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When Code Blooms explores how flowers have evolved from enduring artistic motifs into generative systems shaped by mathematics, code, datasets and artificial intelligence.
Four years after the publication of Ben Davis’s Art in the After-Culture, this article revisits the book’s central questions through the lens of today’s art world. It explores authorship, curation, institutional critique, platform labour, AI art, and climate contradictions to ask how meaning and value are produced in culture now.
In this conversation with chrisroc, we discuss how value gets made in on-chain art, what preservation actually means in a decentralized world, and why the future of digital culture may depend on holding a line between increasingly centralized AI and the open infrastructure of the blockchain.
In this interview, Mdiac reflects on vertical collecting, his deep engagement with XCOPY, and the broader cultural, market, and infrastructural shifts shaping how on-chain art is collected, interpreted, and valued today.
In this conversation, #1 crush reflects on digital mythology, systems of belief, image circulation, internet memory, and the evolving relationship between identity and online culture.
In this new interview, Kate Vass speaks with BatSoupYum about collecting as cultural memory, the importance of supporting emerging artists, and the question of legacy in cryptoart. For him, collecting is a long-term commitment to the artists, ideas, and movements defining this era of digital art.
We sat down with Raoul for a conversation which began with macro and ended somewhere deeper: with taste, preservation, cultural memory, and the artworks that define an age. Thoughtful, sharp, and unexpectedly personal, this interview moves between finance and internet culture, between systems and symbols, between what holds value and what gives it meaning
Our article examines the rise of the longevity mindset: health as optimization in service of radical life extension and the consequences for power, capital, infrastructure, mental endurance, and culture.
As part of our ongoing project Collecting Art On-Chain - an initiative dedicated to documenting and preserving blockchain-native culture through conversations with early collectors, I sat down with aka thefunnyguys, an early generative art collector and the co-founder of Le Random and Raster.
39 collectors. 137 artists. One decade of shared history.
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Laura Rautjoki is featured in Envato’s new series, where she reflects on her Dataset2024 project, working in the Finnish landscape, and how motherhood has reshaped her creative rhythm.
We were proud to take part in ETHDenver 2026, contributing to the Art at ETHDenver exhibition. An article reflecting on the show and its place within the Web3 ecosystem was later published in NFT Magazine, written by Olena Yara.
After the Algorithm was a ten-day festival in Zurich bringing together artists, researchers, and builders. Alexander Mordvintsev participated with Substrates of (A)Life, a projection-based installation.
Between 17 and 21 February 2026, we participated in ETHDenver, presenting a selection from Collecting Art Onchain. Rather than treating on-chain work as a stylistic category, the presentation focused on the conditions through which these works were created, collected, and sustained.
Anteism presents a new publication by Botto, the decentralized autonomous artist. Genesis: #000–051 documents Botto’s formative first year and its fifty-two canonical works.
Observer’s review of Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 examines the newly launched Zero 10 digital section and references ideas from Kate Vass’s essay The Future Has No Walls.
We are happy to present Advent Collaboration, a digital advent calendar led by Jenni Pasanen, featuring twenty-four one-of-one artworks created with twenty-five artists throughout December.
In this conversation published by the DIFFRACTIONS collective, Rhea Myers traces her journey from net art to protocol art, discussing the beliefs, tensions, and contradictions shaping her work.
As part of our ongoing project Collecting Art On-Chain - an initiative dedicated to documenting and preserving blockchain-native culture through conversations with early collectors, I sat down with aka thefunnyguys, an early generative art collector and the co-founder of Le Random and Raster.