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.
“Blockchain Aesthetics” in “Perfect and Priceless” at Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich until 11th January 2019. Image courtesy of curator Georg Bak.
The print on the left is forty inches square, and the screen on the right is being driven by a Raspberry Pi 3. In the gallery they are hanging next to John Watkinson’s awesome CryptoPunks prints, so they are in good company.
Here is some media coverage:
https://www.krypto-magazin.de/perfect-priceless-wertesysteme-auf-der-blockchain/
https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/10/26/is-art-blockchains-killer-app
https://medium.com/@cultbytes/perfect-priceless-value-systems-on-the-blockchain-45ee2b3ba36f
https://www.artlog.net/de/kunstbulletin-12-2018/perfect-priceless
https://thecreativecrypto.com/perfect-priceless-exhibition-at-the-kate-vass-galerie/
Contrary to what you might read, I’m still based in Vancouver, not New York.
“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.
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.
Rob Myers, one of the early adopters of blockchain as an artistic tool, has written: “The ideology and technology of the blockchain and the materials of art history—especially the history of conceptual art—can provide useful resources for mutual experiment and technique.”…
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/artists-as-cryptofinanciers-welcome-to-the-blockchain
https://soundcloud.com/artontheblockchain/episode-20-a-conversation-wrob-myers
Just before Gray Area I was interviewed by the awesome Cynthia Gayton & J Scrilla for the “Art On The Blockchain” podcast.
AOTB has been a big influence on me, my understanding of “rare art” and how tokenization relates to music production both come from the show. So I was a little nervous but Gayton & Scrilla immediately put me at my ease and we had a great conversation.
You can subscribe to Art On The Blockchain through your favourite podcast medium, and I highly recommend doing so.
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:
And a news article about it.
https://www.ethnews.com/proof-of-work-exhibit-to-visualize-blockchain-technology
Two new sets of visualizations to complement the Bitcoin ones: Dogecoin and Ethereum.
You can get them via git, or view them on the Show section of this site.
On 6th December 2017 I spoke about the “Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain” book at DCTRL in Vancouver. I was up after the Cryptokitties team, so there was no pressure… I’m grateful to the audience for their insightful questions and discussion, unfortunately the event wasn’t recorded.
Here are the slides for the talk, I’ll be expanding on their themes here soon:
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