Released on the blockchain in phases, Remembrance of Things Future is engineered and curated by Cactoid Labs, conceived and created in support of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Remembrance of Things Future includes historic limited editioned and generative artworks by Monica Rizzolli, Ix Shells, Jen Stark, Emily Xie, Sarah Zucker, 0xDEAFBEEF, William Mapan, Tyler Hobbs and other digital practitioners.
Following a long tradition of artist benefit editions created in collaboration with the museum, a percentage of proceeds from these new digital editions goes to support LACMA’s Art & Technology Lab, which gives grants to artists experimenting in interdisciplinary dialogues across art and industry.
Remembrance of Things Future coincides with LACMA’s exhibition Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, a pivotal reappraisal of art in the age of the mainframe, organized by Leslie Jones, Curator of Prints and Drawings. Opening February 12, 2023 and running through July 2, 2023, Coded examines the critical, but long-overlooked relationship between early computer art and broader art movements of the time, such as Op Art, Fluxus, Conceptual Art and Minimalism. Following on the heels of the groundbreaking artists featured in Coded such as Vera Molnar and Manfred Mohr, the contemporary artists in Remembrance of Things Future point us back to the past and forward into the unknown.
