Congratulations, Rhea! Sounds amazing! Do send out a reminder once the book actually becomes available, I didn’t see a link to pre-order it.
I’ve been watching the blockchain stuff almost exclusively from the sidelines the last year or so, but recently donated a work to this charity sale / performative action by Peng! Collective. https://www.goldennft.art/de <https://www.goldennft.art/de> The basic premise is using the financial power of the NFT market for progressive political causes; selling NFTs (some original, some algorithmically produced mash-ups) with the goal of buying a golden visa for a refugee family. I have complex feelings about it. Hope you’re well, Gretta > On 28. Oct 2021, at 04:51, Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour > <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > Proof of Work > Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021 > > Paperback > 250×190mm > 220pp > Colour illustrations > Jun 2022 > ISBN 978-1-915103-04-8 > > https://www.urbanomic.com/book/proof-of-work/ > <https://www.urbanomic.com/book/proof-of-work/> > > DAO? BTC? NFT? ETH? ART? WTF? HODL as OG crypto artist, writer, and hacker > Rhea Myers searches for faces in cryptographic hashes, follows a day in the > life of a young shibe in the year 2032, and patiently explains why all art > should be destructively uploaded to the blockchain. > > Now an acknowledged pioneer whose work has graced the auction room at > Sotheby’s, Myers embarked on her first art projects focusing on blockchain > tech in 2011, making her one of the first artists to engage in creative, > speculative and conceptual engagements with ‘the new internet’. > > This anthology brings together annotated presentations of Myers’s blockchain > artworks along with her essays, critiques, reviews, and fictions—a sustained > critical encounter between the cultures and histories of the artworld and > crypto-utopianism, technically accomplished but always generously > demystifying and often mischievous. > > Her deep understanding of the technical history and debates around blockchain > technology is complemented by a broader sense of the crypto movement and the > artistic and political sensibilities that accompanied its ascendancy. > > Remodelling the tropes of conceptual art and net.art to explore what > blockchain technology reveals about our concepts of value, culture and > currency, Myers’s work has become a required viewing for anyone interested in > the future of art, consensus, law, and collectivity. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > <mailto:NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > <https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour>
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