tangible data

Tangible Data explores and infiltrates an online community that develops a “virtual” art market for a cryptocurrency-hungry public. A series of animated loops—created and monetized by the artist to suit the demands and consumption of this community—provide a basis for the larger project, which extends across several web platforms

In this new cryptoart market, everything seems poised for the virtual universe which paradoxically displays characteristics inherent to the material world. While the internet fosters accelerated sharing and open-access content, this community subject to blockchain technology rarefies the immaterial in order to allow collectors to claim rights over the artworks. This has the insidious effect of affirming the monetary value of intangible web-based artworks. And yet, this also makes way for an unprecedented transparency concerning transactions carried out in this market.

One of the components of Tangible Data involves unveiling the interactions between artists and collectors, documented through screenshots on online platforms like Twitter, Discord, and Reddit. These traces are integrated into the animations which display their exhibition context in spaces that bridge the real and virtual worlds. The animations are thus both artworks in and of themselves and models for real installations to come.