BEST BEFORE has a new home.
Lemonhaze (@Ordinals10K) and Ordinally (@veryordinally) relaunched http://bestbefore.gallery for their 420 living generative works inscribed on Bitcoin, each with a lifespan that starts when the collector activates it and is counted in blocks. The revamp adds a live ledger of every work (96 open, 276 sealed, 46 expired, 2 immortal at the last snapshot), the diary behind the project, the process, and a plan for an exhibition built around a public unsealing and a final block. What if art could expire?
Code leaves the screen for Frieze week.
Harvey Rayner (@harvey_rayner) opens Painting with Code tonight at Gallery Renaissance in Tottenham: untokenized cotton-rag prints from Algorithmic Synesthesia, the generative series he showed with Art Blocks at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier this year, plus a three-screen look at how the systems run. The pop-up is aimed at collectors who never touch a wallet. Opening 6–8 pm.
The Turbine Hall becomes an orchestra.
Today Tate Modern unveils Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui: Hold, free through April 11. Custom wind instruments, Korean drums, Uzbek karnai, 3D-printed horns in sugar resin and bamboo dust, and textiles that feed a synthesiser as they move with the hall's air. Microphones and Atoui's software fold the room's own noise back into the piece. Live sessions start Fri–Sat Oct 16–17.
Motifs that remember home.
On Ethereum, magicburp (@magicburp) sets Motif (@TheMotifArt) to mint Mon Oct 20 at 0.03 ETH: up to 2,048 pieces drawn and animated by the contract from marks and timing kept on-chain, with roots in Anatolian kilim and çini patterns. First Chair, then The Ensemble, then public; mint window closes Oct 22 at 17:00 UTC. Ensemble applications seal Oct 18.
Arcade ghosts walk the Gion Matsuri.
Kill Screen reports Takakurakazuki's Ghost Gion Matsuri, a bird's-eye pixel panorama of Kyoto with PAC-MAN ghosts in the festival streets, for IP-ART EXHIBITION: PAC-MAN at BnA Alter Museum. Planned with Bandai Namco's IP-ART program. Oct 17–Dec 13; every work for sale. Also showing: Ayaka Nishihara, WEI-NI LU, Riku Matsuzaki and others.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: Pale Kirill (Kirill Semenovich) builds AI video as prayer-worlds, from The Old Man to Safe Haven, 23 video essays on Verse.
And Coldie (@Coldie) has the mold-ruined Filthy Fiat one-dollar bills PMG-graded and slabbed — each note a 1/1 of water, dirt and time — after burying a box in fire country in 2020.
Ahead in London: Ryoji Ikeda's DATA-COSM [n°1] returns to 180 Studios Oct 14–Dec 20, a ceiling LED you take in lying down.
At Frieze London itself (Oct 14–18), Theo Triantafyllidis's Feral Metaverse (Spider), the Artist Award with Forma and Google Arts & Culture, is a climbable sculpture wired to his multiplayer game.