Rhea Myers @rheaplex Twitter profile

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

1 year

@pokemoniku @EricFrohnhoefer I’ve been a developer for 25 and no. This isn’t a boss trying to learn or be helpful. It’s a boss saying incorrect things in public that undermine confidence in the company for spiteful and self-serving reasons.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Every day, someone who is justifiably anxious about and angry at the world wakes up, discovers that NFTs exist, and vents their impotent fury on something that they have hallucinated is wrong with NFTs after ten seconds of intense not-thinking about the subject.

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2 years

A reminder that NFT haters are an affinity group, and will believe anything you tell them about NFTs as long as it’s negative.

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@rheaplex

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@argvee Unpopular opinion: Google should pay open source maintainers way, way, more than they do.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I still can’t believe anyone thinks that painting on stretched canvas is anything other than a naked speculative cash grab based on avidly imitating bourgeois commodity forms of property.

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@rheaplex

3 years

I’m deeply offended by the idea that I’m just selling jpegs on the blockchain. They’re pngs of svgs.

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@rheaplex

2 years

My radical critique of NFT art is that some of it is good.

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@rheaplex

2 years

My favourite part is the anti-crypto bros who are discarding any understanding of medium, industry, or economics, to perform the contemporary equivalent of laughing about how automobiles are just worse horses for clout and dopamine.

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@rheaplex

2 years

@gabagooldoteth What else is safe for them to vent about and get social approval over without tripping over ideological divisions?

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

3 years

I'm starting an email newsletter for news about my art activities. If you have messaged me to ask about the availability of works in particular you'll want to sign up to it. The first news will be along in the next few days. You can sign up here -

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@rheaplex

2 years

The medium is the market.

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@rheaplex

2 years

The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Me.

OpenSea

@opensea

2 years

Who was the person that first introduced you to NFTs?

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@rheaplex

2 years

It’s my birthday today. No not the first one, that would be weird.

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@rheaplex

2 years

New rule: I don’t debate NFTs. I block. If you want to learn about them I have published work on the matter. If you want to teach me about them then see the previous sentence.

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@rheaplex

2 years

O-kay. If I was to write a post about: * The non-zero utility of cryptocurrency. * Energy usage. * Centralization. * Capitalism. Would that make people happy? Is there anything missing from that list?

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@rheaplex

3 years

Heya everyone. You’ll notice that I’ve updated my name and pronouns. I have a new Twitter handle ( @rheaplex ) and a new website ( ). When writing about or exhibiting my work - past or present - you should use these details. DM me any questions. Tx!😺

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@rheaplex

2 years

@MForstater I’m married and have two kids. Shoo.

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@rheaplex

3 years

Patreon but you pay people *not* to write things.

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@rheaplex

3 years

I’m thrilled to announce that “Secret Artwork (Content)”, my first actual factual ERC-721 NFT piece from 2018 (after making blockchain art since 2014) is in “Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale” at Sotheby’s. Follow the link for details -

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@rheaplex

2 months

@papadagger @stacycay @antifaoperative Trans people below the age of majority. Define fucking off. By example.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I like talking about art. If anyone would like to talk about art with me then let me know.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Has anyone in the artworld/academia ever thought *un*critically about NFTs?

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@rheaplex

3 years

My work here is done.

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@rheaplex

3 years

People don’t realize that when you buy a painting all you’re getting is a piece of fabric with some coloured creams smeared on - you don’t even get the copyright! How is this worth anything???

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@rheaplex

3 years

One year ago today I started HRT. It’s given me peace, joy, and occasional tearful outbursts on behalf of kittens. I got it safely and without administrative delays through informed consent. Support trans healthcare. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

4 years

Contemporary art is fractally encrypted capital.

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

2 years

Soooo a simple union DAO for artists would be a thing…

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

3 months

I can finally announce my roadmap and development plan for 2024: I make art. If you buy the art you get art. That's it.

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

3 years

@WhyIteachtoday @RainofTerra @netflix Refuting his bigotry with facts? When did he say that people would do that?

