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May 4, 2026

WEEK OF MAY 4

ARTWORKS

Still Available

Karyn Nakamura’s first NFT drop, SPITBALLS, a series of simulations in which language is rendered as a fluid organism born from a parasitic virus.

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Check on Transient Labs

Some past works by the artist


UPCOMING EVENTS

NEW YORK

☼ Wednesday, May 6th - 8PM

Harvestworks and Roulette present Maya Man’s performance-lecture StarQuest. With an introduction by Harvestworks Interim Director Ivana Dama, followed by a conversation with Christiane Paul.

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☼ Thursday, May 7th, 8PM

Eva Davidova's performance Audience As Virus at ISSUE Project Room, in Brooklyn.

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SAN FRANCISCO

☼ Friday, May 8th - 7.30PM

Gray Area presents a special night of artist-made films Good Modeling Picture!!, selected by internet artist performer Molly Soda.

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☼ Saturday, May 9th - 7PM

TITLES and Gray Area present: Dream Models curated by Alice Scope.

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MILAN

☼ Wednesday, May 6th - 6.30PM
Retrospective exhibition opening of Synthetic Creatures by pioneer artist Rebecca Allen at the MEET Digital Culture Center, presenting a chronological journey through fifty years of research, from early animations to virtual reality experiments, including recent works created using AI.

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VENICE

☼ Thursday, May 7th, 6PM

Museum of Artificial Art (Moao)’s Sunset Salon and Aperitivo at Ca' di Dio. Reserved to 100 Collectors Members

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☼ Friday, May 8th, 6PM

TAEX’S cocktail reception, private event in the presence of Marina Abramović, celebrating the presentation of her avatar at Galleria dell’Accademia.

Reserved to 100 Collectors Members

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For more details, don’t forget to read the agenda of digital art events taking place during the 61st Venice Biennale that we have prepared for you.

Here

BARCELONA

☼ Thursday, May 7th - 7PM-9PM

Exhibition opening of Auntiescapes by niceaunties, part of the ongoing AI-driven Auntieverse project, at Load Gallery.

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Followed by a talk with the artist on May 9th, 7pm.

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READINGS OF THE WEEK

☼ On Right Click Save: CHANGE OF PROTOCOL | DIGITAL ART AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Here

☼ By Noriaki Nakata: Where To Stand (On Yoshi Sodeoka's “21.000” and 21.000 II)

Here

UPDATES

☼ We have a new website with more up to date copy and a free content / article section if you'd like to share with fellow collectors who might be interested in joining the fun! It's a work in progress but we wanted to share it with you.

Here

WEEK OF MAY 11

ARTWORKS

Still Available

New Bad Image explores how online culture reshapes identity through endless circulation. Using found and deteriorated imagery scavenged from the web, the exhibition proposes a form of self-made mythmaking, reclaiming agency through the noise of the infinite scroll. Artists: Parker Ito, Petra Cortright, Evil Biscuit, mifella, Ann Hirsch & Maya Man, luhhfella, Tojiba Brand Manager, terrorism. Curated by sssluke on Verse.

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Mint the exhibition flyer by Andreas Gysin for $5 Here

Notes on the “New Bad Image” by Brian Broitcour is published on Right Click Save Read here


UPCOMING EVENTS

DUBAI

☼ May 14th-May 17th
100 collectors will be at Art Dubai - Special Edition! As an institutional collaborator, we are creating collector-led experiences that make digital art more legible and approachable, through guided tours and digital art guides. Find us at the fair or visit our stand.

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Your Digital Art Agenda for Art Dubai

NEW YORK

It’s Frieze week! May 13th-17th

☼ Saturday, May 16th, 1.30PM-6PM
Seven on Seven (7x7), the flagship art & tech program organized by Rhizome, returns at the New Museum. Founded in 2010, the event pairs artists with tech luminaries for deep conversation and day-long collaboration. Each pair is given a simple assignment: make something new.

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☼ May 15th-June 12th
Transmissions brings together exceptional experiences of music + art into a cross-disciplinary showcase. This immersive four-week installation at Heft gallery pairs iconic and avant-garde music with contemporary visual art, and the gallery becomes a listening room for deep engagement with music, art, design, and performance.

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SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE for 100 collectors members Request here

☼ May 14th-May 17th
Independent Art Fair

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☼ Thursday May 14th, 6PM-8PM

Code Chronicles V.2 exhibition, opening at bitforms and curated by

Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, brings together artists Claudia Hart, Libby Heaney, Seo Hyojung, Ellie Pritts, Emily Xie, and Addie Wagenknecht in an exploration of how generative processes and artificial intelligence are reshaping artistic production.

