Friends, I'm looking for a Fuji GFX medium format digital camera to do some macro photography with over the next month for an art project. If you have a camera body or know someone who does I'd love to work out a trade or deal to borrow it for a bit. DMs are open =)

Wild seeing Garden Monoliths #0 plotted and in person at Bitforms last night.

Meeting both Eve Sussman and Kate Micucci at Spring/Break made for a fun, weird fair day

Taking a break from social media this month meant I really got into the NYT crossword

“Everybody has an opinion about art and most of it is ignorance.” - Dan Flavin Looking at Web3, I wonder what Flavin would make of betting on art and what names will succeed (in the longrun) based largely on highly opinionated data.

The BUSY plots by James Merrill look incredible in person. They’re like tiny, complex cityscapes nested as tightly as Rube Goldberg machines. Shout out to @jamesmerrill.bsky.social @artblocks.bsky.social @bantamtools.bsky.social

Great conversation tonight in Berkeley between @alissawilkinson.bsky.social & @leekravetz.bsky.social at Mrs Dalloways Bookstore Please pick up a copy of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES this first week. It makes a huge deal on whether bookstores will continue to stock it going forward 🤞

I’ll be up in Summerland, CA today for Alissa’s reading at Godmother’s book store if anyone wants to drop by

Glamour was alive and well in the Strand rare books room last night for @alissawilkinson.bsky.social’s reading with @rachsyme.bsky.social

Super excited for this event tomorrow in The Strand’s rare books room Only a few tickets left 👇

Alissa’s new book WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES on Joan Didion and hollywood’s influence on politics and culture comes out today. The NY Review of Books called it “Thoughtful, perceptive…searching, conscientious.” Come to the reading tonight at 6:30pm at the B&N on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn.

My wife (@alissawilkinson)’s, new book WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: JOAN DIDION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE comes out next week 🥳 We’re doing some reading events in New York, Boston, DC, and California. As well as an online event next Wednesday. I hope we’ll see you at one of the readings 🫶

It’s been a great year for innovative small films with bold voices to break through. Excited to see what wins tonight. Here’s my annual Oscar ballot for 2025. Let’s see how close I get. Who wants to put up odds? 🍿🎬

Scribble Together #385 owned by @gorillasun.bsky.social, featuring palette by @haiverart.bsky.social, July 2024

Today I’m presenting my first paper at a national arts conference (CAA). Titled Presence & Praxis: The Future of Online Art Exhibitions, it’ll try to ask vital questions for how art institutions can move their digital presence from knowledge centric to experience driven.

The ENO documentary streams today for 24 hours with six different versions, special guests, Eno DJ sets, and I'm sure some fun surprises. Starts at noon today. I've seen this movie four times already in a theater. It's kind of amazing that I want to come back for more. https://anamorph.vhx.tv/

One of the best things about the holidays when your inbox gets quiet: in the last two weeks I read six books (three physical and three on audio). Magical things happen when you wake up every morning and spend time digging deep into one of your curiosities.

Happy new year y’all 🥂

Great way to close out 2024 🍕

Stopped by the Brooklyn College MFA studios. This is a bodmod cyberpunk installation by Dino Romano.

Saw this really cool new media residency in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Applications are due by January 20th. Would encourage everyone to apply. We need to keep expanding generative art’s reach into the art world by showing up for opportunities like this.

Re-upping this as it’s my favorite thing I wrote this year:

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.” – Carl Jung

1/ It's awesome to see prints from @halecar2.bsky.social's series CARPOOLERS on view today at Art Miami. Show the work you have conviction in. Quite a few have sold, but private sales still available through Vertu Fine Art. They asked me to write a little about why I find the project so compelling:

At Thanksgiving I’m on cocktail duty. This year I made a bell pepper infused vodka, and to that I added Nixta corn liqueur, Method dry vermouth, and a pastille chile liqueur called Alma Tepec. It’s got strong vegetal vibes with a small bite of spice. Going to call it Fresh Cut.

Standing outside Sotheby’s this week bringing new meaning to: “There’s always money in the banana stand.”

Amazing work by Trame in Marfa this week 🔥 What other companies are working at this high of a level when it comes to physicals? It’s a very short list.

Was reminded last night that a lot of my friends don't know that I also code my own generative art. I'm more than just a curator! My favorite long form project I made, LACE FACTORY, came out last year, and there's only one piece listed on secondary. What a great feeling.

