Curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles. Co-founded by @postanika and @margaretonline.
Joined January 2025
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💍 During Frieze Week, anonymous artist @madebyoona symbolically wed David, a TfL CCTV Data Manager she's never met, at Shoreditch Arts Club.
It was the finale of "Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story", her seven-year project curated by @postanika of @_second_guess. Each of its eight chapters now lives as a digital artwork on @tezos via objkt.
Organised by The Second-Guess, @hervisions, @shoreditcharts_ and Frieze Connect, and supported by @artontezos_ ↓
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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_
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Art on Tezos Friday Recap 🔔
→ "nephomancer" by @mishaderidder × @miragenesi opened at @MovingImageNYC, part of the MoMI × Tezos Foundation programming. On view until December 6. ☁️🔮
→ @objktcom launches objkt social, a social layer built on the AT Protocol behind Bluesky. Follow artists and collectors, join group chats and collect straight from a post. 💬🎨
→ @IdaHerself opened invites to @tezcity, "the social home of Tezos art", with live generative works in the feed and one-tap collecting. 🏙️🖤
→ "VISUAL VOICE" by Elisabeth Sweet took place at The Adobe Room in Marfa, curated by @kikanicolela and @postanika of objkt and presented by The Bearded Travelers. 🌵🖼️
→ @ARTANDVAULT opened Season Three of ART VOICES with @kev_esh, the first VAULTED Season One acquisition artist, on AI, intimacy and what makes us human. Moderated by @JustinGilanyi. 🎙️🤖
→ Round 2 of VAULTED Season One is open to still and moving-image works minted on Tezos, with @artontezos_ as acquisition partner. Apply by December 1. 🗝️🖼️
→ @MadDolphNFT opened the #26POV call for 26 artists to build an A–Z collection and a shared virtual exhibition with @TeiaCommunity. Submissions close November 9. 🔤🖼️
→ @cubedekant announces open call for "JAROTENIYA: Possible Lands #2". Apply by November 10. 🗺️📣
→ @fakewhale_xyz announces the artists selected from its open call for "ART MARKET 2026" on objkt. 📋🎨
→ @accomparts' next auction "OH NO! MY CHILD MAKES DIGITAL ART. WHAT DO I DO NOW?" drops on objkt on November 10, with 22 artists imagining their own child making digital art. Curated by @skomra. 🚪🖍️
→ @TezosCommons published October's 'ART'icle of the Month. 📰🎨
→ objkt published OBJKTOR interviews with Kento Season 01 "Web Nostalgia" artists @adiw_galih, winner of the @kentocards open call, and @cybermistic. 🃏🕸️
→ "Solarchi Curates // 28" by @Solarchi_ is out, guest curated by @gulbakanozge. 🌞🖼️
→ @617gallery's third annual #MidnightMass Halloween event passed 200 submissions, and @TheTezos played Tezos Art Quest #7 on its curation. 🕯️🎃
→ The Tezos Community Spotlight featured Tezonia by @webidente, a small town you can walk through to find wallets, art, builders and more. 🏘️🧭
Don't Miss:
→ "The Ceremony: OONA & DAVID" by OONA, two moving-image works from the wedding performance that closes "Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story". Curated by @_second_guess. 💍📹
→ The October "Texture" auctions by ACTZ, curated by @spike_0124, @mindal_nft, @DV_gh0st and @HashSosaHash. 🧱🔨
→ New on @AleatoryArt: "Ghostober" by @leftsilverhand, the platform's first fully on-chain layered PNG project, and "The Threshold" by @TheGOATofTezos. 👻🌱
→ "Neon Weather" by @My_3y3, a fully on-chain generator of animated SVG colour storms. 🌈🌧️
→ @_GLOWA_'s daily artworks on objkt - now past 80 pieces minted. 🗓️🎨
→ New on @dropdotart:
- Cuts by TOCA ME
- Reyschach by @reyrove
- E͕͕n͕͕t͕͕a͕͕n͕͕g͕͕l͕͕e͕͕m͕͕e͕͕n͕͕t͕͕S͕ by @1000Landz
Art pictured (left to right): @HenriqueAugurs, @daniloxhema, @speciesofvalue, @MetiPhotography, @csrsnt, @tocame_munich, @Surreal_Beam, @fabriziobrarez, @madebyoona
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✦ Release Highlight ✦
What would David say if he could talk?
“The Ceremony: OONA & DAVID” by @madebyoona closes “Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story” with two moving-image works.
Curated by @_second_guess ↓
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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.
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WHERE IS THE INTERNET NOW? | ARAM BARTHOLL
For more than 20 years, the artist has taken online art into physical spaces. Now that AI may soon browse the internet for us, he asks what will be left of the web if we stop visiting it
By Anika Meier (@postanika)
rightclicksave.com/article/w…
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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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first time being a bridesmaid and what better time than for @madebyoona's wedding?! 🌹♥️
what a day and thank you for the invite!
from the very first time i met OONA back in 2021 i knew there was something special about her, increidbly proud of how she has evolved her practice and her project Dear David.
congratulations to OONA, @postanika (maid of honour), the @_second_guess and all involved.
