Epis.#293: When the aim is the immaterial- artist Mitchell Chan

Published: May 1, 2021, 8:37 p.m.

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Toronto-based conceptual artist Mitchell Chan talks about his epic \\u201cDigital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility,\\u201d a blockchain-based work which was inspired by Yves Klein\\u2019s late 1950s precursor, \\u201cZones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility;\\u201d we talk about Klein\\u2019s legendary work The Void, the apex of his ongoing project of making invisible, or nearly invisible, artworks, and how his revolutionary work may have been interpreted at the time; and we talk about the NFT (non-fungible token) market- how it\\u2019s helped his Digital Zones work, how a lot of great conceptual work has been made on blockchain, even if it\\u2019s not dominating the marketplace\\u2026 and his philosophical take on the NFT trend from the perspective of an artist who\\u2019s been working in blockchain for at least the last five years.

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