‘Life’s a Gamble’ by FEWOCiOUS: $82,550 USD

The interactive sculpture plus digital work closes in live auction with Christie’s. It was built from a vintage slot machine and re-engineered with custom circuitry, Raspberry Pi integration and more with the help of engineers Dillon Mims and Gio DiLisio. The artwork marks Age 21 of the artist’s auction series, and FEWOCiOUS shares that after close it enters “Owner Mode”, including prizes, a 1/1 painting, and more.

‘Chromie Squiggle’ by Snowfro: 4.3689 ETH & $16,500 USDC

Within the 1/1/10,000 ‘Chromie Squiggle’ collection, there are 542 “Zero Day” Squiggles running from #0 to #541. These were minted before midnight UTC on the collection launch date, November 27th, 2020. Within the past 24 hours, both #120 and #175 find new homes.

‘Hypertopographics #2’ by Edward Burtynsky & Alkan Avcıoğlu: $16,000 USD

The 1/1 artworks series, released with Heft Gallery, is a “critical reflection on humanity’s entanglement with the immense systems we've built, yet struggle to fully comprehend”. Originally released as a single 1/1, #2 is the fifth of a subsequent ten to be acquired, this one to ignipax.

XCOPY Innit:
‘LAWS_INNIT’ is announced as the 4th artwork in the fully onchain ‘FRESH HELL’ collection. 30 Allowlist spots for the edition of 42 are now being raffled in the XCOPY Discord.

Opening Node:
Mark your calendars for January 23rd - 25th, as NODE officially opens in Palo Alto. The occasion will be highlighted by CryptoPunks, as “the collection that launched a movement comes alive”.

ZKM Blooms:
Artist James Bloom reports that artworks from his signature collections ‘BURNER’, ‘GOLD’, and ‘MASSS’ have been acquired by ZKM Museum in Germany. “Very proud to have my networked blockchain art with greats like Nam Jun Paik, Bruce Nauman and Vera Molnar” says Bloom.