DISTRIBUTED GALLERY
The distributed gallery is a collective of artists, craftsmen, and engineers established in the contemporary art world in 2017. They are mainly known for the creation of artworks based on distributed technologies such as blockchains.
The evolution of arts has always been coupled with the evolution of technics. Today, technologies such as peer-to-peer networks and blockchains enable artists to create artworks whose operational, aesthetic, conceptual, and political logic was previously out of reach: immutable and non-censorable data recording, large-scale money printing, content certification, creation of digital scarcity, etc...
The distributed gallery makes creative use of these technologies to experiment with a redistribution of usually separated domains: art and venture, venture and life, life and art. Thus, it aims to counteract the overinterpretation of « artistic intentions » and advocate for a more authentic approach of the artwork: here, the exhibition is nothing more but a specific and situated experience of a protocol - i.e. a set of technical, economic, and social rules overflowing the artwork as such. Our machines [and their exhibition] may have a limited life span: the protocols they open to will live forever.
The Chaos Machine, 2018