Is this a pig, boar, warthog, or something else? Because it just tried to follow me to my Airbnb in Marfa 😬

Electric Op at the Buffalo AKG is a masterfully curated show with incredibly smart juxtapositions. The range of screen-based works and optical effects on display is truly mind boggling. Bravo Tina!

You know you’ve come to the right town when there’s a museum outpost in the airport

1/ Last week I went to six art fairs and two openings. Over the week I saw every booth, thousands of pieces of art. There were even a handful of works on screens. But the only generative art I saw was on one wall of the Taschen booth to celebrate their book On NFTs.

Obsessed with this output I saw from Juhani Halkomäki’s Resting Place for Wild Pigeons Still minting on Alba 🩸 www.alba.art/projects/res...

A few new mints came in for EVANESCENIA by Leonardo Solaas over the weekend. I love the way he talks about this not being a representational picture of a flower, but the hazy recollection of something lost, a memory if you will🫀

The exhibition page for my fifth show on Alba is now up 🥳 1,200 words on flow fields, and how artists can/should layer techniques together so it doesn't look like "another Fidenza knockoff." Does the argument resonate with you? www.alba.art/galleries/da...

Thank you to Electric Word Power for sending me a mint ticket for TRAJECTORIES on fx(hash). Best parameters to play with were definitely dashed lines, recursion, and n. www.fxhash.xyz/generative/s...

What's the coolest physical object you've seen IRL in your life? The highlight of my trip to London last month was seeing Harold Cohen's original painting robot — that he built himself from parts back in the 1970s — in a private tour behind the vault door at the Gazelli gallery.

Had a great time at Station3 last night listening to this amazing panel discuss digital art: past, present, and future. Bitchcoin forever 🔥

Dialed into the BEEF-E PAYPHONE by @deafbeef.bsky.social with my prompt. "The last shall be first, and the first last. And the degens shall buy art, and the artists shall degen." Let it be written ;) Here's my proof-of-receipt:

It's been a hot minute since I minted on fx(hash). Really love this Losing My Marbles - Edition #849 from BleakerArt.

Verdict is in. Got 19 out of 23 right. The trick is to look at all of the guild awards, and never vote with your heart. And I'm happy about every answer I got wrong, especially Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron 🥳

My first career was working in film production on studio movies and TV shows in New York. Somewhere out there is an IMDB page with all of the credits from this past life I love cinema — and this was an incredible year for movies — so here's my Oscar ballot. What's the over/under on how close I get?

Hello from the Vera Molnár show at the Pompidou 🥰 Thank you to Sarah Ridgley for taking this delightful photo.

Three founders walk into a bar… (Jamie x Verse // Susannah x Tonic // Haiver x Alba)

What's the difference between digital art and a screensaver? And is there a better metaphor we could be using? I recorded a little ASMR version of the exhibition statement I wrote for After Dark: Around the Fire with some visuals from the show to help us unwind—enjoy! 🥳 youtu.be/cvOj7Mlb9tM?...

Reminder that anyone who collects a piece from each of the five projects in the After Dark: Around the Fire group show will receive a digital show poster to celebrate their patronage, and commitment to emerging artists. Snapshot on Fri, Feb 9th 📸 Exhibition Page: www.alba.art/galleries/da...

Step into the infinite with @anbello's FEARFUL SYMMETRY, an incredible exploration of the cosmic detail in every fractal. Fearful Symmetry by Andrea Belloni www.alba.art/projects/fea... ◇ Thur, Feb 1 @ 1pm EDT ◇ 128 Editions ◇ 0.02 ETH

Who needs an instant meditative state in their lives? I'm still in awe of Ella's piece Cinders, which instantly sends me to that magical place. 50% minted and counting www.alba.art/projects/cin...

Like a luminescent child's mobile, PNEUMON by @julienlabat.bsky.social is all rotating shapes and refracted colors — fractured panes of a neon stained glass window — art perfectly aligned to put you in a meditative flow Minting today @ 1pm EDT on @albadotart.bsky.social www.alba.art/projects/pne...

This output reminds me of one of the face huggers from Alien 👾 Minting for Ella’s piece CINDERS opens in 1 hour on @AlbaDotArt. It’s genuinely magic. I could seriously imagine leaving this playing on my laptop screen for hours at a time. Project Page: www.alba.art/projects/cin...