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

3 years

I found a tx in an ancient block With an output that encoded: “Behold the metadata hash of OGmandias, crypto superstar. ipfs fetch my works and despair!” Yet the pin is lost, that txout Is all that remains, buried ever deeper In the chain as miners ceaseless hash away. 🧐

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

1 year

It’s my birthday. I am 0x32 today. I am very happy. 🥰🥳☺️

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

2 years

Did you know that an image file doesn’t actually contain the image? It just contains a (usually compressed) digital description of its content that can be rendered by software. If you don’t know the format it’s just meaningless bits. 🤯

Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

2 years

Did you know that a screen doesn’t actually contain the image being displayed on it? All these right clickers who think they’re doing something via the screen don’t realize that the image is actually in memory. And just wait ‘til they find out about GPUs. 😂

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@rheaplex

3 years

The Mona Lisa is long since tokenized, and in the public domain, and widely forged on canvas, and widely photomechanically reproduced, and secured in an air conditioned facility that people burn many tonnes of kerosene to visit each year.

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@rheaplex

6 months

Psst! Hey you! Yes you! You should join my art project news mailing list for a big reveal coming up shortly -

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@rheaplex

1 year

@Spinner189 @keffals @jk_rowling @jessiegender Nah she’s a real book author I checked.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Did you know that a screen doesn’t actually contain the image being displayed on it? All these right clickers who think they’re doing something via the screen don’t realize that the image is actually in memory. And just wait ‘til they find out about GPUs. 😂

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@rheaplex

1 year

Transphobia has no place anywhere, which means it has no place in any art scenes.

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@rheaplex

2 years

A delightfully aesthetic mess.

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@rheaplex

2 years

😻

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@rheaplex

1 year

Cryptography - particularly cryptographic commitments, and unfalsifiable temporal ordering - the blockchain, are reality keys against the total postmodernism of AI.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Working on a new keyboard layout. 🤔

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@rheaplex

8 months

As with every new technology, artists who actually do something with it are targeted for harassment by (wannabe) commercial illustrators who strangely don’t object to (or even notice) any of the technology they personally use despite how disruptive it was a generation ago.

Eryk Salvaggio

@e_salvaggio

8 months

I don’t want to get into it here but sometimes the anti-AI art crowd, which I largely agree with, treats art like it is exclusively about commercial illustration. They’re advocating against an artist who made a thoughtful piece with AI to comment on AI. It’s a bummer.

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@rheaplex

4 months

Honesty is an underrated component of art making.

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@rheaplex

1 year

New show! "The Ego, and It's 0wned" at Nagel Draxler in Berlin - New Book! "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011 - 2021" from Urbanomic publishing -

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@rheaplex

3 years

WOW, RHIZOME, WAS THERE A PREHISTORY TO NFT ART? DID IT ALL HAPPEN IN NEW YORK AND/OR WITH YOUR MATES? WHOMST COULD HAVE PREDICTSTED THIS UNPRECEDENTED TURN OF ART HISTORY??? ENERGY USAGE YOU SAY??? WOW!!!!! fml

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@rheaplex

1 year

New, hopefully green-screen-proof hair.

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@rheaplex

1 year

There is one copy of “Proof of Work” left at MoMA in NYC. 👀

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@rheaplex

6 years

the two genders

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

24 days

@Maccanorton @diannaeanderson Effective hormone therapy has psychological effects within days, and physical effects within weeks. Participants in the control group will know they are in the control group shortly after the start of the trial. This makes the trial impractical and unethical.

