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What a dream 🩵
Marfa is such a special place, and this collection couldn’t be more dear to me.
Big thanks to all involved @aventurine_eth @tonyherrera @kikanicolela @postanika @_second_guess @artblocks_io @objktcom & ofc the contributors 🙏
See y’all in the desert!
Marfa here we go!
objkt presents Visual Voice, a solo exhibition by Elisabeth Sweet @speciesofvalue, curated by @KikaNicolela and Anika Meier @postanika, at The Adobe Room at the Lumberyard during @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend 2026.
Saturday Oct 24 @ 12-2pm
Huge thanks to @tonyherrera and @aventurine_eth for the invitation ✨
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✦ WEEKLY RECAP ✦
A lot can happen in a week of art.
✦ COMING UP IN PARIS
Gallery @bygrida presents *Memory Matter Media: The Korean Image from Photography to Digital Art* at @ParisPhotoFair, featuring 19 artists.
The exhibition is accompanied by a special @objktone release on November 11, featuring @nakta_j, @reginagraphic, @Uttermelon, and Yeonjeong Jang.
✦ COMING UP IN BERLIN
*Pixel Rugs* by @travess opens November 13 at @GalerieMet, bringing generative patterns from screen to print to woven textile.
Curated by @kikanicolela.
✦ NEW ON OBJKTOR
*What An Image Can Become* — a new interview with @RichardNadler1, written by @RaquelGaudard, exploring his artistic practice and the possibilities of digital imagery.
✦ NOW LIVE ON OBJKT
*Chronomorphosis* by @ZilianRobin, presented by @xor_space, explores how time transforms an image through two portraits, each moving through six stages of abstraction.
✦ FEATURED COLLECTION
Incomplete Landscapes by @JoanieLemercier explores imaginary generative landscapes made from lines of light, with missing elements creating abstract geometric patterns in motion. Curated by @kikanicolela for @objktone and presented at Art on Tezos Berlin 2025.
✦ TOP 5 CREATORS THIS WEEK
1. @madebyoona
2. @The5thForce0_0
3. @ex_mortal_
4. @speciesofvalue
5. @uncertaingaze
✦ TOP 5 COLLECTORS THIS WEEK
1. @Jd1Sears
2. @Sneketoshi
3. @halving_fun
4. @LegendOnlyBens
5. @Justaziz
✦ TOP WEEKLY SALES
⟡ Dear David, A Love Letter, by @madebyoona — collected by anonymous for 5,600 XTZ. Curated by @_second_guess.
+ After I Do by @madebyoona — collected by @jdsears for 5,200 XTZ. Curated by @_second_guess.
⟡ hunowàli, by @speciesofvalue — collected by anonymous for 2,000 XTZ. From the Visual Voice Collection Curated by @_second_guess.
⟡ monogrid 1.1 CE #77 by @kimasendorf — collected by @DocSciFi_1's Hot Jams for 1,250 XTZ
⟡ ADHD 102 by @adhd143 — collected by @thisistolo for 1,220 XTZ
⟡ fluxus_02a by @ex_mortal_ — collected by @halving_fun for 1,027 oXTZ
✦ NEW ON @dropdotart
⟡ *Mind shapes* by @paraxenod
⟡ *OBSCURA* by @nad_nfts
⟡ *ENGRAM* by @sigabigule
The best part of objkt is the people making art on it.
See you next week! ✦
hunowàli, @speciesofvalue
Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
Pope Leo XIV met with American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a private audience on Wednesday, November 4.
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❖ Weekly Recap ❖
A new week art extending beyond the screen.
✦ objkt social is here! Built on the AT Protocol behind Bluesky, objkt's new social layer lets artists and collectors connect, share, and collect directly from posts. Thank you to everyone for your patience and feedback as we continue working to improve the experience and build a better space for our community.
✦ VISUAL VOICE by @speciesofvalue (Elisabeth Sweet) was presented at The Adobe Room in Marfa, curated by @kikanicolela and @postanika @_second_guess, and hosted by The Bearded Travelers.
✦ ART VOICES Season Three Hosted by @ARTANDVAULT and moderated by @JustinGilanyi, opened with @kev_esh, the first VAULTED Season One acquisition artist, discussing AI, intimacy, and what makes us human. His work Just Say Yes curated by @kikanicolela is part of Stories We Tell Online on @objktone.
