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Artist. I do one project per year.
WORKERS' PLAYTIME currently on exhibit at DE SARTHE, Hong Kong.
Toronto chan.gallery Joined January 2010
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📣🌟Important announcement:🌟📣

Workers’ Playtime is the title of my solo exhibition running at DE SARTHE in Hong Kong from October 10 to November 21.

I have been working on the pieces for this exhibition non-stop for the past year: a set of sculptures that collage electro-mechanical pinball components, and a suite of video game levels. If you missed me at one of the parties or one of the conferences or something like that over the past 12 months, it’s because I was in my studio having the time of my life making these bizarre, hilarious, clever machines. I will say more about the work in the days to come. I think they’re fresh, I think they're funny; I think they are a little bit heartbreaking. I think you probably haven’t seen anything like them.

I am proud beyond words to be presenting this work at @deSarthe, a gallery that has assembled possibly the most exciting roster of digital artists of any gallery in the international art community today. That they have built this roster on top of their 40-year history of dealing in modern masters speaks to their rigor and commitment to pushing this new frontier in contemporary art.

If you are in Hong Kong next month, please let me know so I can send you an invitation to the reception. If you can’t make it, hopefully I’ll see you soon.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.
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A few months ago I gave a talk at @newmuseum about interactive, game-based and “worldbuilding” artworks, and why curators and critics struggle to assess them. It’s now an essay on @rhizome that maps out ways to read this stuff.

This new @GrantYun2 drop with @fellowshiptrust is exemplary of one of the types of art I defined in that talk. If you’re looking forward to this artwork, the essay might help shape your appreciation.

rhizome.org/editorial/2026…
rhizome.org Categories of the Art Game
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GM EVERYONE!
So so so excited to finally officially announce and show my upcoming project with Fellowship:
S E C T I O N S

A fully onchain generative interactable work built in my aesthetic language. Lets dive in just briefly:
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tick tock, tick tock... My year so far:

January - September 2026: Shut up and do great work.

October 5: Move into penthouse studio overlooking Kowloon Bay as inaugural Vu-Chu Digital Art Resident.

October 11: Open solo exhibition of brand new works at @deSarthe in Hong Kong.

October 14: Publish lecture on @rhizome about current state of game art.

October 22: Enter permanent collection at @LACMA.

October 30: Finish 3200 word art review / essay for HOLO Magazine.

November 4: Exhibit at Tokyo Jazz Club with @nguyenwahed

November ??: Fundraiser exhibition for @outland_art

December 2: Second exhibition of brand new work at @artbasel Miami.

December 6: Disappear for another year at least. Bye!
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Proud to be a part of this exhibition to support the art criticism which is so vital to this space
Standard Definition @briandroitcour 4d
not embodied gesture or machinic automation but
not a representation of the real world or the construction of a virtual world but
not style as effect or style as skin but
not a fabrication sketch or a finished work but
not original or version but
not signal or noise but
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