Brian Droitcour

Jan 7, 2025 | culturedmag.com | Brian Droitcour

Cory Arcangel, Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (Version A) (Film Portion), 2024. Image courtesy of the artist, Lisson Gallery, and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery. What must a work of art do to make us feel something when we’ve been anesthetized by 10-second videos, marketing emails, and endless images of suffering? It can feel as though you need special training to understand a painting. Which forms best speak to a broad public?

Dec 9, 2024 | frieze.com | Brian Droitcour

The first time I put on a virtual-reality headset, I was at a museum. For many in the art world, exhibitions that began cropping up about around 2019, such as ‘AI: More Than Human’ at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, offered first encounters with visuals created by generative adversarial networks (GANs) and other new machine-vision technologies. Since the public release of applications like Dall-E and Midjourney in 2022, images made with generative AI have become inescapable.

Sep 24, 2024 | eyebeam.org | Brian Droitcour

Software as Underpainting FeedEssay When I visited the studio of painter Pieter Schoolwerth this spring he showed me a diagram he’d made to visualize his position in the history of painting. If cubism depicts one object from disparate perspectives, his art expresses a single perspective dispersed across multiple objects.

Jun 27, 2024 | outland.art | Claudia Hart |Brian Droitcour

Commentary by Claudia Hart June 28, 2024 On January 10, 2024, the US securities regulator approved the first US-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) to track bitcoin. The next day, 4.6 billion USD worth of ETFs were exchanged—a watershed moment for the cryptocurrency industry. I viewed these enactments as a kind of ritual performance, endowing Bitcoin with the aura already inherited by the US dollar when the gold standard was broken in 1971.

Jun 19, 2024 | us5.campaign-archive.com | Brian Droitcour

This past weekend I published my report from Basel, where the first edition of the Digital Art Mile fair made some connections between the trad and web3 art worlds thanks to its proximity to Art Basel. Those crossover moments, and the anxiety that traditional galleries and institutions still seem to feel about NFTs, were the main focus on my article, which you can read here.