Blockchain & NFTs
I first became interested in blockchain when reading Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Glen Weyl and Eric Posner, subsequently attending the first RadicalXChange conference in Detroit where I discovered artworks by Dada, Simon de la Rouviere, Primavera de Fillipi and others. I continued to read and attend gatherings, but it wasn’t until 2021 that I had the opportunity to write about the creative potential of the web3 space. To separate blockchain art from other forms of (digital) art is problematic but here follows some writings and talks that center blockchain, NFTs, and artists engaged with that technology.
2024 “Auriea Harvey” in On NFT! edited by Ben Gentilli. Taschen Books.
2024 “Time on the Blockchain,” in Right Click Save: The New Digital Art Community, edited by Alex Estorick. Vetro Editions, p. 259-269.
2022
“In Light of Abstraction: Leo Villareal.” Catalog essay for Marfa Invitational exhibition. May 5-8, ArtBlocks, Marfa, TX.
“The New Me: Rosie Gibbons” DAATA Art ChicagoExpo, April.
“Digital Combines,” Honor Fraser Gallery. January 22-March 5.
2021 “Blockchain Manifestos: Fighting for the Imagination of a Culture,” Burlington Contemporary. November.
2021“Blockchain’s Conceptual Landscape,” Proof of Art at the Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria. Exhibition curated by Jesse Damiani, June 10-September 15.
2024 “In Token Supremacy, Zachary Small Presents a Sensationalized Version of the NFT Boom,” Art News. June 13.
2023
“Coin of the Realm.” Artifacts by Ana Maria Caballeros and Alex Estorick. Emprops. 26 September.
“The Crypto Bubble Burst. What Will Happen to the NFT Artworld?” Art Review, 20 January 2023.
“Art Needs Curators—and so do NFTs,” Fast Company, January 10.
2022
“Chasing Provenance,” Huge Moves. Inaugural Issue. December.
“Not for Nothing: A New Perspective from Peer to Peer,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January.
“Painting, Protest and the Plural Potential of Web3." The Brooklyn Rail, November.
“Data/Body: Corpus and the Cloud Empire of our Lives,” The Brooklyn Rail, September.
“Interview with Anna Ridler,” Zora. September 1.
“Time After Blockchain,” Right Click Save. September 1.
“Embodied Broadcast: Slipstream Times Square” ArtLab. August 22.
“Environmental Management: John Gerrard,” Outland. August 18.
“Beyond the Janus-Faced Typologies of Art and Technology,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August.
“Brendan Dawes and the Art of Lost Time: An Interview,” Right Click Save, June 17.
“NFTs Can Be Artistically Groundbreaking—Meet the Artists and Curators Leading The Way,” ArtNews, June 10.
“Epoch Gallery and Blockchain’s New Ecology” Right Click Save, May 30.
“Harm Reduction” Outland, May 18.
“The Life and Times of an NFT: Interview with Luna Ikuta,” Right Click Save, May 3.
“Technelegy by Sasha Stiles,” Brooklyn Rail, May.
“Business of Art: FARE Contract,” Artists Magazine, May/June, 87-8.
“NFTs Aren’t Just for Crypto Bros: Meet the Artists Resisting the Hype — Auriea Harvey” Art Review, April 13.
“In Search of an Aesthetics of Smart Contracts,” Right Click Save, March 28.
“Entangled and Interdependent: An Interview with Nancy Baker Cahill,” BOMB, March 24.
“Can You Be an NFT Artist and an Environmentalist?” Wired, Feb 17, 2022.
“Layers of Light: Leo Villareal” Outland. February 9.
“Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty: Unveiling DAOs for Creative Practices” CLOT. January 20.
2021
“A Marriage in Creativity,” Artists Magazine, November/December, 12-14.
“Pieces of Me,” Burlington Contemporary, August.
“How Artists Are Seizing the NFT Moment to Transform the Debate About Tech and the Environment,” ArtNet, August 12.
“How Women Artists Have Been Marginalized in the Blockchain Discourse,” Hyperallergic, June 13.
“The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real,” Brooklyn Rail, June.
“The Virtual and the Tangible: an Interview with Auriea Harvey” BOMB, May 24.
“Digital Art Galleries Leading the Conversation in Blockchain Art,” CLOT, April 26.
“Blockchain Art and a History of Artists Rights,” ArtNet, April 5.
“Year Zero: Auriea Harvey,” The Brooklyn Rail, April.
“John Gerrard, Blockchain and the Environment,” CLOT, March 24.
“Talking about Art and Blockchain,” CLOT, March 22.
2020 “The Game of Life,” Brooklyn Rail, September.
2024 “FemG3N: Expanding the Art World with New Digital Art Practices.” Victoria and Albert Museum, London. October 12. 2-3.30pm GMT.
