Blockchain

 Sarah Friend, Lifeform Display Surface #3 (first generation) , 2021, silicone, iphone, custom webapp, and NFT, 15 x 15 x 10cm, from Lifeforms , Photo: Sarah Friend, Courtesy: Nagel Draxler

Sarah Friend, Lifeform Display Surface #3 (first generation), 2021, silicone, iphone, custom webapp, and NFT, 15 x 15 x 10cm, from Lifeforms, Photo: Sarah Friend, Courtesy: Nagel Draxler

An exhibition of NFT art at HEK, Basel pilots a variety of materializations of code-based work while benchmarking how quickly the blockchain genre is changing. 

With Spike #70, we take on the blockchain – all its problems and possibilities, from NFTs to cooperative art-collecting to the encroaching spectre of flat-out finance. 

 The Ayotzinapa Case: A Cartography of Violence Commissioned by and undertaken in collaboration with the Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense and Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez for the families of the 43 disappeared, the wounded and killed students, in the town of Iguala, Guerrero

The Ayotzinapa Case: A Cartography of Violence

Commissioned by and undertaken in collaboration with the Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense and Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez for the families of the 43 disappeared, the wounded and killed students, in the town of Iguala, Guerrero

We cannot take for granted that the decentralisation of networks, markets, and communication is in itself a good thing. Relations of power just work differently there. Jaya Klara Brekke and Francesco Sebregondi discuss the common ground between Forensic Architecture and blockchain technology.

 Photo by Avery Singer (detail)

Photo by Avery Singer (detail)

Why did you found a blockchain religion?