Sarah Friend

@isthisanart

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I'm on the jury for this fellowship with metagov, applications currently open for artists and researchers interested in experimenting with governance 🪺 Due Jan 20 https://metagov.org/join/jobs/governable-space-makers-fellowship

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there's a lot one could say about this, but I'm only gonna comment on one part here. As an artist my business is beauty, and while it is very very tempting to think beauty aligns with the good, it's actually amoral. It has its own axis https://mnovendstern.com/TechBrother

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I haven't! and I'm a beginner, 我才八個月前開始 haha - I just write the characters on grid paper, my handwriting is not pretty I'm doing it mostly for the mnemonic value

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I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it https://x.com/prmshra/status/1862532036394983596?t=-2S2nmKPANzHcrDrdF3JKA&s=19

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"Protocol art relies heavily on technical literacy and, as a result, is often perceived as hermetic. The blockchain is not a distribution channel for images but rather the material of the art itself." h/t @isthisanart https://worldcomputersculpture.garden/essay

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someone stole my umbrella tn in the network state. bearish

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languages are a kind of role-based access for cities

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I'm compiling a reader for my students - this looks good, but was thinking more bite-size

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favourite texts about mechanism design, good for introducing an audience to the field? or alternatively, protocols or projects that make good case studies?

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Just sharing a selection of the memoryforms minted so far! I love reading what people say about them, and am hoping that over time this can grow to be a collaborative memorial, and leave something permanent onchain even though so many of the Lifeforms themselves were ephemeral 💐 if you cared for a lifeform before Mar 6 of this year, you're eligible to create one - I might expand this to everyone who cared for a lifeform ever but it'll take me a lil while 😅

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you can check out the emerging collection here: https://opensea.io/collection/memoryforms the second interaction is a bridge, that moves lifeforms that are older than 1 year from Polygon to Mainnet Ethereum and is a way for a lifeform to "die" intentionally, instead of by disappearing

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launched two new interactions related to my long term project Lifeforms yesterday! first is a way to mint a memory of your lifeforms, shaped by how you interacted with them. You can check if you're eligible here: https://gooddeath.lifeforms.supply/

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some pics from my presentation about artist DAOs at Sonar Festival back in June I've been experimenting with interactive presentations formats, first at STRP Festival last year where I convened the audience into a DAO and had them vote on which of my artworks I talked about, and now at Sonar, where I actually wrote a lil app where the audience answered quizzes and as well as voting on which examples I should talk about in detail. It's a little bit tiktok npc and a lil bit educational game show. Planning to clean it up and use again in a somewhat different format early next year 🎰 📸: Jean-Marc Joseph

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time to start bridging that TIA 😅

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This series will also be accompanied by Screenshot Folder, an open edition of screenshots from an upcoming video work that are bundled as a pack of 5 images. Each work in the collector pack will have a small chance of minting as a short video, a bit like a foil card in a collector pack

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I see this as an opportunity for the artist and collector to collaborate, explore consent and identity, and model an alternative to the harmful proliferation of deepfakes. Each work from this drop will cost 20 TIA

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Connected to my explorations of nsfw AI images, Prompt Baby is an edition of 69 prompt credits, where the collector can submit a prompt to a model fine-tuned on images of myself. Each prompt will be prepended by “A photo of Sarah Friend” but otherwise the field is open. I will review the prompts and run them personally, and I may reject them or request modifications. Once accepted, the NFT will updated with the prompted image

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I'm about to release a looooot of new work in the next few weeks, starting with Prompt Baby, on Modularium & Forma on Aug 28 ✨💕

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ARTIST AND COMPUTER (Edited by Ruth Leavitt, 1976) . Compilation of 35 texts by computer artist pioneers (as Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohr, Lilian Schwartz, John Whitney, Herbet W. Franke) . Book here: https://archive.org/details/artistcomputer00leav/mode/1up Or here in plain HTML: https://www.atariarchives.org/artist/

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