NFS NSFW NFT is a virtual exhibition produced by members of NEW INC and Rhizome’s Art & Code track. We showed on New Art City, hosted a Zoom opening, and minted a NFT on Foundation — 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.

Credits: organizers, Christopher Clary, Mark Ramos, and Pearlyn Lii; essayist, Lindsay Howard and Zach Kaplan; artists, Bhavik Singh, Christopher Clary, Itziar Barrio, Johanna Flato, Lula Mebrahtu, Mark Ramos, Nahee Kim, Pearlyn Lii, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Yeseul Song, and Ziyang Wu; platform, New Art City; support, Foundation, New Art City, NEW INC, and Rhizome; exhibition
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