Mannay 🌹
@mannay

❏ Full time Artist ❐ Naive (@0xnaives) ❐ Part time dev & investor ❒ @ProjectHalycon / @weplrl ❒ @GrailersDAO

 France
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Joined September 2013
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The Hangover

there's been a weird mood around crypto art lately. maybe it's because enough time has passed since 2020-21 that we can finally look back at it with unbiased eyes. artists, collectors, platforms, and

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Monet Wasn't AI. The Context Was.

Tuesday night. Finished eating some ramen. Half-bored. @SHL0MS does something very simple and very annoying, which is usually where good internet art begins. i'm in for the show. He posts an image on

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What We Carry

Passion. The word comes from suffering. We've forgotten. Passio, from the Latin pati: to undergo, to endure. Passion is not something you do—it's something done to you. The artist doesn't create, he

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On Error as Revelation

When, as an artist or collector, one discusses generative art with more traditional artists or collectors, there is often a form of contempt, stubborn as a weed, that clings to the very idea of this

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Before the Epitaph

What people reproach artists for is being alive. Welcome to the cultural court of assizes. Guilty of having a pulse, of changing one’s mind, of missing a Tuesday, of daring on a Thursday. The living

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The Last Superstition

Inspiration is this whimsical visitor who keeps you waiting for months before showing up at 3 in the morning, when you're in your underwear in front of the fridge eating shredded cheese straight from

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Digital Rebound: 2020-2025

Spring 2020—March, to be precise. Post-apocalyptic scenes in the supermarkets. Inside, it’s Mad Max. Battering-ram trolleys and heavy artillery: people claw at noodles like relics of a saint, pounce

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Yves Klein or The Refusal to Compromise

Paris, 1955. In a white room at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, a young artist unveils a canvas of pure, blazing orange, smooth and entirely devoid of motif. No figures appear on its surface, no

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Friction and the Integrity of Art

You stand in a remote desert basin, dusk gathering, silence broken only by your own breath. Before you stretches Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field – hundreds of stainless steel poles planted in an

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A Reading of Masquerade

« The mask is not a lie but a scar. A fossil of the self I sold. Beneath it, my face a map of debt, ledger of crude-tooled apologies to the Hive. I'm the clashing kinfolk, the gilded fail son

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The Cultural Soul of Memecoins

Let's set the record straight from the beginning. On one side, memecoins—irreverent, born from the collective heartbeat of internet culture. On the other, shitcoins—transient, opportunistic, devoid of

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The Whispering Ouroboros: When AI Begins to Devour Its Own Tail

Here's a theory: the problem with artificial intelligence, I think, is that it has begun to dream in circles. Not the kind of dreams we have—fragmented, illogical, stained with coffee and subway

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