Code becomes thread.
Art Blocks (@artblocks_io) will bring Emily Xie's (@emilyxxie) Tensile Forms to Art Basel Miami Beach (@ArtBasel), Dec 2 to 6. An algorithm generates biomorphic forms; Xie collages computational textures and colors before translating them into embroidery. Large works are sewn by hand, smaller ones by machine. This morning the fair put Zero 10's second Miami edition in focus: Generation brings together 19 projects from 21 galleries and platforms.
A city that reads the chain.
Adam Weitsman (@AdamWeitsman) has acquired Dave Krugman's (@dave_krugman) CITY for $150,000, according to yesterday's sale report. Built with Transient Labs (@TransientLabs), the WINDOWS // NYC centerpiece is a dynamic 1/1 whose lights and relationships follow its onchain social graph. The acquisition also includes a large physical commission containing all 1,000 WINDOWS. Krugman says the related BUILDINGS mint closes in a week, on Nov 12.
Ahead in Shanghai: an ocean made from forecasts.
TANK Shanghai hosts a digital and AI art dialogue on Nov 12 alongside Terra Nova. Refik Anadol's (@refikanadol) Pacific Ocean B turns five years of Pacific wind-field forecast data into an immersive 4K AI painting. Pierre Huyghe's Camata has AI direct cameras and robotic arms around skeletal remains in the Atacama Desert, a film generated in real time. The exhibition runs through Jan 24.
Three AI agents go out to take photographs.
In Cezar Mocan's (@DrawingMoving) Arcadia Inc., agents walk a rendered pastoral and upload their pictures live. It joins Soft Signals at the Institut français in Cluj-Napoca (@InstitutFrancez), opening Nov 12 and on view Nov 13 to 22. Mélanie Courtinat's Indulto follows a torero toward a bull, then turns away when the fight begins. The six-artist show works with the gestures and pauses that become data, through simulation, sound and light.
What survives when a digital work changes format?
Yesterday's Verse (@verse_works) Talks brings Giannis Sourdis (@Greekdx) and Güerita Art (@GueritaArt) into a discussion of computer-art pioneers, artists' estates and collectors' responsibilities. Charles Csuri's (@CharlesCsuri) Ordo prompts the central question: where does preservation end and a change of medium begin? The 91-minute episode also takes up AI, scarcity, digital originals and physical prints.