- What does your genesis artwork mean to you today?

Bail Bloc leveraged the speculative energy around cryptocurrencies in 2017 to intervene on the prison industrial complex in the United States. The project acted as a fundraising tool to bail low-income people out of jail by allowing people to download software which enlisted them in distributed cryptocurrency mining. Though it functioned well as a fundraising tool, its primary success was in its capacity as a work of cultural production, in that it exploited its technical conceit to wrench open a dialog about the prison industrial complex in the mainstream American press.

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- What was a significant event that happened in the 10-year history of Blockchain art that influenced you as an artist?

The most exciting crypto art projects are those which are enabled by the form of blockchain itself. Works by Terra0, Sarah Friend, and Primavera de Filippi imagine ways for organisms to exist on-chain, going beyond mere abstract references to pre-existing images. These projects create novel modes of art production and encourage new social formations.

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- What message(s) are you sharing in your new {R(Evolutionaries);} artwork?

My {R(Evolutionaries);} NFT series transforms my personal receipts into artworks, thus ordaining the purcahses to which they refer as art materials. At the moment of sale, an NFT receipt for a veggie dog purchased at IKEA in Berlin circa March 2023 becomes a legimate tax deductible expense, since the existence of the artwork (a readymade receipt) would not have been possible without it. It operates as a playful critique at the tax avoidance schemes of the ultra wealthy, including the sorts of tax avoidance strategies employed by traditional art collectors.

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