Category: Shows

Shows

Crypto Manifold

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2020-09-18

2020.6.27 – 2020.10.25

Chronus Art Center (CAC)
BLDG.18, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai

“crypto_manifold presents artists’ multifaceted exploration and affective investigation of the panoptic application of blockchain technology.”

Featuring !Mediengruppe Bitnik, CHEN Baoyang, Simon Denny, Grayson Earle, Sarah Friend, Marija Bozinovska Jones, Paul Kolling & Max Hampshire & Paul Seidler, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Lina Theodorou & Rob Myers

Details here:

http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/cac-exhibition-crypto_manifold/

Curators Bi Xin and Cao Jiamin have done a wonderful job of creating an installation of Lina’s awesome illustrations for Bad Shibe, with the story readable on a tablet as part of it.

They also got Lina and I to make short video statements explaining how we approached writing and illustrating the story, which was fun.

The show is open in Shanghai until October.

Galerie Default

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2019-07-05

I created a building in CryptoVoxels using one of their default build templates and filled it with a show of Tokens Equal Text:

https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/2000

I’ve named it Galerie Default after how it was made. You can take a look in your web browser via the link above (and if you have a fancy VR headset you’ll soon be able to wander around it immersively). There are much more advanced uses of the CryptoVoxels system to show NFT art within it, but this was a fun experiment.

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Crypto Valley 2019: Blockchain Aesthetics

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2019-07-05

“Blockchain Aesthetics” was in a selection of art being shown by the awesome Kate Vass Galerie at Crypto Valley 2019 in Zug, Switzerland.

Here’s a quick video from the gallery:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzG7CFWjhyr/

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RARE AF 2

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2019-05-07

The second Rare Art Festival is coming to Bushwick Generator in Brooklyn, NY on 18th May 2019.

“Tokens Equal Text” will be among the art on display (and sale!).

More information and tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rare-art-festival-tickets-60307156328

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Hacking Creative Composition at CADAF

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2019-04-21

I’ve a couple of pieces at CADAF in New York with Kate Vass Gallerie (above is one of the giclées, “Local Maxima: SFLT2, Square” (2019)):

https://cadaf.art/artist-rob-myers

Creative Crypto have a profile of me ahead of the event, from which I’ve stolen the title of this post:

https://thecreativecrypto.com/rob-myers-hacking-creative-composition/

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“Blockchain Aesthetics” at Ó̵̞͠O̸̮͠ͅP̷͔̊͝S̵̡̱̑.̵̻̯̏͘.̶̜́͛.̷͔̑ : Obfuscating Ownership: Privacy & Sousveillance

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2018-12-21

OOPS Exhibition, Curated by Julian Stadon
December 10th-11th 2018 at University of Hertfordshire Art & Design Building
Opening Event Monday 10 December 16:00 – 18:00

This exhibition showcases a wide range of artists that specifically address the issue of personal data protection, privacy and identity obfuscation. This includes building new identities, hiding existing ones, remediating personal data to developing legal precedents for intellectual property.

Artists:

Tiare Ribeaux & Donald Hanson, Heather Dewey Hagborg, Erik Zepka, Heath Bunting, Pierre Proske, Varvara and Mar, Julian Stadon, Branger_Briz, Rob Myers, Mez Breeze

https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhbow/whats-on/2018-autumn-and-winter/oops-exhibition

Images courtesy of Julian Standon.

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Perfect and Priceless

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2018-11-11

“Blockchain Aesthetics” is in the awesome show “Perfect and Priceless” curated by digital art expert Georg Bak at Kate Vass Galerie in Zürich, Switzerland from 16th November 2018 – 11th January 2019.

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CryptoPuppers at #BlockchainLive18

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2018-10-02

https://twitter.com/IsDecal/status/1044900069693108229

CryptoPuppers (2018), blockchain-registered gold plated metal cast from 3D printed model, inkjet prints.

This new incarnation of Rob Myers’ classic work “Balloon Dog, Shareable Readymade”, originally commissioned by Furtherfield, comprises an edition of 1000 miniature gold balloon dog sculptures linked to the blockchain. Each handmade version of the 3D printed original is unique in its own way and functions as a non-fungible token.

“Balloon Dog” was originally created as an ephemeral digital file for 3D printing that anyone could use to re-democratise an icon of blue chip contemporary art. It was a post-scarcity commons approach to art that everyone and therefore no-one can own.

In contrast, this is a limited edition of luxurious physical instantiations of the artwork (each with its own own “certificate of inauthenticity” signed by the artist) anchored to the art historical world of provenance and ownership as well as blockchain verifiable value via Arteïa’s collection management system.

From post-scarcity abundance to artificial scarcity and provably rare digital ownership as a way to establish and protect the unique value of artworks. This is a provocation for artists and collectors to engage with new digital critical and financial value in contemporary artworks.

More details from DECAL.

Massive thanks to Dr. Charlotte Frost and Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield for making this happen.

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Proof of Work at Schinkel Pavilion

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2018-09-06

My piece “Secret Artwork (Subject)”, 2018 is in the group show “Proof of Work” curated by Simon Denny in dialogue with Distributed Gallery, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Hamerman and Sam Hart, Kei Kreutler, Aude Launay and Anna-Lisa Scherfoseat.

“Proof of Work” is at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin from 8th September to 21st December 2018.

Show website:

https://www.schinkelpavillon.de/exhibition/curated-by-simon-denny-in-dialogue-with-distributed-gallery-harm-van-den-dorpel-sarah-hamerman-and-sam-hart-kei-kreutler-and-aude-launay/

And a news article about it.

https://www.ethnews.com/proof-of-work-exhibit-to-visualize-blockchain-technology

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Gray Area and SchellingFlags

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2018-09-03

I was invited to show something at the 2018 Gray Area Festival, a great Art & Technology event in San Francisco. This year it was on from July 26-29, 2018. I took the opportunity to make something new.

The result was SchellingFlags.

SchellingFlags is the meme of “…but on the blockchain” applied to flags, with a touch of Art & Language and Komar & Melamid. You can find out more about it on the project page. The version shown is from during development, so the last two flags haven’t been voted for and thereby defined yet.

Massive thanks to Gray Area for putting on an awesome event and making my work part of it!