Faith Based Control

WORLDING | WHAT IS A WORLD?

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Infinite Images

Larry Cove

RETURN IT

This selection presents some of the different ways that Web3 technology is currently used by artists—technologically, conceptually, aesthetically, socially, and politically. It gives a more comprehensive view of the influence of the blockchain and related tech on artists, one which goes beyond the simple prioritization of aesthetics, which has arguably become the ascendent feature of this nascent art ecosystem, often at the expense of other more innovative qualities.
 
Although sometimes feeling like a constrained focus on a single technology, this selection shows that utilizing the blockchain can engender multifarious new outcomes for artists and their audiences. The artists selected here are some of the most adept at making use of these technologies and their surrounding cultures, while together they signal some crucial ways that the tech will continue to be used by artists.

Concept, Tech, Aesthetic, Community

Varied experiments in working with fresh technologies.

No Adventure Land

Dance I

Horizon

Hold Me

∞III

'Awakening' by Wes Viz feat. The Anix

{Specimen no. 5, Coelopidium leucopterus}

“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.”
Okorafor, Who Fears Death.

I am paying tribute to women and queer influencers, pioneers of sci-fi literature such as Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Leguin, and more recently Nnedi Okorafor and N. K. Jemisin. This Curator’s Choice is inspired by people who think outside the normative boxes of our world and explore the potential for societal changes through science fiction(s). Indeed, sci-fis is a genre that not only allows us to think of alternative worlds, other bodies, and different embodiments, it also is a means to address and criticize current political frameworks and socio-political contexts.

There’s a playfulness here in terms of perceiving Science Fiction as something uncanny, something we might find familiar and unknown at the same time.

In the Arms of the NFT Dragon

There’s a playfulness in perceiving Science Fiction as uncanny.

Larry Dunks

Air Larry

Takeshi Murata

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