2023
Moderator for “Conceptual Art and Synthetic Photography in the Age of AI” with Kevin Absoch, Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler. Paris Photo. November 9, 6pm CET.
Moderator for “Creativity Unleashed: Harnessing the Power of Art & Tech for Lasting Impact” with Carolyn Roylston and Alfredo Salazar-Caro. Qatar America Institute for Culture, Impart Summit. Washington D.C. October 14, 6-7.30pm EST.
“The Material Culture of Blockchain.” Bard Graduate Center, SightLines. October 4, 6pm EST.
“Tracing Provenance, Copyright and Environmental Practices with Blockchain.” Bard Graduate Center, Lunch Time Talks. October 3, 12pm EST.
Livestream Host for DMINTI launch of Ricci Albenda’s Universal Color Clock. 4pm with Matt Kane; 5pm with Nancy Baker Cahill; 6pm with Mitchell Chan. April 29.
“The Misuse of Technology” NXT Museum Twitter Spaces, April 17, 2pm EST.
“Technology as Ecology: Jesse Damiani, Charlotte Kent, Nancy Baker Cahill, Mark Dorf, Entangled Others (Sophia Crespo and Feileacan, and Pinar Yoldas” Nxt Museum Twitter Spaces, April 3, 2pm EST.
“The State of Art Activism in Web3 with Charlotte Kent.” WAC Weekly for We Are Museums Seminar 2023-2024. January 11. 5pm UTC.
2022
Host for “Metaverse Mondays with Tina Rivers Ryan” DMINTI. December 20. 7pm
Host for “Metaverse Mondays with Fanny Lakoubay” DMINTI. December 15. 7pm.
“In Conversation with Nancy Spector, Aaron Huey, and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. December 2. 1pm EST.
“In Conversation with Sarah Friend and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. November 4. 1pm EST.
Moderator for “Art for Earth’s Sake: Art on Screens and its Energy Impact IRL with Nancy Baker Cahill and Glenn Kaino.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. October 22. 5-6.30pm PST.
“In Conversation with Shezad Dawoud and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. October 7. 1pm EST.
“In Conversation with Ian Cheng and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. September 2. 12pm EST.
DXM POD 33 - Host Colborn Bell (Museum of Crypto Art) talks w/ Charlotte Kent. September 28. Link.
“Metaverse Mondays with Charlotte Kent” DMINTI. August 15. 7pm.
“Blockchain and the Future of Arts Journalism with Jason Bailey, Charlotte Kent, Reza Jafery” DAATA Twitter Spaces, May 30, 3pm EST.
Moderator for “Appreciation a Framed NFT Artwork,” Horasis Global Meeting, May 19, 7.30am EDT.
“Generative Art is Having a Moment,” RightClickSave Twitter Spaces, April 14, 1pm EDT.
California Institute of the Arts, Center for Integrated Media, Art and Technology MFA. Guest Speaker for “Research and Practice” on “Time and Blockchain.” March 14, 9-11pm EST.
Moderator for “The Arts: Now as a Token of its Deconstruction” Horasis Global Meeting: United States, March 4, 2022, 3.30pm EST.
Moderator for “Bodies and Masks as NFTs: where art, blockchain, and capitalism collide, Featuring Dread Scott, Brendan Fernandes and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, Brooklyn Rail. February 24. 1pm EST.
Moderator for “Smart Contracts Aren’t, and other legal issues in blockchain and art, Featuring Erika R. Knierim, Sarah C. Odenkirk, and Charlotte Kent.” New Social Environment, Brooklyn Rail. January 13. 1pm EST.
2021
Korean Arts Management Association: Art Market Going Online: Changes, Changes, Challenges. “Artists Reflecting Blockchain’s Landscape” December 17. Video: 2:21:28 -2:36:12
The Art Show with Daniel Browning. “NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an 'unwilling inspiration’ November 24, 2021. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/nft-jonathan-zabawa-bruno-booth-taloi-havini/13644458
Gallery Climate Coalition, “NFTs: The Environmental Cost with Louisa Buck, John Gerrard, She Li, Devang Thakkar, and Charlotte Kent” June 30, 12pm.
The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, “Future Payment Systems for Video Enabled by Blockchain” June 29, 10am.
Moderator for “Curating in the Blockchain Landscape, Featuring Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, Anika Meier, and Kelani Nichole” New Social Environment, Brooklyn Rail. June 7. 1pm EST.
Moderator for “Art on the Blockchain: Debates on NFTs & Crypto Art, Featuring Ry David Bradley, Claudia Hart, Steven Sacks, and Anne Bracegirdle.” New Social Environment, Brooklyn Rail. March 16. 1pm EST.