{"id":2740320,"date":"2023-06-27T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1016567-4521551.cloudwaysapps.com\/plato-data\/digital-art-platform-feral-file-turns-two-with-a-starry-retrospective-featuring-works-by-refik-anadol-tyler-hobbs-and-more-artnet-news\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:54:22","slug":"digital-art-platform-feral-file-turns-two-with-a-starry-retrospective-featuring-works-by-refik-anadol-tyler-hobbs-and-more-artnet-news","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/plato-data\/digital-art-platform-feral-file-turns-two-with-a-starry-retrospective-featuring-works-by-refik-anadol-tyler-hobbs-and-more-artnet-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Art Platform Feral File Turns Two With a Starry Retrospective Featuring Works by Refik Anadol, Tyler Hobbs, and More | Artnet News"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 2019, artists Casey Reas, Rick Silva, Addie Wagenknecht, and the duo exonemo embarked on a project, inviting about 75 of their fellow artists to submit and swap editioned blockchain-based works over the course of a week. \u201cThis experiment,\u201d wrote the curators, \u201cis a way for us to trade works to create a collection.\u201d They dubbed the project <\/span>a2p<\/span><\/a>, or Artist-to-Peer, and in both spirit and format, it would lay the groundwork for Feral File.<\/span><\/p>\n Today, Feral File has cemented itself as a digital art platform by and for artists, that continues to champion the edition model. Since its founding in 2020 by Reas and blockchain startup Bitmark, it has hosted 33 online selling exhibitions, featuring 26 curators and 178 artists. Offerings range from the group show \u201c<\/span>Peer to Peer<\/span><\/a>,\u201d curated by <\/span>Buffalo AKG<\/span><\/a>\u2018s Tina Rivers Ryan, to \u201c<\/span>LeeMullican.PCX<\/span><\/a>,\u201d curated by Anika Meier and gathering the oil painter\u2019s early computer artworks from 1987. Most recently, \u201c<\/span>In\/Visible<\/span><\/a>\u201d saw curator Linda Dounia Rebeiz bring together A.I. works by Black creators which highlight the technology\u2019s built-in biases.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just such a wide range of artists, with different ideas and approaches to practices in digital art,\u201d Reas told Artnet News of the platform\u2019s programming. \u201cPeople coming from the outside might view digital art as fairly narrow, but for me, Feral File shows that it\u2019s such a diverse and eclectic practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n