Proof of Work
08 Sep - 21 Dec 2018
Courtesy Distributed Gallery. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Courtesy Distributed Gallery. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Tropical Mining Station, 2017. Pneumatic membrane, cryptocurrency miner, plexiglas casing, plinth, fans. Dimensions variable.Courtesy the artists. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 216 x 164.5 x 5.5 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Courtesy the artist and American medium. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Curated by Simon Denny in dialogue with Distributed Gallery, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Hamerman and Sam Hart, Kei Kreutler, Aude Launay and Anna-Lisa Scherfose
CryptoKitties
Aria Dean
Distributed Gallery
Harm van den Dorpel
FOAM (Ryan John King, Ekaterina Zavyalova, Nick Axel and Kristoffer Josefsson)
Sarah Hamerman and Sam Hart
Decentralized Autonomous Kunstverein (Nick Koppenhagen and Wesley Simon)
Kei Kreutler
left gallery (Harm van den Dorpel and Paloma Rodríguez Carrington)
Wayne Lloyd
Mark Lombardi
Jonas Lund
Rob Myers
Hayal Pozanti
Billy Rennekamp
Jason Rohrer
Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft
0xΩ (Avery Singer and Matt Liston)
terra0 (Paul Seidler, Paul Kolling and Max Hampshire) in collaboration with Georgia Hansford, Louis Center and Gregor Finger
"Proof of Work" brings together works engaged with the culture around cryptocurrency, bitcoin and blockchain as a possible new infrastructure for money, computing and organizing. This includes artwork made by crypto builders, crypto experiments built by artists, and paintings and drawings that resonate with cryptocurrency but predate the invention of bitcoin.
"Proof of Work" takes its title from the consensus algorithm used in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. A protocol for curating designed by Simon Denny has distributed decisions regarding the inclusion of artworks and artists across a group of artists, curators and technologists.
With a conversation program by New Models – Caroline Busta, Lil Internet, Daniel Keller