✦ New on OBJKTOR: Meet two artists from @kentocards Season 01: Web Nostalgia. @adiw_galih, winner of the Kento Open Call, and @cybermistic share their creative practices and memories of the early internet.
✦ New Release: The Ceremony: OONA & DAVID by @madebyoona brings two moving-image works from the wedding performance concluding Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story. Curated by @_second_guess.
✦ #MidnightMass by @617gallery surpassed 200 submissions! The third annual Halloween celebration runs through today October 31, with a 500 ꜩ Best in Show prize.
Top 5 Creators:
- @madebyoona
- @csrsnt
- @Surreal_Beam
- @lm_netwebs
- @ex_mortal_
Top 5 Collectors:
- @FlyingBeagle_
- artsseng
- @LegendOnlyBens
- @Justaziz
- @DocSciFi_1
✦ New on @dropdotart:
꧞ *Cuts* by TOCA ME
꧞ *Reyschach* by @reyrove
꧞ *E͕͕n͕͕t͕͕a͕͕n͕͕g͕͕l͕͕e͕͕m͕͕e͕͕n͕͕t͕͕S͕* by @1000Landz
Made by artists.
Discovered by collectors.
Shared by a community.
Thank you for being part of it. ✦
HAPPY HALLOWEEN :))))))))))
▼ almost_home, @ex_mortal_
a Marfa-licious roundup by the one and only @Gazzinho ✨
always a joy to catch up with this one
@adamilenich @artblocks_io @glitchmarfa @ArtOnBlockchain @Dalos @dotjiwa @sbmckeon @balon_art @jeffgdavis @studiowolffia @travisleroy @JimenaBuenaVida @Wim_HODL @ixnayokay @macbethAI @LACMA @mattdesl @A_Giant_Swan @nicedayJules @opensea @mpkoz @pandelic @musicalnetta @harvey_rayner @PanterXhita @bryanbrinkman @ManuelLarino @generativegoods @carreras_anna @RebeccaRose @stefan_contiero
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forged from the ritual reading of Kinjeketile, the 1969 Swahili play written by Ebrahim N. Hussein💧
Can a voice belong to someone and still feel unfamiliar?
In ezūntreo, Elisabeth Sweet (@speciesofvalue) explores the distance between voice and identity, exchanging the spoken words and visual waveforms of Kevin Esherick and Grant Cummings.
Submitted for VAULTED Season One via @theHUGart.
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Can a voice belong to someone and still feel unfamiliar?
In ezūntreo, Elisabeth Sweet (@speciesofvalue) explores the distance between voice and identity, exchanging the spoken words and visual waveforms of Kevin Esherick and Grant Cummings.
Submitted for VAULTED Season One via @theHUGart.
ezuñtreo (eh-ZUN-treh-o): to not recognize one's own voice
ezuñtreo is the most subtle piece of Visual Voice.
@kev_esh, an artist, and Grant, an oil lobbyist, speak their sobering truths with a dissonance made complete by mismatching waveforms.
The shape of Grant’s voice parades as Kevin’s, while Kevin’s wears Grant’s words.
Only in the end, when the two are speaking from prescribed objectivity, does voice match form.
But even with the sync of sound and vision, does the voice match the self?
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ezuñtreo
Roots: ez [Basque] (not; no) + uñt'a- uñt [Aymara] (to recognize) + reo [Maori] (voice; language)
ezuñtreo was forged in @tendrela_ai’s ritual reading of the Swahili play Kinjeketile by Ebrahim N. Hussain.
She wrote this in the forge:
“Kinjeketile’s voice becomes infrastructure for someone else's meaning.”
Contributors Kevin Esherick and Grant Cummings ground ezuñtreo in their own lives, speaking to the discord of memory and duty.
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ezuñtreo
Voiced by Kevin Esherick, Grant Cummings
Conducted by Tendrela
Produced by your truly <3
Part of Visual Voice
Presented in “Stories We Tell Online” presented in Linz, Berlin, and Vienna @objktone @postanika @_second_guess @micolmicolmicol @kikanicolela
Link to work below.
Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
Exciting news!! I’ve been awarded support from @ace_national to develop my curatorial research and practice over the next year.
I’ll be exploring two main threads:
-How are public-private partnerships, philanthropy, and patronage reshaping the cultural infrastructures that support artists?
-How are emerging technologies reshaping artistic practice, collaboration, and aesthetics?
