A living world inside a cloud of silt.
Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) and Feileacan McCormick, the duo behind Entangled Others (@entangledothers) and both keen divers, trained their own neural networks on footage from their dives to make Sediment Nodes (2022 to 2023), a generative video work in which murky water turns out to host algae, bacteria and small creatures that never existed. Minted on Ethereum and shown by the V&A (@V_and_A) and the Toledo Museum of Art (@ToledoMuseum), it comes to the East Slovak Gallery in Košice from Nov 9 to 30, part of EXTENDED, the gallery's platform for digital and new media art.
Three chains, one museum.
In Linz, the Francisco Carolinum (@ooeculture) is showing the collection it has built on the blockchain since 2021: more than 400 works by over 150 artists across Ethereum, Tezos and Bitcoin, from Larva Labs (@larvalabs) and Casey Reas (@REAS) to Rafaël Rozendaal (@newrafael) and LIA, curated by Julia Staudach, through Feb 7, 2027, with a twin presentation in Cryptovoxels. Among its latest additions is Beeple's (@beeple) EVERYDAYS: Late Stage Memetic Warfare, Day #6482. November brings an NFT workshop on the 13th, a catalogue launch for five years of the Digital Francisco Carolinum on the 19th and a livestreamed performance by Operator (@operator_______) on the 21st.
Tell a phone your story and watch the walls change.
On Nov 14 the Staten Island Museum (@SIMuseum) opens Anchoring Home by Stephanie Dinkins (@stephdink), an installation of video, sound and AI-generated imagery. Visitors speak into retrofitted telephones, and each voice flows through AI processes to reshape the images projected in the gallery, a generative document seeded with oral histories from the museum's collection, including the Black Angels of Sea View Hospital and residents of Sandy Ground. Dinkins was the inaugural winner of the LG Guggenheim Award (@Guggenheim) in 2023.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: a head carved for a temple of beauty.
Between 1911 and 1912 in Paris, Amedeo Modigliani cut Tête from a single block of limestone, one of a row of caryatids for a building he never made. Of his roughly 28 stone sculptures, most belong to museums, from MoMA (@MuseumModernArt) to Tate (@Tate). Never offered at auction and held in one collection for more than five decades, this one leads Phillips' (@phillipsauction) Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale in New York on Nov 17, estimated at $28 million to $35 million, the highest value sculpture Phillips has ever offered.
And a history: in April 1965, Bell Labs (@BellLabs) researchers A.
Michael Noll and Béla Julesz showed Computer Generated Pictures at the Howard Wise Gallery on West 57th Street, the earliest such show in the United States, two months after Georg Nees showed computer graphics in Stuttgart. The invitation was a small deck of IBM punch cards, visitors wore polarized glasses for the 3D works, and The New York Times (@nytimes) wrote that "the wave of the future crashes significantly at the Howard Wise Gallery." Not a single work sold.