Main entry:

Myers, Rhea, author.

Title & Author:

Proof of work : blockchain provocations 2011-2021 / Rhea Myers.

Publication:

Falmouth, United Kingdom : Urbanomic Media, 2022.

Description:

1 online resource (318 pages ): illustrations (chiefly color.

Notes:
'Hurt me! No, not like that!' : A conversation with Rhea Myers / Maya B. Kronic -- Writings. Excerpt from a recounting of an Adventure by Baron Munchausen (2008) ; Open source art again, again (2008) ; Data-driven artists and their critics (2013) ; The proletarianisation of art criticism (2013) ; 'Computers and Capital' : The rise of digital currency (2014) ; Artworld Ethereum (2014) ; Ethereum Art Market (2014) ; Crypto sigils (2014) ; My little penny, Bitcoin is magick (2014) ; Fear of smart contracts (2014) ; Bad Shibe (Uncut Version) (2014) ; (Conceptual) art, cryptocurrency, and beyond (2014) ; The ABC of accelerationist blockchain critique (2014) ; Vampire digital art (2014) ; Agoric aesthetics and philosophy (2014) ; Ethereum Standardised Art Contract API (2015) ; Ethereum art ecosystem (2015) ; DAOWO : DAO it with others (2015) ; Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs : Dawn of Decentralised Autonomous Workers' Councils (2015) ; Plantoid : The blockchain-based art that makes itself (2015) ; Art for algorithms (2015) ; Geneses (2016) ; Artworks and curation on the blockchain (2016) ; TCT-1 (P") Turing Complete Tarot One (2017) ; You can't Hodl this Holdhus (2017) ; Tokenisation and its discontents (2017) ; Blockchain poetics (2017) ; 'Artists Re : Thinking the Blockchain' : Initial book offering slides (2017) ; Blockchain geometries (2018) ; The large glass, burned (2018) ; 'Code Is Law' shall be the whole of the law (2019) ; Three times three modes of blockchain art (2019) ; The hunt for the one true chain (2019) ; Aesthetic comparison games (2020) ; AI art, ownership, blockchain (2020) ; Tokenized Vickrey aesthetics (2020) ; Hash Gematria (2020) ; WART -- Wrapped Art (2020) ; From WART to DeAes (2020) ; Intensive and extensive aesthetic property token composition (2020) ; Why bitcoin is money according to Marx (2020) ; Essay on 'Essays on Art & Language' (2020) ; Upgrade art now! (2021) ; Welcome to the dessert of the real : On certain developments in the content of NFT art (2021) ; Blockchain temporalities (2021) ; Recanting quasiproperty (2021) ; For an art of pure price (2021) ; Maximum transaction density (2021) ; A thousand layers / Being and timestamp / Can what is Hodling you make it to Layer 2? (2021) ; Bridall Day (2021) ; Horses (Worldbuilding Tweets) (2021) ; Necronomicon (2021) ; Ubu Onchain, ou les maximalistes (2021) ; First notebook entries on blockchain art (2021) -- Works. The World's First Bitcoin Artist (2011) ; Hot Cold (2014) ; Is Art (2014, 2016/2017) ; Art Is (2014, 2017) ; MYSOUL (2014) ; Dogecode (2014) ; Facecoin (2014) ; Monkeycoin (2014) ; Proof of Existence (2014) ; Blank Canvas (2016) ; The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto : TORCHED H34R7S aka 1Flamen6 (2015) ; Blockchain Aesthetics (2014-2015, 2019) ; Critical Coins (2015) ; Simple Blockchain Art Diagram (after MTAA) (2017) ; Democratic Palette (2016) ; Lottery Symbol (2017) ; DEMODAY (2017) ; Art Coins (Coloured) (2015/2017) ; Schelling Flags (2018) ; Secret Artwork (2018) ; Local Maxima (2019) ; Tokens Equal Text (2019) ; Staking Ratio (2019) ; Token Grid (2019) ; Proof of Work Bitmap (2019) ; Pay Previous Path (2019) ; Hack Line Properties (2019) ; Certificate of Inauthenticity (2020) ; Shared Secret (2020) ; 1 Doge = 1 Doge (2021) -- Glossary.

Summary:

"DAO? BTC? NFT? ETH? ART? WTF? HODL as OG crypto artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers searches for faces in cryptographic hashes, follows a day in the life of a young shibe in the year 2032, and patiently explains why all art should be destructively uploaded to the blockchain. Now an acknowledged pioneer whose work has graced major auction rooms, Myers embarked on her first art projects focusing on blockchain tech in 2011, making her one of the first artists to enter into creative, speculative and conceptual engagement with "the new internet". Beginning with a wide-ranging conversation in which she traces her artistic trajectory and speaks in depth on all the major themes of her work, aesthetic, technical, political, and conceptual, this anthology brings together annotated presentations of Myers's blockchain artworks with essays, reviews, and fiction -- a sustained critical encounter between the cultures and histories of the art world and crypto utopianism, technically informed but always generously demystifying and relentlessly provocative. Myers's deep understanding of the history of and debates around blockchain technology is complemented by a broader sense of the crypto movement and the artistic and political sensibilities that accompanied its ascendancy. Remodelling the tropes of Conceptual Art and net art to explore what blockchain technology reveals about our concepts of value, culture, property, and currency, her work has become required viewing for anyone interested in the future of art, consensus, law, and collectivity."-- taken from back cover.

Resources:
Available to Stanford-affiliated users.

ISBN:

9781915103055 (electronic bk.)
1915103053 (electronic bk.)
9781915103048
1915103045

Subject:

Myers, Rhea.
Blockchains (Databases)
Art and technology.
Art 21st century.
Chaînes de blocs.
Art et technologie.
Art

Added entries:

Blockchain provocations 2011-2021