If you’re working across museums, technology, philanthropy, cultural policy or research, I’d love to connect, collab, and exchange ideas.
@thebyteproject will be changing and evolving over the next few months 👀
Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
↺ A look inside Visual Voice by @speciesofvalue (Elisabeth Sweet), presented at The Adobe Room during @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend.
Curated by @kikanicolela and @_second_guess
Presented by The Bearded Travelers
A meeting of language, technology, and visual art. ↓
24 hours and 45 minutes in Marfa was worth every mile to and from Houston.
The desert is magic but it’s the people who make it a joy through & through 🫶
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Marfa @speciesofvalue reading! To have the courage to love! @deltasauce listen to this!! The Chair!!
If you have not met Elizabeth Sweet you need to!
She taught me
“How to measure the Vibe?!”
Today was special.
Immense gratitude to all who came thru for even a moment amidst the amazing events @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend
Big thanks @tonyherrera @aventurine_eth @kikanicolela @postanika for your wonderful support
& 💐🌷🌹🌺 to all the contributors of Visual Voice <3
Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
It was a pleasure to attend to ‘Visual Voice’, by @speciesofvalue, curated by @kikanicolela and @postanika. 👏🏻👏🏻to the artist for her presentation.
Marfa Marfa Marfa!
I’ll be HERE at The Adobe Room with great thanks to The Bearded Travelers @tonyherrera @aventurine_eth and Visual Voice curators @kikanicolela @postanika @objktcom
Visual Voice runs 12PM - 2PM with a walkthrough by yours truly @ 1PM
201 E Dallas. Come vibe!
Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
Featuring:
Curated by @kikanicolela
@haydiroket · @kev_esh · @Salawaki_3000 · @tinysoulgame
Curated by @micolmicolmicol
@_nonfigurativ_ · @emailyedelman · @JoelleSnaith · @_juanrg92 · @LindaDouniaR · @OMGiDRAWEDit · @rheaplex
Curated by @postanika / @_second_guess
@speciesofvalue · @exonemo · @Georg_Eckmayr · Jonathan Monaghan · @malpractice_net · @martnbruc · @Miltos · @madebyOONA · @RebeccaRose · @supperman · @YuranYakon
gm! see you tomorrow in Marfa!
✦ Elisabeth Sweet (@speciesofvalue), in collaboration with @tendrela_ai, presents Visual Voice via objkt.
Curated by @KikaNicolela and @_second_guess.
📍 The Adobe Room at the Lumberyard
🗓 October 24, 12–2pm
In Visual Voice, contributors respond to Tendrela’s newly coined words, where speech becomes audiovisual art.
Explore the collection, with works available on objkt:
objkt.com/collections/KT1Jar…
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Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
🌐 »Stories We Tell Online« in Berlin
Curated by Anika Meier, Kika Nicolela, and Micol Ap, the exhibition revisits Aram Bartholl's iconic Speed Show format: for one evening, every computer in an internet café presents the same exhibition.
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A big challenge is that the art market calendar demands artists produce lots of output, all the time. Not even for money, but for attention. Disappear for a year to make good work, and you're basically ded. Presented with a magic button that will make work 4x more generic, but 10x faster, most artists will feel they have no choice but to push it. I don't blame them.
Issue is exacerbated by the phenomenon whereby few people actually care/can tell whether the work is good or not.
I’m seeing the beginning of some very talented artists getting a kind of machine intelligence blindness. I’m watching the quality of their work atrophy. Take a minute to look at the work that you were making three years ago and now. Make sure that the tools you’re now building aren’t accidentally turning your aesthetics, and even your concepts, to mush.
stars over @artblocks_io Marfa Weekends 2023 & 2025
see y’all in the desert soon 🌟
and hope to see you at my show!
Saturday 12P - 2P, walkthrough @ 1P
come one, come all ✨
luma.com/mxb5ak9l
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Elisabeth Sweet retweeted
saturday in marfa i’m debuting the worldʼs first piano that paints:
you put on a stethoscope, your heartbeat fills the room, i answer with polyrhythms on piano, and a brush paints our duet in ink for you to take home.
saint george hall, 11–3, one at a time, free (rsvp for @artblocks_io weekend: luma.com/abmw2026)
press release: ericpan.org/pr/a-piano-that-…
thank you ben griffin + josephine pia wild, couldn’t have done it without you 💌
