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The culture of fandom will continue to create cognitive dissonance in artists who mistake their own celebrity [among a cabal of thirty 40 year old men] for artistic success

Outside of Solana, my other favourite work of on-chain art this year is ‘Wanderer’, by Jan Robert Leegte (@JanRobertLeegte). As part of Photo Paris 2025, Jan made ‘an autonomous, digital flâneur, an internet-based entity that roams the map of our physical world through an endless sequence of directional choices, recorded immutably on the blockchain and visualized through web-based map services’. It started at the Grand Palais, in Paris, and has now made its way West, deep into the countryside. Walking pieces have been a staple of conceptual art, from Stanley Brouwn’s ‘This Way Brouwn’, where he asked strangers to draw him maps of directions he had asked for, to Vito Acconci and Sophie Calle’s following pieces, where they elected random strangers to trail until they lost them (either through entering a building or general disorientation). I love Jan’s work here, the mix of autonomy and monotony, a never-ending trek across the globe that is totally decided by randomised transaction hashes on the blockchain. It feels like a work that should’ve come out during the lockdowns, but still feels fitting with the rise of AI and the fears around the autonomy of such technology. An exciting addition to the canon of ‘walking as art’, updated for the 21st century.

@leyla_solos @solos_gallery @tylerxhobbs @verse_works Have you read the Jennifer Roberts Mellon lectures book on print? Some very good bits

I collected a number of print portfolios during my previous role. Through them, I learned not only about different print processes, but also about what a portfolio actually is: never just a group of works placed in a beautiful box, but more like objects shaped through attention, care, and labour over time. Richard Hamilton was one of the artists who most shaped my understanding. Having dedicated much of his career to printmaking, he approached the medium not as secondary or reproductive, but as a way of thinking in its own right. For Hamilton, prints extended attention rather than diluting it. Working in multiples invited a slower, more sustained relationship with images - one built through repetition, comparison, and use over time. Portfolios, in particular, bring in a certain rhythm of looking. We saw this first hand at Art Basel Miami at our booth, where people put on gloves and moved through @tylerxhobbs' folio with visible care and patience. Such a different way of engaging with the works than just looking at them framed on the wall. Translated Gestures can be seen as an extension-perhaps even a completion - of From Noise. In this set of six silkscreen prints (with tokenised provenance), gestures drawn from the code are extracted and isolated, not only to reveal a more minimal side of Tyler’s practice, but to bring isolated attention to what sits at the centre of the series: mark-making itself.

A winter rose along the Seine. wanderer.leegte.org @Formachain @office_impart

@sssluke1 @heft_gallery @mpkoz Yeah bro

@heft_gallery @mpkoz its nice when galleries don't pack the booth.

GM! Heft Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 — Booth Z4 We’re honored to present Michael Kozlowski at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach. His project, Tessellations, explores the hidden architectures that shape contemporary life - circuitry, data infrastructures, and the geometric systems that silently organize the everyday.

@verse_works @refikanadol @tylerxhobbs @eli_schein @motzko @chilltulpa @davidshrigley @osf_rekt @redbeardnft @JerryGogosian @RaoulGMI @sashastiles @_nic_hamilton_ please

Verse Talks Oct - Nov 2025 ◆ @refikanadol ◆ @tylerxhobbs ◆ @eli_schein ◆ @motzko + @chilltulpa ◆ @davidshrigley ◆ @osf_rekt ◆ @redbeardnft ◆ @JerryGogosian ◆ @RaoulGMI ◆ @sashastiles Who next?

Most NFTs exhibit a kind of Zombie Formalism, yes, but the form that preoccupies them is the fetishized object of Technology itself.

Enjoy the in depth conversation between Sam Spike and me about Wanderer for @Formachain

@TeSLaX_D89 @office_impart @ParisPhotoFair 😂

@Formachain @office_impart @ParisPhotoFair you will be ghost chain soon

Missed our chat with @JanRobertLeegte about 'Wanderer'? You can now listen to it here in full, with improved audio quality: youtube.com/watch?v=2l3Bbn… We discuss: the art history of walking, art on the early web vs now, the interface as a territory to be explored, and much more…

Migration is complete and block production has resumed

At approximately 12:00 PM ET/17:00 UTC today, Forma will halt block production at block 20,282,999 to perform a sequencer network migration. Blocks are expected to resume within 2-3 hours of the migration start time.

Whilst the market bleeds.. I just won 420 ($300.00) $TIA 🔥 Massive thanks to @triflelife for the BURN-A-THON Shout out to @Modularium_Art & @Formachain There are 5 more chances to win 420 $TIA over the next 5 months 👀 kudzu.rodeo

Thank you @johnkarp and @NinaRoehrs for this extensive conversation about Wanderer. You can listen here: nftmorning.com/p/901-paris-ph…

You mean the old masters like Leegte Friend and Mammoth Overlord? Ez thesis

Yoooooooooooooooooo *hands on head*

@zeroyeung Ok thanks bro

@Formachain Forma is dead until Mammoth goes back to 400tia when price is 5$.

The entire world: NFTs are cringe, garish, intellectually impoverished playthings for tech bros Art Basel Digital: Hold my beer

@eli_schein Hello!

@Formachain Hey Sam