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Last Bill Edition Got Spent
For three weeks, much of my time has revolved around a transaction I cannot take back. On July 21st, a fee bump I pressed in the wrong wallet fed the final Digital EUR bill of “Do Not Accumulate” to a miner as part of a 758-satoshi fee. The full account is on the blog. This…
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Digital EUR Featured by 100 Collectors
I am honoured to share that Digital EUR, the first currency in my Do Not Accumulate series, has been featured by curator Eleonora Brizi for 100 Collectors, the global membership network for digital art collectors, as part of their 5 Things to Know series. Eleonora has accompanied this movement as a curator since its earliest days, and it shows in the reading. She…
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Introducing Do Not Accumulate
A currency programmed not to last. Do Not Accumulate imagines a near future in which cash is gone and the Digital Euro is programmable: 21 editions inscribed on Bitcoin, each losing one unit of value every month across a 21-month cycle. The EU flag becomes an eye watching every transaction. The clouds dissipate like the…
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Power Sculpting
I am working on a new sculpture, one that will bring together several elements, including power plugs. So I spent a couple of hours sculpting a power plug from scratch. Below is a behind-the-scenes peek: three screenshots from the process, each a stage further along. There is something quietly fitting in the exercise. A power…
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Scanning Skies for Clouds
I am returning to a small project I set aside last year: a script that scans the sky for clouds and traces their contours. The work is far from finished, and the difficulties are instructive. Dark clouds and clouds sitting in shadow absorb so much of the blue spectrum that they become hard to separate…
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A visit to Danae Gallery in Paris
During my recent stay in Paris, I finally had the chance to visit Danae in person and to spend some time with the team behind the gallery. It is one thing to send work across the ocean; it is another to stand in the room where it hangs. The occasion was Inner Voice, the group…