“Unsigned” week 7 just went live on Objkt

https://objkt.com/collection/KT1Hm9Ybeti27gPQMCbAGYAskymnbYcuuqHD

Unsigned Week 8 releases today at 5pm CET 🔌

Ayla El Moussa
Ada Ada Ada
Sarah Zucker
Carla Gannis
Faith Holland
Sophie Kahn
Angie Taylor
Ann Ahoy

https://objkt.com/collection/KT1Hm9Ybeti27gPQMCbAGYAskymnbYcuuqHD

October 5 : “Unknown Sitter”
Common title, rare circumstances
The next lot of @operator_______ Privacy Collection
VerticalCrypto Art and Tezos

Pictured here: Unknown Sitter (1865) by Pierre-Louis Pierson

Hi everyone! Tomorrow you’ll find out what these historical Unknown Sitters have to do with the next lot of the Privacy Collection. 🗝

Historically, the subject of a portrait who could not be identified would be called an ‘Unknown Sitter.’

During Privacy Portraits in London, one anomalous polaroid developed with no visible subject. 

A contemporary #UnknownSitter has emerged.

Lot 02 of the Privacy Collection. 1/1.

Auction starts Oct 5 6pm CET on Objkt.

20 hour countdown has started 🔌

Unknown Sitter (Privacy Collection - Lot 02)
Digital + Physical
1 of 1

Auction ends Sat 15 Oct 6pm CET

Bid on Objkt:
https://objkt.com/auction/e/ymP0kOkm

The reserve has been met for Unknown Sitter.

2 hour countdown ⏱ Auction ends at 6PM CET / 5PM UK.

Objkt link: https://objkt.com/auction/e/ymP0kOkm

Who is in Paris this week? We will be speaking October 23 as part of the Tezos Speaker Series ▪️

Line Scanner (Herbert W. Franke Tribute Edition) 🔷

Our contribution to the Herbert W. Franke Tribute is being released in 2 days. This piece is very special to us as it is an excerpt from the first work we ever created together, called Line Scanner (2016). It merges projection, animation, improvised performance, film 🎬 Edition of 10.

25% of sales go to the Foundation Herbert W. Franke for the digitization of his archive.

Public sale starts Friday at 9am CET (1eth) but we are allowing 3 pieces to be reserved by Privacy Key holders & our Operator community for a pre-sale price of .8eth. Please send a DM with your wallet address if you are interested in reserving one.

Operator.la/line-scanner-hwf

All 3 are of the Line Scanner pre-sale editions are reserved. The other 7 will be available tomorrow (Oct 21) 9am CET.

To those in Paris, Ania and Dejha will be speaking as part of Paris+ Art Basel (Tezos Speaker Series) October 23rd at 10am. Please say hello! 📞🖤

https://tezos.com/events/paris-plus

Excellent article about women in the history of digital art (and computing more broadly):
https://csalateral.org/issue/2/up-for-grabs-early-digital-art-taylor/

LA 🔌 You’re invited to join us for “Hello, Operator” an artist talk and evening gathering December 20th at 7pm hosted by NFTuesday in partnership with Vellum and StandardVision.

Interesting and important article about Lensa AI (which you might have seen populating your Instagram feeds).

https://hyperallergic.com/785759/read-this-before-you-jump-on-the-lensa-magic-avatar-trend/?fbclid=PAAabE_PYLpuCveQO_aXLWmi6YwTOEULjUtFJX0cimlKFxz5O0KobxZEh2UpI

Food for thought 💭

We’re arriving in LA today. Hope to see some of you at our talk tomorrow night hosted by NFTuesday and Vellum 🖤

Operator archive 📁 This video gives a glimpse into the last 6 years of our experiential art practice (for those of you who we just connected to this year). If you’re in LA would love to meet you tonight at our talk! 7pm at El Cid. We’ll be discussing how we approached integrating the blockchain into our work.