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@rheaplex

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@graceelavery Spite, mostly.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I would like to make very clear that doing so did *not* make me a billionaire. 😺

NFT Tech

@nfttech

2 years

⏳The History of NFTs is a new series where we highlight project's that have shaped the #NFT industry. 🔴 July 2014 (8 years ago) @rheaplex created the Ethereum Art Market, the first crypto art marketplace. 🧵1/4

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@rheaplex

2 years

I am an NFT thinker. Each of my thoughts is an NFT. If I seem momentarily confused, it’s because a block is taking longer to produce than expected. Wait I missed an opportunity there around the concept of a “mental block” can we re-record thi

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@rheaplex

2 years

NFT art is art, art NFTs are art. NFTs *secure* an *identifier* that you can attach data to, but that data can still be copied. To claim that they thereby *securitize* that data (what data?) is therefore mystification, or credulity, draped in the garb of critique.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Last year, various people told me I was lying when I said that proof of stake was possible (and operational on other chains since 2012…) and/or that Ethereum would adopt it soon and/or that it would reduce energy usage significantly. I wasn’t lying.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Like it’s great that you can get clout and/or cash for saying NFTs bad, and that this skill was simply repurposed from whatever you were saying was bad before, and can simply be repurposed to the next thing, but that’s not critique. That’s grift.

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@rheaplex

2 years

@binaryAegis 🚩”I’m Dr. Ray Blanchard”

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@rheaplex

2 years

@lisaquestions OK but they may be a group of men so devoted to a goddess that they castrate themselves and dress and act as women. That is a perfectly coherent and much simpler explanation than no I can’t keep a straight face I’m sorry but

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@rheaplex

2 years

The linked Wikipedia discussion is an ontological trainwreck. NFTs are not art any more than canvas is, but oil on canvas artworks exist. Sadly, Wikipedia views reality through the lens of mainstream American media, so what is needed is an NYT article saying “NFTs are art”.

Duncan Cock Foster

@dccockfoster

2 years

🚨 Art Emergency!! 🚨 There is a debate happening rn on @Wikipedia that has the potential to * officially categorize NFTs as ‘not art’ on all of Wikipedia. * Wikipedia is a global source of truth. Having NFTs categorized as ‘not art’ would be a disaster! 🧵:

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

2 years

1. The “trust” of Satoshi’s white paper isn’t interpersonal confidence, it’s awareness of a treacherous mediator. 2. Trust, in the good sense, and reliance, in the good sense, are different. 3. Getting offchain truth onchain is hard. 4. These are oooooooooooold debates in crypto.

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@rheaplex

2 years

NFT Art is absolutely a thing.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I’m working on art, which is great, but I’m suffering a bit from performance anxiety because whatever I do next will be in the public eye in a way it hasn’t been before (>0 where previously 0).

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@rheaplex

2 years

Jordan Peterson is an insecure person’s idea of a confident person.

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@rheaplex

1 year

One like = one art opinion (E&OE).

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@rheaplex

2 years

🤷‍♀️

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

3 years

So, wow. 🥳 @robertalice_21 and Sotheby's did an amazing job presenting the work. I'm glad that some of the sale is going to the minting fund & offsetting the energy use of the sale. Thank you so much to everyone who bid, and *thank you* to all of you here for your support.

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@rheaplex

1 year

Sleepy Rhe in NYC.

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@rheaplex

8 months

A big thank you to all the transphobes reposting my current profile pic in which I am stood in front of my art in a gallery while having no make up on, jet lag, and travel hair, looking proud and happy. I’d forgotten how good that moment felt. ☺️

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@rheaplex

2 years

19yo me outside my art foundation show.

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@rheaplex

2 years

“Space Invaders” was art.

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@rheaplex

2 years

@laturboavedon Egyptian tomb decorations.

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@rheaplex

3 years

@KatyMontgomerie “Define define.”

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@rheaplex

5 years

You, a philosopher: The "Chinese Room" thought experiment proves that computational Strong AI is impossible. Me, some rando: The "Chinese Room" thought experiment proves that thought of any kind is impossible under naturalism.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I’m not for sale so that might explain it a bit.

MOCA - Museum of Crypto Art 🔜🕳🐇

@MuseumofCrypto

2 years

people are racing to buy historic collectibles but not historic crypto artists 🏃 why is this?

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@rheaplex

2 years

The true artificial scarcity is the paucity of interesting critiques of NFTs.