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✦ WHAT'S MOVING ✦
The Ceremony: OONA & DAVID
by @madebyoona
Curated by @_second_guess | Powered by @artontezos_
After I Do — collected for 5,200 ꜩ.
If David Could Talk — collected for 2,800 ꜩ.
Both acquired by an anonymous collector ahead of the release at 6 PM CET.
Two videos from a wedding performance exploring surveillance, consent, and the relationship between watcher and watched.
↓
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✦ AVAILABLE ON OBJKT ✦
The Ceremony: OONA & DAVID
by @madebyoona
Already half sold out during pre-sale.
Two works exploring surveillance, consent, and the relationship between watcher and watched.
Curated by @_second_guess | Powered by @artontezos_
After I Do ↓
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I recently went to a wedding where the groom was a CCTV system. 💍📹
During Frieze Week, anonymous artist @madebyoona married David, a TfL CCTV Data Manager she's never met, at Shoreditch Arts Club. It was the finale of Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story, her seven-year project curated by @postanika of @_second_guess . OONA built it from Tube footage of herself that she requested by law.
The project asks what it means to be watched just for walking through a city. Each of the eight chapters now exists as a digital artwork on @tezos , with its ownership recorded publicly. Collectors can own a piece of the love story, and OONA decides how it’s released and sold.
I was honoured to moderate the panel on the night. Thank you to OONA, Anika, The Second-Guess, @_hervisions_ , @shoreditcharts_ and Frieze Connect.
Photos:
Jennifer Moyes
@BrekkyGoody
Anika Meier
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WHAT'S MOVING ↗
✦ *amalgré* by @speciesofvalue — 1,800 ꜩ
✦ *PUER AETERNUS* by @ernestoasch — 500 ꜩ
✦ *Cat Math* from Cached Creatures — 300 ꜩ
Explore what's collecting on objkt ↓
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Calling all artists, a new grant from @rhizome supported by @larvalabs: PERMANENCE.
This is a very "Matt & John" brief ;) Larva tries to make everything they do truly durable. If almost everything around the work disappeared (the website, the company, the software, and maybe even the infrastructure it depended on), they still try to provide a way for the work to persevere.
There is no perfect solution and every approach will have flaws. Blockchains like Ethereum offer one answer: convince a lot of people to care about something and offer incentives to keep preserving data together.
Some solutions could rely on a physical approach. Think of the Rosetta Stone, using only a type of local granite, it retained a way to unlock the information it contained. It also illustrates that physical and informational durability are two different aspects of this challenge.
Now it's your turn, make something permanent.
Apply by November 20!
microgrants.rhizome.org
⛳️Rhizome microgrants are open! Apply by November 20 for grants between $500- 1500!
We invite proposals in the following categories: PERMANENCE, in partnership with @larvalabs,🛠️MISUSE, ✋HANDMADE & 💬CO-OP. Visit microgrants.rhizome.org for more details + to apply!
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↺ 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. ↓
🔜
»The Ceremony: OONA & David«
Two videos from their wedding performance confront the power dynamics of surveillance, consent, and the relationship between watcher and watched.
The End. 💌
28 October 2026 • 6 PM CET
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❖ Top Weekly Sales ❖
1 ‣ PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH by @Surreal_Beam
⇢ sold to @FlyingBeagle_ for 3,000 XTZ.
2 ‣ Two artworks from Misalignment Training by @malpractice_net, Curated by @_second_guess:
✦ Sockpuppet — sold to @DagieDee for 1,500 XTZ.
✦ It's Just a Simulation — sold to @DagieDee for 1,500 XTZ.
3 ‣ LULA by @ORELHAFRITA
⇢ sold to an anonymous collector for 1,300 oXTZ.
4 ‣ I feel like this sometime by @gulbakanozge
⇢ sold to @jeantimoine for 1,250 XTZ.
5 ‣ Three artworks collected for 1,000 XTZ each:
✦ warm embrace1 by @daniloxhema ⇢ sold to an anonymous collector.
✦ Misalignment Training - Covering Its Tracks by @malpractice_net ⇢ sold to @DagieDee. Curated by @_second_guess.
✦ Football on TV by Henrique Cartaxo ⇢ sold to @FlyingBeagle_. From The World Cup and The Image Machines, an @objktlabs Residency Release.
6 ‣ fluxus_01a by @ex_mortal_
⇢ sold to @Absurdeity for 805 oXTZ.
7 ‣ Every Second and Everywhere by @madebyoona from Dear David, I Do. Do You? Curated by @_second_guess.
⇢ sold to @fndzionaversano for 650 XTZ.
✳ Congratulations to this week's artists and collectors.
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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!
