Sale Date:
Starting next week,
Sotheby’s will host “
Natively Digital” a weeklong online auction foregrounding 28 influential new media artists whose works surface the historical roots and future prospects of NFTs as a medium. Anchoring the sale is
Quantum, a generative digital animation backed by the
first non-fungible token ever minted.
The work’s origin is the 2014 edition of
Rhizome’s “Seven on Seven” conference, where
Kevin McCoy and collaborator
Anil Dash premiered what they then (semi-ironically) called the monetized graphic (or “monegraph”) a digital image time-stamped and registered to its creator on the blockchain, allowing the artist to retain ownership (and be paid appropriately for authorized use) of a file that is otherwise by its nature infinitely replicable.
Patrick Clarke
, May 27th, 2021 07:38
CHAI take Patrick Clarke through the development of their neo-kawaii philosophy on third album WINK, being their own role models, and why they love to make audiences laugh
Photos by Kodailkemitsu
In-store gigs are curious things. They’re at the wrong time of day, shelves rearranged to make space, set times and volume reduced, confused crate-diggers asking whether the shop’s open. While they’re often intimate, it’s rare that they might rank among the most enjoyable shows of one’s lifetime. All the rituals are just a little off. It was not so, however, when I saw Japanese four-piece CHAI play a short set at London’s Rough Trade East in the Autumn of 2018, in support of Heavenly Recordings’ UK release of their debut album
Hosted by Errol Nazareth,
Frequencies celebrates the world music album of the year nominees by spinning songs from nominated artists like Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, Lengaïa Salsa Brava, Mazacote, Okan and Zal Sissokho.
CBC Music in studio at the Junos: the Reclaimed Session
1 p.m. local time at
Connecting the generations and Indigenous nations across Turtle Island and beyond, this
Reclaimed session features performances from this year s Indigenous Juno Award nominees and the next wave in Indigenous music. From Nunavut to Wiikwemkoong, Denendeh to Tkaronto, host Jarrett Martineau celebrates the sounds of Indigenous folk, roots, blues, powwow step and moccasin gaze.