Category: Investigación
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Post-NFT Digital Art. Infrastructure, Archive, and Recognition III
Recognition. Institutions, market and canon. This entry concludes the series. Entry I examined provenance—what renders a digital work identifiable as a work—through the case of the artist romainiti and the closure of Foundation. Entry II addressed persistence—what is required for a work to endure and continue...
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Post-NFT Digital Art. Infrastructure, Archive, and Recognition II
Persistence. Archive, custody and the duration of digital art. This research examines, from the perspective of curatorial practice and collecting, what remains of tokenised digital art following the collapse of the speculative NFT market. Entry I examined the first dimension of the triadic framework—provenance, persistence and recognition—through the case of the artist romainiti and...
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Post-NFT Digital Art. Infrastructure, Archive, and Recognition I
Provenance. The Romainiti case. Introduction to the series. This research examines, from the perspective of curatorial practice and collecting, what remains of tokenised digital art following the collapse of the speculative NFT market. The series is developed across three entries that articulate three dimensions of a single problem: provenance, persistence and recognition. The present text, the first of...
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Structural surplus as an aesthetic category — working paper, April 2026
Art has historically been conceived through the lens of the object. Even when it has attempted to shift towards experience, action, or process, it has continued to require an anchor point: something that can be identified, delimited, and recognised as a work. That anchor has been useful. It is beginning to prove insufficient. A significant portion of contemporary practice already…
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Structural Surplus — towards a relational ontology of artistic practice
Art has historically been conceived through the lens of the object. Even when it has attempted to shift towards experience, action, or process, it has continued to require an anchor point: something that can be identified, delimited, and recognised as a work. That anchor has been useful. It is beginning to prove insufficient. A significant portion of contemporary practice no longer…
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Conchi, my friend
There are individuals who do not seek to occupy space; they transform it. Concha Barquero Artés was one such person. A filmmaker, researcher, and educator, she consistently worked from a clear ethical standpoint: cinema not as spectacle, but as a tool for memory, awareness, and social cohesion. Those of us who knew her understand that her perspective was as rigorous and discreet as it was gentle and…
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The body is not a tradition: zero tolerance for female genital mutilation
Today, 6 February, marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. This is neither a symbolic commemoration nor merely another date on the human rights calendar. It serves as an uncomfortable reminder of the extent to which the bodies of women and girls remain, in far too many contexts, a territory of control,…