Exhibition for Sale [Block 001]: "Inhuman Transaction"
Group Exhibition at The George Fraser, 18-21st October 2022
This is [001] in a series of cryptographically linked and RSA certified artworks which contain each exhibition in Gryffin Cook’s practice. To certify the authenticity of each exhibition for sale, use the public key at https://gryffincook.com/ to decrypt the RSA signature and verify against the hash of the Exhibition’s 3D file.
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"Inhuman Transaction navigates the conflict between the promise and threat of new technology. This collection of self-critical works of art explores virtual worlds, currencies, blockchains, simulations, and artificial intelligence to make sense of our current inflexion point between technology, art and culture. Virtual realities, Artificial Intelligence, Web 3.0, Cryptocurrencies and Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) represent an emerging way of life ‘augmented’ by digital technology. This new model envisions a techno-utopia that transcends traditional hegemonic structures, makes us more connected as a species and accesses virtual worlds of infinite possibilities. The danger is that these new technologies perpetuate oppressive capitalist desires, leave individuals disembodied, disconnected, and disillusioned, all at the cost of our physical world. Inhuman Transaction seeks to critique digital technologies in terms of structural qualities including proprietary ownership, virtualisation, energy consumption and white cisgender dominance. Mediums include interactive NFTs, moving image, projection, computer simulation and digitally generated sculpture. The guiding theme of the self-critical work of art seeks to simultaneously explain, express and critique the medium from within itself as a form of cultural self-evaluation."
Artwork in order of appearance:
Gryffin Cook, Ownership Machine, 2022
Acrylic, PC, NFT, JavaScript
Gryffin Cook, Receipt Machine, 2022
Thermal receipt printer, HP Desktop, Monitor stand, Java
Fabio Morreale, This is an NFT, 2022
p5.js, glsl, index on the Tezos blockchain, hosted on IPFS
Fabio Morreale, This is (not) an NFT, 2022
p5.js, glsl, self-hosted
Gryffin Cook, Block Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, 2022
Acrylic, PC, NFT, JavaScript
Leo Baldwin-Ramult, Obsessional Machines, 2022
Generative computational systems (machine learning, natural language processing, custom software, desktop computer, LCD monitors, thermal receipt printer)
Terrestrial Assemblages, Soil Model, 2020
Plexiglass, software, computer hardware, cabling
Gryffin Cook, Code is Law, Et Al, 2022
Peter Thiel, Theodore Kaczynski, Vitalik Buterin, Thermal Receipt
Grace Bella, HYPERsex Marilyn Box, 2022
Live projection, acrylic board, repurposed wood, thread, playdough, slime.
Sean Kerr, Lost, 2020
Realtime 3D
Angela Pan, Untitled, 2022
Moving Image, CRT Display, Faux fur
Xi Li, Spirit Ether, 2021
Moving image, 15'54"
Gryffin Cook, Ethereum Value Array Index 2016-2022, 2022
Bronze (NZ 1/2c coins)
Gryffin Cook, Bitcoin Value Array Index 2016-2022, 2022
Bronze (NZ 1/2c coins)
Gryffin Cook, Tezos Value Array Index 2016-2022, 2022
Bronze (NZ 1/2c coins)
George Turner, Follow Me Back, 2022
Animated video, 1080 x 1920, 3.20mins
