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A final way into 𝘌𝘹 𝘕𝘪𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰.

Casey Reas in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Watch the full conversation:
https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/shows/ex-nihilo-a3c?tab=video

In @reas’ 𝘌𝘹 𝘕𝘪𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰, the digital image moves across screen and paper. Casey Reas in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Bidding on the plotter drawings remains live through this morning on Feral File.

View the works:
https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/shows/ex-nihilo-a3c

Chance, repetition, and variation sit at the heart of @reas’ 𝘌𝘹 𝘕𝘪𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰. The exhibition is now open, and 𝘌𝘹 𝘕𝘪𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰 (𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴) is live on @artblocks_io. The exhibition page also includes Reas in conversation with @hansulrichobrist, plus @zsvn’s essay, 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘴.

Exhibition:
https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/shows/ex-nihilo-a3c

Ex Nihilo opens tomorrow.

Casey Reas’ first solo exhibition on Feral File unfolds across a long-form generative series and five original plotter drawings.

Ex Nihilo (Cosmos) opens tomorrow at 9:00 AM PT with Art Blocks. The plotter drawings follow on Wednesday at 11:00 AM PT on Feral File.

More tomorrow on the exhibition page.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

Introducing 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩, a new body of work by artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) that turns to the world of American competition dance—its sequins, discipline, and ambition—to consider how we perform, compete, and live through the unreal realities of AI.

Built from a dataset of 111 AI-generated dance scenes, each eight seconds long, StarQuest turns data into drama—where performance is coded, rehearsed, and replayed. Drawing on the emotion and spectacle of the cult reality series Dance Moms, and on her own background, Man transforms the world of competition dance into a meditation on visibility, labor, and control.

Next Tuesday, Feral File and Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) will co-present StarQuest in New York City at the Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Man’s performance-lecture will begin at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor. Free with RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maya Man’s solo exhibition will open online next week on Feral File on Thursday, November 20th at 17:00 UTC.

✨👧🩰 Triple Canopy and Feral File (@feralfile) are pleased to present StarQuest, an installation and performance-lecture by the artist Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet). Working with generative AI, Man has produced a video-based body of work that takes up the tropes and aesthetics of American competitive dance—a swirl of ambition, discipline, and spectacle—as well as the circulation of performance in the digital age. Drawing on Man’s childhood experience as a competitive dancer, StarQuest restages the choreography and interpersonal dramas of the cult reality television series Dance Moms. In an ever-changing order, AI-generated dancers twirl across the screen and speak of their fears and foibles in faux confessionals, establishing an uncanny friction between authenticity and artifice.

🌟 StarQuest will be on view from 6 to 9 p.m.; Man will present an accompanying performance-lecture at 7 p.m., introduced by the curator Nora O’ Murchú (@noraomurchu). The performance will be followed by a conversation between Man and Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor.

Visit the link in Triple Canopy’s profile to RSVP.

Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis and will be limited to the legal capacity of the venue. RSVPs do not guarantee entry, but help us better prepare for the event and keep you updated about the program.

Meet FF1, the art computer from Feral File. Made for computational art that evolves, interacts, and comes alive. Plug it into any screen, scan a QR, and play your collection or open playlists anyone can publish.

“We made FF1 because nothing else runs these works reliably.” — Sean Moss-Pultz

What to know:

Pre-orders open Sept 19 ($450)

Alumni early access Sept 17

Wave 1: 100 units, shipping Oct; more waves follow

FF1 runs FF OS + DP-1 (RSS for software art playlists: publish, subscribe, play)

🔗 in bio to join the waitlist and learn more

𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙥𝙮 by Maya Man is envy, readymade. Artist signed PDFs of the “Sad Beige Lawsuit” turn legal claims of copying a neutral aesthetic into the artwork itself. Collectors receive a hard (physical) copy of the work.

Own the aesthetic—link in bio to preview + set a reminder to collect 8/26 🔗

𝚅𝙰𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚂 is a collection of 66 found celebrity mirror selfies

each is painstakingly erased and then transformed into a video piece; runtime is determined by the subject’s Instagram following & they flicker into the frame in a pattern encoding their legal name

it goes live tomorrow 8/26 as part of @feralfile’s 𝙉𝙚𝙩 𝙀𝙫𝙞𝙡 show curated by @mackenziewdavenport along with works by absolutely brilliant artists (@lorna.mills @steviep_nyc @mayaontheinternet @dadabots_ @nnhirsch @d.a.m.j.a.n.s.k.i), each themed on one of the 7 deadly sins and how they manifest online

SHL0MS strips pride bare in 𝙑𝘼𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙎—celebrity mirror selfies reconstructed without the star, leaving only banal, absurd surroundings. Flickering voids encode names, linking online value directly to their presence.

Prepare to reflect—link in bio to preview and set a reminder to view + collect 8/26 🔗

𝙋𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙋𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙠 by Dadabots is gluttony, amplified—AI-generated phonk splintered into 50 fragments, each grotesquely oversized, devouring up to 29TB for mere minutes of sound. Indulgence reimagined as code.

Prepare for an audiovisual feast—link in bio to preview the work, learn about the presale, and set a reminder to view and collect 8/26 🔗

Steve Pikelny’s 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙑𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙭 is greed coded—live generative code riffing on YouTube abundance rituals that promise infinite wealth. Hypnotic visuals with sound and text collapse capital, spectacle, and belief.

Prepare for acquisition—link in bio to artwork previews, presale info, and to set a reminder to view and collect 8/26 🔗