Last week, in Doha, I met an old friend of mine for coffee. We used to talk about exhibitions, artists, who was doing something genuinely interesting and who was just loud. This time, though, the conversation drifted somewhere else almost immediately. NFTs. He is/was a serious NFT collector. Not someone who flipped cartoons for a
Simon Fox, chief executive of the publishing and art fair group Frieze, has a confession. “I would have been a magician, had I not come last in a competition when I was 18,” he says over Zoom from Buckinghamshire. It is tempting to suggest that joining an events-based business at the start of the Covid-19
If we do have to time spend substantial time in the metaverse, at least let Matt Pyke of the digital art collective Universal Everything design it. Or perhaps more accurately, be its benign, divine creative force, its bringer of life. For almost two decades, Pyke has been experimenting with generative design, birthing moving digital creatures.
Purgatory Edit by Ali Akbar Mehta, Digital Intimacies, Late at Tate Britain, Curated by Hervisions. Courtesy Dan Weill and Hervisions In an era of incessant image production and reproduction, how does cultural relevance emerge? Who dares sift through presently developing tendencies to spotlight artists whose work is lightyears ahead of the curve, contextualizing it alongside
Installation view of Meandering River at Funkhaus, Berlin, 2018. From Right Click Save’s review of Ashley Lee Wong’s book Ecologies of Artistic Practice: Rethinking Cultural Economies through Art and Technology, published by MIT Press. Courtesy of onformative.com and Right Click Save Digital art moves at the velocity of the internet, making it challenging to keep
With a focus entirely on commercialism, NFTs are the most boring form of digital art being developed, writes Phineas Harper. Last month, a collaborative online art project created on Reddit took the internet by storm. The vast interactive artwork, called Place, allowed anyone to lay coloured tiles on its enormous canvas one pixel at a time.
With a focus entirely on commercialism, NFTs are the most boring form of digital art being developed, writes Phineas Harper. Last month, a collaborative online art project created on Reddit took the internet by storm. The vast interactive artwork, called Place, allowed anyone to lay coloured tiles on its enormous canvas one pixel at a time.
With a focus entirely on commercialism, NFTs are the most boring form of digital art being developed, writes Phineas Harper. Last month, a collaborative online art project created on Reddit took the internet by storm. The vast interactive artwork, called Place, allowed anyone to lay coloured tiles on its enormous canvas one pixel at a time.
With a focus entirely on commercialism, NFTs are the most boring form of digital art being developed, writes Phineas Harper. Last month, a collaborative online art project created on Reddit took the internet by storm. The vast interactive artwork, called Place, allowed anyone to lay coloured tiles on its enormous canvas one pixel at a time.
With a focus entirely on commercialism, NFTs are the most boring form of digital art being developed, writes Phineas Harper. Last month, a collaborative online art project created on Reddit took the internet by storm. The vast interactive artwork, called Place, allowed anyone to lay coloured tiles on its enormous canvas one pixel at a time.