alt.history #8 – mitchell f. chan

New technologies and cultural developments are often synonymous with erasure; forgetting why or how we used to do things, and what words or communities meant. By addressing moments, practices and works that have disappeared from memory (or been completely forgotten) in the last three decades, the alt.history conversation series presents experts in culture and aesthetics, in a reflection that seeks to resurface and re-examine the lost narratives of digital culture. This series is curated by Holo (holo.mg), a Canadian editorial and curatorial platform created in 2012 that focuses on emerging trajectories in art, science and technology.

#8 – mitchell f. chan

Crossing physical and digital spaces, Mitchell F. Chan combines conceptual art with computer games, code and blockchain. In 2017, he created Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, one of the first examples of art made with NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Over the last few years he has realised works with code such as Art Blocks (2021), large-scale public projects such as Monument to United Nations Peacekeeping Veterans (2022) and art with video games such as Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge (2021), an allegorical game about the Reconstruction era, and The Boys of Summer (2023), an interactive simulation of sports management.

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