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Optimism has its precedents: situating the rise of NFTs by Nina Dyer
In the space between the publication of The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader in 2008 and the writing of this text, significant global developments in the marketability of born-digital art have taken place. Unlike earlier forms of dematerialised art production such as Conceptual Art, digital art has largely managed to avoid institutional recuperation through its resistance […]
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An ecology of Net Art
Vicki Smith Vicki Smith weaves a path through four works that intersect with the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, either via network members or in typifying the often multi-disciplinary approaches of ADA artists. She uses a metaphorical net to draw connections between the works and the communities they encompass, and how technology threads her creative investigations. […]