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☼ Saturday May 16th, 1.30PM-6PM

Open Worlds: An Afternoon of Digital Art Encounters at Museum of Moving Image. The day brings together a book launch by Travess Smalley celebrating his new monograph Pixel Rugs, a live performance by Edgar Fabián Frías featuring four local Indigenous artists, and a performance and lecture by artist OONA, concluding with a reception.

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READINGS OF THE WEEK

PLEASE RESPOND | GENERATIVE ART’S EXQUISITE CORPSE on Right Click Save

Tyler Hobbs starts a chain reaction with ten artists evolving the same algorithm over ten consecutive days Here

☼ New podcast The Human Protocol - the personal side of building big things Here


UPDATES FROM 100C

☼ Request your tickets for NFC Lisbon here and for Art Basel (in Basel) here

☼ We are hosting our first 100 collectors Monthly Members Conversation -

This new monthly format is a space to connect with the team and fellow collector members, exchange perspectives, and stay close to what’s coming next across the network. Don’t miss it and RSVP here.

☼ We are happy to invite 10 collectors from 100 collectors to participate in this initiative promoted by Tezos where works minted on Tezos will be exhibited at NFC Lisbon. Each collector can pick one work (portrait format, moving image ideally) and gently put it on this spreadsheet here before May 19

WEEK OF MAY 18

ARTWORKS

Drop May 21, on Artblocks.

Rain Blooms by artist Kazuhiro Tanimoto is an edition of 128 unique generative works, built on an original cellular automaton. Each work is generated in real time on the collector’s device through the iterative execution of local rules, code on the chain. The release coincides with the artist’s solo exhibition at NEORT++ in Tokyo curated by our @norinakata (15–31 May 2026), where the work is also presented as Rain Bloom Lattice, a small edition of five physical LED works running the same algorithm.

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Check the Catalog

Rain Blooms #3

UPCOMING EVENTS

PARIS

☼ May 21st, 7PM

ArtVerse Gallery is proud to present Automata Anima (Soul of the Machine), a two-chapter exhibition navigating the symbiotic territories where human instinct meets algorithmic agency. By bringing together the robotic investigations of Patrick Tresset (Chapter I) and the phygital cosmologies of Celine Shen (Chapter II), the exhibition explores the “anima”—the vital breath—as a force that flows through carbon and code alike.

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Participate in Human Study #1 performative installation by Patrick Tresset

Eleonora and Pauline interacting with Human Study #1 by Patrick Tresset at AUTOMATA booth - Digital Art Mile, Art Basel 2025

SPECIAL OFFER

We share a special offer for 100c members from Inksea around the idea of giving digital art the display experience it deserves.

Inksea has built elegant tools for collectors to easily curate and display digital artworks at home, from videos and generative works to still images.


100 collectors members get:

• 15% off the Inksea Player to broadcast your collection on any screen (€329 → €280)

• 3 months free of the Inksea App

• 15% off Inksea Frames

• Code: 100COLLECTORS (limited to 10)

If you're attending NFC Summit 2026 in Lisbon, you’ll also be able to:

• see all of the above in action in the Inksea Art Lounge

• pre-order and pick up your Player directly at NFC

• access special pricing on exhibition displays used at NFC

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READINGS OF THE WEEK

NFC SUMMIT PUTS ART FIRST AT THE NEW FACTORY SITE on Right Click Save.

In its fifth year of operation as a digital cultural festival, the NFC Summit, with the Non Fungible Conference and its seven other constituent events, is moving to a new, larger, site where its program will be built around art. Here

WALK WITH US - INSIDE THE DIGITAL SECTOR OF ART DUBAI SPECIAL EDITION 2026

The past week we were in Art Dubai! Do not miss what happened. Here

☼ Following the opening of the exhibition in Paris, watch Eleonora Brizi in Conversation with Patrick Tresset at the Digital Art Mile conference 2025. Here

UPDATES FROM 100 collectors

Request your tickets for NFC Lisbon here and for Art Basel (in Basel) here

LAST CALL

We are happy to invite 10 collectors from 100 collectors to participate in this initiative promoted by Tezos where works minted on Tezos will be exhibited at NFC Lisbon. Each collector can pick one work (portrait format, moving image ideally) and gently put it on this spreadsheet here.

Deadline May 19th.