The online magazine for critical conversation about digital art. RCS shares the mission of
@club_nft
to protect, support & empower next-gen artists & collectors
"It feels like a lot of the artists and a lot of what is going on in the space has become businessified or corporatified. Artists who I used to talk to directly now have staff."
––
@artnome
on the new world of digital art 🌎
GENERATIVE ART AND JAPAN’S BRIGHT FUTURE
As Bright Moments Tokyo spotlights a new generation of digital artists, KUMALEON (
@KUMALEON_
) hosts a group of rising suns
C’est avec tristesse que nous apprenons le décès de l’artiste française Vera Molnár (1924-2023).
Elle appartenait à la génération des artistes influencés par l’émergence des nouvelles technologies. En 1968, elle devient l’une des premières artistes à faire de l’ordinateur son
"One of the most amazing things about
@fx_hash_
is that there is no authority telling you what is good art, & what is not good art. Drops are not curated. I believe this is one of the reasons why the fxhash community is so vibrant.” -
@NftEconomist
👉
#NFTs
🌿
@zancan
's early work and
@mattdesl
’s foray into the NFT space, after years of plotter and digital art-making, share a concern with markers of naturalness and manufacture.
~
@saintsoftness
Read on 👉
#NFTs
🎉🎉CELEBRATING 2 YEARS OF RCS🎉🎉
As
@RtClick_Save
marks its latest milestone, we wish to thank YOU for your support in continuing to drive critical and inclusive conversations about digital art.
We are nothing without our global community of creators, collectors, and
THE NFT COLLECTOR | IDA BELLE
A leading collector of generative art (
@IdaHerself
) shares her favorite pieces with Danielle King (
@Rrose_Selavy_11
)
Credit:
@zancan
, Landscape with Carbon Capture
#6527
(2022)
THE CONVERSATION | ARTNOME AND COZOMO
The grand patron of the House of Medici (
@CozomoMedici
) speaks to the crypto art OG (
@artnome
) about the art of collecting
WHERE NEXT FOR DIGITAL ART❓
With Web3 in flux, Danielle King (
@Rrose_Selavy_11
) and Jason Bailey (
@artnome
) discuss what 2024 holds in store with Alex Estorick (
@AlexEstorick
)
Read at the link below👇
FOR THE LOVE OF SQUIGGLES 🌈
Ahead of a special auction of unminted Chrome Squiggles, collectors share what Snowfro’s (
@ArtOnBlockchain
) masterpiece means to them
THE GENEROUS ART OF ROBERT HODGIN
The generative artist (
@flight404
) reveals the beauty in things we don’t understand, writes Virginia Valenzuela (
@vinnythesnail
)
PIXEL ART AND THE AGE OF TECHNOSTALGIA 👾
As a new exhibition opens at Unit London (
@weareunitlondon
) its artists discuss the aesthetics and politics of pixel art with Charlotte Kent (
@Lucy2Scribbles
)
1/ 🎂Friends! TODAY is officially our BIRTHDAY!
In 2022, we laid the foundations for a more critical, inclusive & progressive art world. We would've not been able to do this without our writers, readers & supporters. We are so grateful for you, from the bottom of our 💙s! 🧵👇
SHUNSUKE TAKAWO ON GENERATIVE ART IN JAPAN
Ahead of Right Click Live in Tokyo, the artist (
@takawo
) shares his own local and global influences with Alex Estorick (
@AlexEstorick
)
🖼️Highlighting the remarkable artists featured in our articles:
Refik Anadol, Quantum Memories, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Tom Ross / Turkish artist
@refikanadol
is "a media artist, director, & pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence."
👥 For this week’s RCS special on
#generativeart
, we'll have some of the core members of the artistic & collecting community of
@fx_hash_
tell us throughout this week where they see the most potential for generative art & their hopes or predictions for the future. 👇A slow 🧵 /1
THE FX(HASH) CONVERSATION | CIPHRD AND ZANCAN 🌱
The founder of fx(hash) (
@ciphrd
) and the revered generative artist (
@zancan
) discuss the art of nature and the platform’s bright future with Alex Estorick (
@AlexEstorick
)
@RtClick_Save
🤝
@fx_hash_
"There is going to be overlap between art and collectibles and it’s going to make some people uncomfortable. But people should be free to experience art in the way they want." -
@ArtOnBlockchain
👉
#NFTs
THE INTERVIEW | KIM ASENDORF
The artist (
@kimasendorf
) discusses how digital art has evolved from Web2 to Web3 with River Davis (
@drbannerX
)
Read at the link below👇
🎉 We're celebrating a big step towards what Aaron Swartz fought for - that taxpayer-supported research be easily accessible to taxpayers, and to the public at large.
👏 This is a perfect time for us to announce something very special 🥁🥁🥁 ...
It's a 🧵👇‼️
📣 FEMGEN is back!
Presented by
@verticalcrypto
& yours truly 😉, with
@artblocks_io
during their Marfa Weekend
This year's second edition exhibition continues FEMGEN's vision of an alternative art world
🗓️ 22 September at
@glitchmarfa
So who are the participating artists?👇
3/ So we're excited to share news of our first partnership with
@SothebysInst
for the new academic year!