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@rheaplex

3 years

This is probably only the second time in the last decade that I’ve stopped to think about what I’ve contributed to the world of crypto art. The other time was when @coin_artist and I were being interviewed about her painting -

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Rhea Myers

@rheaplex

2 years

Greetings, lovely new followers! I have a newsletter - A book coming out - And a website - I tweet about many things, not always seriously. I will eventually tweet about what you followed me for again. 🙂

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@rheaplex

2 years

A reminder that “crypto swine” is a gender neutral alternative to “crypto bros”. I myself am one of the feral hogs of crypto.

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@rheaplex

1 year

🥳

Urbanomic

@urbanomicdotcom

1 year

Good news, shibes! @rheaplex ’s ‘Proof of Work’ is now available everywhere ! Pick up this informed, generous and humorous intro to blockchain and art and what they might mean for each other, and learn about Rhea’s evolving digital art practice

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@rheaplex

2 years

@TinaRiversRyan The abyss gets a lot of bad press but it’s just not used to being stared at.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Capital is encrypted labour.

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@rheaplex

3 years

Telling artists you have a real job isn’t the flex you think it is.

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@rheaplex

2 years

@gabagooldoteth @6851cf3c @songadaymann @davidgerard @creativecommons NFTs are about managing your rights in a medium with built-in payment and provenance. They also facilitate collaboration and restore a sense of individual ownership that CC doesn’t provide. That ownership (as every galaxy-brain points out) is of the token, not the work. 3/4

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@rheaplex

9 months

BRB just counting how many I’ve made.

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@0x113d

9 months

How many important artworks are there in cryptoscene

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@rheaplex

2 years

Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make The Merge happen! 🥳

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@rheaplex

2 years

Today a small child innocently rammed me with their shopping cart and their mother asked them to apologize to “the lady”. So yay. ☺️

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@rheaplex

2 years

“It does not escape our notice that a queer trans person of color has been made the scapegoat for these accusations.” Intersectionality-washing someone who is hoping to simply ignore the accusations that do in fact very clearly apply to them until they go away is not a good look.

Neon Hemlock Press

@neonhemlock

2 years

We stand by the inclusion of the authors invited to our anthology. We oppose transphobia and harassment in all its forms and hope you do too. Our intent is to support queer & trans voices in speculative fiction and to keep learning better ways to do that.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Important update.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I’m doing podcasts again now btw if anyone is interested.

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@rheaplex

2 years

@RoisinMichaux @PinkNews @keffals OK transphobe.

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@rheaplex

2 years

If you are scared of “wokeness”, “intersectionality” or “pronouns” you’re ngmi. Sorry, I don’t make the rules, it’s just how markets process information.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Let me be extremely clear. We all have to work together to realize the promise of crypto. If you are being an asshole about the ideas of people you don’t understand, that is not working together. If you are being an asshole about *people* you don’t understand, that is worse.

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@rheaplex

3 years

I am once again imploring you to go beyond moral panic bromides in your NFT Art critique projects.

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@rheaplex

2 years

So I guess the mid-career mansplainers of nettime are all NFT experts now, huh?

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@rheaplex

3 years

Artists: we would like to be paid please. Crypto: here you go! Artworld Intermediaries: WHO WILL SAVE THE ARTISTS FROM THIS EXPLOITATION? Artists: can you add royalties? Crypto: sure! Artworld Intermediaries: LOOK AT HOW COLLECTORS ARE EXPLOITING ARTISTS! Nobody: AI: ENVIRONMENT!

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@rheaplex

2 years

To subtweet, lack of money in has stopped careers & taken a toll on institutions & those who run them. It has hampered production, archiving, restoration, and presentation. Monetization would be less evil than impoverished financial structurelessness here.

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@rheaplex

2 years

I am begging people to read up on 90s VR.

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@rheaplex

2 years

Feeling like shit from a COVID booster is a nice change from feeling like shit due to anxiety. I’m actually enjoying it. No this isn’t sarcasm.

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@rheaplex

1 year

Heya all! My show opens tonight at Crypto Kiosk in Berlin. I’d love to see you there if you can make it. They have copies of my book available as well, and I will have a silver pen to hand. ☺️

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