BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY
Jonathan Chomko's Natural Static, Brian Droitcour's Generative Art Beyond the Algoritm, Sandbox Mode and Funding the Commons in Berlin and more
Hey everyone, hope this week treated you well. We’re so excited about the initial response to yesterday’s announcement, on Jonathan C’s drop with JPG, Natural Static, that launches in tandem with Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm curated by Brian D.
The exhibition will be also furthered with an IRL installation coming very soon, in NYC. No worries, I’ll always make sure you have the latest JPG news, so you won’t miss it.
Link to the announcement post.
This brings us back to July 2021, when we launched the Deep Time exhibition and Salt by Figure and 0xmons. That one did quite well, we think. And in these months of learning, we’ve been focusing on asking ourselves what we did right and what we could do better. The context-building exhibition and the drop launched together, to help people situate the work of the artists better is something we did really right, so it was only natural we’d bring it back. In the meantime, we’re still in drawing board mode, and will be hopefully testing more stuff with you.
Tomorrow I’ll be at Funding the Commons talking about funding cultural public goods. I respect the initiative and people pushing for the funding of public infrastructure, and enquiring what is public and what constitutes a public good, in the context of a public blockchain. But I’m not really sure the wider audience will ever know what a blockchain-based public good, or decentralized public good, even means. We have grown a community based on markets, and greed, and shifting mindsets is gonna be hard. Still, I’m going there to learn and to see if people are smarter than I am and that can shed some light on this. I do believe that JPG, maybe not really with that intention, built Canons as public goods - and it could be nice to eventually revive a similar experiment.
Anyways, you are not here for my armchair philosophy.
Some links to feed your curiosity:
UNICURSE: Sten has just launched a beautiful generative project with highlight - minting now.
I wrote about Residency programs for Forbes: featuring Adidas, Vertical Residency and Wild
If in Austin, I’ll be speaking on Sept 12 here (free friendly and wholesome) and at the Permissionless conference (awesome panel, not free conference, not sure the conference is wholesome).
After Austin, on September 16th, in San Francisco Marty Grasser and Simon Denny will be in conversation for Simon’s opening of his new show Read, Write, Own, at Altman Siegel Gallery.
For this exhibition, Simon’s combining his metaverse landscapes paintings with sculptures made out of whiteboards/room dividers that used to belong to Twitter.inc and got auctioned by Elon Musk. You really can’t miss it.
It’s been a while since I’ve been in SF - so if you’re reading this and you are around and I did not DM you because i forgot, come by! Looking forward to catching up, and the panel will be fantastic.
Next week I’m planning something special - going a bit off script from the Newsletter, and will have a Jan Robert Leegte Special, as a treat.
Hope to see you around the world!