*Well, there are reasons.  They may not be great reasons, but they do exist. https://www.christies.com/features/10-things-to-know-about-CryptoPunks-11569-1.aspx   In 2017, Matt Hall and John Watkinson, founders of New York-based software company Larva Labs, created a software program that would generate thousands of different, strange-looking characters. At first, they thought they might have had the makings of a smartphone […]

June 10, 2021:   *Every Crypto Punk ever generated:  

*It has some “non-fungible token” markets in it, and those people will probably be happy to be noticed.   *Markets never actually come in rectangular boxes like this.  However, it can be interesting to ponder possible relationships between companies you’ve never heard of.   https://www.cbinsights.com/research/creator-economy-market-map/  

*No matter how difficult life may be as an “artmaker,” there’s always someone else who has it worse. *This meditation on “adversarial interoperability” is from Cory Doctorow’s “Pluralistic” list.   Today’s links * Prisoners’ Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation. * This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, […]

*These awards are important, validating events in the electronic art world, but these dreadful Zoom meetings can’t end soon enough.       https://ars.electronica.art/press/en/ Prix Ars Electronica The Winners of the Golden Nicas 2021 Curtains up for the winners of the Prix Ars Electronica 2021! Emiko Ogawa (Head of Prix Ars Electronica), Martin Honzik (CCO […]

*The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada.  They are to land art what Ars Electronica in Linz are the electronic art.  They’ve got the archives; they are the arbiters. https://www.nevadaart.org/conference2021/   Commemorating 50 years of Land Art, the Nevada Museum of Art convenes its triennial 2021 Art + Environment Season Land Art: Past, Present, […]

*Gives one a sense of what the 3D metaverse creatives are up to lately.     When you’re putting on an interdimensional art show you need somewhere to host your party. Places, spaces, architecture, planes of existence – where will you take us!? •Create a 3D model of an imaginative and functional interdimensional art gallery […]

https://www.playform.io/editorial/peep-o-rama   Digital artist and early adopter of Playform Carla Gannis debuts latest VR sculpture “peep-o-rama” in new exhibit from Feral File. According to the Curator’s note by Julie Walsh, “the exhibit examines, 1) the real and (un)real in digital sculpture; 2) questions about what it means to view and collect digital sculptures; and 3) […]

At Share Festival we are quite the fans of the time-honored “nettime” email list.  They help us learn what is going on in Ljubljana. Dear friends, I kindly invite you to follow the MemesteticA programme, which is running until 2 July 2021 in Ljubljana and online:   Tactics & Practice #11 MEMESTETICA 19 MAY–2 JUL […]

The pandemic has fertilized the eccentricities of the festival scene. ICYMI: Cannes XR, NewImages Festival, and Tribeca Festival will launch XR3 – a shared space for viewing XR projects from their respective festivals – at the Museum of Other Realities tomorrow, June 9. The launch coincides with the opening day of Tribeca and NewImages. The VR […]