crypto Histories
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
Interviews
Crypto Histories
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
Crypto Histories
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
Credit: Nancy Baker Cahill, Mushroom Cloud/Proximities, Los Angeles, CA, 2022. Courtesy of the artist
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Crypto Histories
PROOF OF POWER
Nancy Baker Cahill makes the case for a more ethical Web3, in search of augmented reality
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Nancy Baker Cahill
Credit: Paolo Cirio, Printed Matter, NYC, May 2022. Courtesy of the artist
Interviews
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Crypto Histories
Web3 and the New Social Contract
Alex Estorick hosts Paolo Cirio and Max Haiven in conversation about the prospects and perils of blockchain technology
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Alex Estorick
Credit: Deborah Tchoudjinoff, Baigala II, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
The City of Gold and the Art of New Futures
As new worlds emerge in the metaverse, Deborah Tchoudjinoff imagines a sustainable supercontinent
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Deborah Tchoudjinoff
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Crypto Histories
NFTs and the Risk of Perpetual Colonialism
Luke Hespanhol asks whether Web3 can really avoid the oppressions of Web2
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Luke Hespanhol
Credit: Ted Chin, An Unexpected Guest (detail), 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
NFTs and the Revenge of Surrealism
Isabella Wilkinson puts crypto art’s surreal fetish in context
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Isabella Wilkinson
Credit: Tyler Hobbs, Fidenza #553 (detail), 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
On the Artist and Long-Form Generative Art
Michael Assis on the curious case of Royal Fidenza and what it says about the evolution of the artist
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Michael Assis
Credit: William Mapan, Untitled (detail), 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Generative Art and the Decentralization of Creativity
Peter Bauman detects an emerging paradigm of communal art practice
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Peter Bauman
Credit: Hogan, “Untraditional NFT Collection,” 2022. Courtesy of Exclusible
Interviews
Crypto Histories
NFTs and the Future of Metaverse Fashion
Following the success of Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week, RCS showcases a new generation of designers offering more than the emperor’s new clothes
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RCS
Credit: Primavera De Filippi, Plantoid Garden, 2018. Courtesy of the artist
Interviews
Crypto Histories
Community
NFTs and the Law of the Blockchain
Primavera De Filippi, Kevin McCoy, and Rhea Myers discuss the importance of smart contracts to the new creator economy
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Lucy Rose Sollitt
Credit: Anna Carreras, “Trossets” #893, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
In Search of an Aesthetics of Smart Contracts
Charlotte Kent asks whether art can still imagine new futures without automating the past
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Charlotte Kent
Credit: Larva Labs, Autoglyph #16 (detail), 2019. Courtesy of the artists
Crypto Histories
The Aesthetic Measure of an NFT
Georg Bak traces a brief history of NFTs back to the conceptual and computer art of the 1960s
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Georg Bak
Credit: Carlos Marcial, (Still from) The Dialectical Possibilities of 金継ぎ, 2020. Courtesy of the artist
Interviews
Crypto Histories
How NFTs Changed the Art World
RCS hosts Carlos Marcial and Richard Entrup, two pioneers from different corners of the NFT community
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Carlos Marcial and Richard Entrup
Credit: Vadim Epstein, (Still from) Saga, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Crypto Histories
Community
CLIP Art and The New Aesthetics of AI
As creative AI evolves, Luba Elliott asks whether NFTs can unlock its potential as a tool for artists
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Luba Elliott
Credit: Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez, Entretiempos #2 (detail), “reveal” version, 2022
Crypto Histories
The Generative Art of Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez
The artist reveals the influences and inspirations behind his groundbreaking new work
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Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez
Credit: Lawrence Lek, Nepenthe Valley, 2022, Courtesy of the artist, SO-FAR and AORA
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Crypto Histories
Ulysses in the Metaverse
Curator Stina Gustafsson and artist aurèce vettier explore Cryptovoxels in search of a more tangible future
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Stina Gustafsson and aurèce vettier
Credit: Anousha Payne, Surahonne (Flowering Jacket), 2021
Crypto Histories
The Hawala History of the NFT
As the art world responds to the new trustless economy, Megha Ralapati shares the lessons of centuries of decentralization
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Megha Ralapati
Credit: Zancan, Lushtemples — Ars Ex Naturae Ex, 2021
Crypto Histories
On the New Evolution of Generative Art
A.V. Marraccini discusses the work of Michaël Zancan and Matt DesLauriers, two emerging stars of a generative renaissance
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A.V. Marraccini
Credit: artplusbrad, Ode to GM, 2021
Crypto Histories
Keeping Up With Crypto Lingo
Zsofi Valyi-Nagy on the importance of avoiding more artspeak
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Zsofi Valyi-Nagy
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