Jonathan MCCABE

When Code Blooms explores how flowers have evolved from enduring artistic motifs into generative systems shaped by mathematics, code, datasets and artificial intelligence.

Four years after the publication of Ben Davis’s Art in the After-Culture, this article revisits the book’s central questions through the lens of today’s art world. It explores authorship, curation, institutional critique, platform labour, AI art, and climate contradictions to ask how meaning and value are produced in culture now.

In this conversation with chrisroc, we discuss how value gets made in on-chain art, what preservation actually means in a decentralized world, and why the future of digital culture may depend on holding a line between increasingly centralized AI and the open infrastructure of the blockchain.

In this interview, Mdiac reflects on vertical collecting, his deep engagement with XCOPY, and the broader cultural, market, and infrastructural shifts shaping how on-chain art is collected, interpreted, and valued today.

In this conversation, #1 crush reflects on digital mythology, systems of belief, image circulation, internet memory, and the evolving relationship between identity and online culture.

In this new interview, Kate Vass speaks with BatSoupYum about collecting as cultural memory, the importance of supporting emerging artists, and the question of legacy in cryptoart. For him, collecting is a long-term commitment to the artists, ideas, and movements defining this era of digital art.

We sat down with Raoul for a conversation which began with macro and ended somewhere deeper: with taste, preservation, cultural memory, and the artworks that define an age. Thoughtful, sharp, and unexpectedly personal, this interview moves between finance and internet culture, between systems and symbols, between what holds value and what gives it meaning

Our article examines the rise of the longevity mindset: health as optimization in service of radical life extension and the consequences for power, capital, infrastructure, mental endurance, and culture.

As part of our ongoing project Collecting Art On-Chain - an initiative dedicated to documenting and preserving blockchain-native culture through conversations with early collectors, I sat down with aka thefunnyguys, an early generative art collector and the co-founder of Le Random and Raster.