Our mission is to decentralize scholarship to make it easier for young scholars to share cutting edge research with the public!
Please RETWEET. See full details to SUBMIT👇
COUNTDOWN TO 2024 🎉✨🎉
As a magazine dedicated to supporting the community of creators, collectors, and curators
@RtClick_Save
would like to thank YOU for continuing to support the magazine this year 🫶
We close 2023 with a countdown of the TOP 5 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES 🧵
😳 Are you lost and confused when it comes to
#taxes
and
#NFTs
?
Alex Roytenberg,
@TheNFTCPA
will tell you what you need to know, with guest speaker,
@datcsv
!
PRO TIPS
1) Read this: …
2) Set a reminder:
🖼️Highlighting the remarkable artists featured in our articles:
Clockwise from left: Zancan, Lushtemples — The Stones which Stood, 2021; Garden, Monoliths, 2021; Lushtemples — Ars Ex Naturae Ex, 2021 / Based in France,
@zancan
is "a former oil painter, longtime programmer, /1
1/ "We can make Shibuya the heart of such movements. Manga culture, anime culture can become very symbolic in this new movement…. I want people to be able to connect online and in the metaverse, and we need branding in that sense. We need to create a universe." -
@rockinumber6
👇
“Behind the scenes a lot of blue-chip artists have highly skilled digital artists working for them, whose labor is viewed as a means to an end. […] I don’t wish to diss anybody, I’m just saying that as a digital artist it’s a little annoying…”
@auriea
on “born digital” art…
🖼️Highlighting the remarkable artists featured in our articles:
Panter Xhita, Shadows of a cliché: Guy Fawkes Mask, 2021. Courtesy of the artist /
@PXhita
is an Argentinian cryptoartist.
🇺🇦 Please join us in donating to The Ukraine Emergency Response Fund via
@TheGivingBlock
:
Many thanks to
@BayBackner
of
@orica_io
for collaborating on
"A Tribute to the Extraordinary Artists of Ukraine"
👉
"It is highly relatable to kicking a paint can that splatters on the canvas and does something that really surprises you. It’s almost more prone to accidents than painting and drawing.” -
@tylerxhobbs
on creative coding
👉
#NFTs
Are you comfortable with the fact that you don’t actually possess the media you believe you own? ... [T]his isn’t a theoretical question. ~Nate Nelson
👉
#NFTs
With
@XCOPYART
's aptly named piece - VOID, 2012.
🖼️Highlighting the remarkable artists featured in our articles:
Refik Anadol, Quantum Memories, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Tom Ross / Turkish artist
@refikanadol
is "a media artist, director, & pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence."
"I’m grateful to my mentor Casey Reas, a pioneering media artist who, alongside Ben Fry, invented Processing. In my mind, that was the starting point for creative coding." -
@refikanadol
THE INTERVIEW | MATT DESLAURIERS
One of the world’s leading generative artists (
@mattdesl
) discusses the evolving digital landscape with
@AlexEstorick
🌱
"Generative art is the art movement of our generation, but we are also really early to it. We’re going to see so much more, and not only art but also the experience of how we buy, mint, and share art. At
@brtmoments
Tokyo, the artists were collecting and bonding as a community,
1/ "Back in the ’90s, I would develop works digitally, but there wasn’t really a mechanism for them to exist as digital works in their own right, so I would execute them as paintings, silk screens, and collages. 🧵👇
🌷THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE NFT
Following the conclusion of her wildly popular project, Remember Me, Luna Ikuta (
@lunaikuta
) speaks to Charlotte Kent (
@Lucy2Scribbles
) about the blockchain as an art medium
w/
@buildwteknique
Read on 👉
#NFTs
“In the app, you can track the passage of your postcard and see the mileage. We’re trying to demonstrate translocal connectivity, with communities brought together by shared interest rather than shared geography.”
@mpierpont3
on the power of the
@Autonomy_io
app 🌎
1/ Presenting FEMGEN - a one-day event & exhibition highlighting artists identifying as women amongst the
#generativeart
community
In partnership with
@verticalcrypto
and
@artblocks_io
📍Art Basel Miami, Southwest Wynwood
📆Saturday Dec 3rd, 1pm-7pm EST
See you there ✨
1/ "The fact that a lot of the most successful crypto artists happen to come from either Nigeria, Mexico, or the so-called Global South, I think, also tells you something about where the contemporary art world needs to go in order to evolve." -
@AlexEstorick
at
@GazelliArtHouse
THE POWER OF THE PLOTTER
Feral File’s new exhibition, +GRAPH, celebrates the art of generative drawing
Aleksandra Jovanić (
@alexis_o_O
) and Julien Gachadoat (
@v3ga
) in conversation with Alex Estorick (
@AlexEstorick
)
@RtClick_Save
🤝
@FeralFile
"Japanese collectors tend to not buy as investment. They like the art piece & that is why they buy that art ... - less investment appetite and more about quality work." -
@MacTuitui
(From ✨RIGHT CLICK LIVE✨ in Tokyo 🗼)