NODE goes bicoastal.
@nodefnd, the nonprofit that calls itself the home of the CryptoPunks, opened its new Studio in SoHo this weekend: doors on Saturday, a preview conversation between Micky Malka (@mickymalka) and Glenn Lowry, then a Punks Brunch with @gondixyz on Sunday and a public open house. @Ars0nic performed Sound of Butter live, turning an everyday substance into a fleeting composition; @justinaversano called the space a new research lab. Back in Palo Alto, make :**: out by Luke Shannon and Maya Man runs through Nov 8.
Light as information.
LIT opened Saturday at Marquee Projects in Bellport, NY, with LoVid (@lovidlovid), the duo of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, alongside Luke Murphy and Erwin Redl. LoVid shows abstract and figurative experimental videos on flat screens, Murphy's programmed light "loosens the idea of a screen," and Redl brings his orchestrated fields of light and color. LoVid call it the gallery's first all-digital show. Through Nov 15.
On Bitcoin, the craft is in the sats.
Zoe Louise (@MelzieQ) has inscribed all 36 Lucid's, with alpha sats, metadata, parent/child and high res, just as she envisioned. Halfway through she found ineligible special sats in her wallet, so she learned to split sats and reworked her UTXOs until the alphas sat at offset 0. Release details soon. Also on Bitcoin, Costo Bravo (@BravoCosto) inscribed his film negatives and built an onchain darkroom for In Development, Non Finito Chapter III. The holders presale on http://ord.net runs until Wed Oct 14 at noon ET at 0.002 BTC; anything left lists publicly at 0.0025 BTC.
An AI backlash cancels a party.
In Tokyo, Yuriten, the yuri manga and illustration exhibition series that began in 2016, called off its 10th-anniversary kickoff at Hareza Ikebukuro (Oct 17–18) after creators including Nio Nakatani (Bloom Into You) objected to AI-generated promotional art. Organizer Lilium apologized, blamed an outside contractor it failed to vet, and says it will ban generative AI from future promotion and events. Online, some are calling for a boycott anyway.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: @nullish rebuilds Jean-Pierre Luminet's 1978 black hole, calculated with punch cards on an IBM and inked by hand dot by dot, in p5.js for Event Horizon: 1,000 audiovisual pieces on block 9 sats, each seeded with one of six generative soundtracks.
And @refikanadol's Dataland (@DatalandMuseum) adds RAIN, an AI guide in its new app, after more than 50,000 visitors since opening in June.
Ahead: Frieze week in London, Oct 14–18.
On Fri Oct 16, OONA (@madebyoona) closes Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story, made from her own CCTV footage on the London Underground, with a staged wedding to David, the TfL CCTV data manager she has corresponded with for years. At Shoreditch Arts Club, presented by HERVISIONS and The Second-Guess with Art on Tezos. On objkt, XOR SPACE opens Dust and Echoes, a Niko Alerce solo, Wed Oct 14.