NFS NSFW NFT
New Art City, online
Jul 15 - Aug 31 2021
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NFS NSFW NFT is a 3D virtual exhibition produced by members of NEW INC and Rhizome’s Art & Code track. We’re showing on New Art City, hosting a Zoom opening, minting a NFT on Foundation, and closing with a panel at Hunter College — all, to explore the critical poetics of this particular not-for-sale, not-safe-for-work, and non-fungible-token moment. We used New Art City’s gallery toolkit to veer from the white cube. Instead, we built four rooms that feel like community gardens each with a specific theme, landscape, and art critters from AI and livestream videos to invisible and textual sculptures. Each ecosystem is skinned with digital debris from the vectoralists (to borrow from McKenzie Wark). We’ve built on, under, and all-around their topology. Holding space. Getting lost. Keeping company. Critic Brian Droitcour said, “NFS NSFW NFT addresses topics that occupy many artists now: how the body is mediated by technology, how the market captures value, and how artists navigate these systems to survive.”

Organizers
Christopher Clary
Mark Ramos
Pearlyn Lii

Essayist
Lindsay Howard
Zach Kaplan

Artists
Bhavik Singh
Christopher Clary
Itziar Barrio
Johanna Flato
Lula Mebrahtu
Mark Ramos
Nahee Kim
Pearlyn Lii
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga
Yeseul Song
Ziyang Wu

Platform
New Art City

Support
Foundation
New Art City
NEW INC
Rhizome

Exhibition
New Art City

Press
Art in America