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31 stories by @csa2d7 on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 27 January 2024, with 44 upvotes and 5 comments in total. The latest was shared on 26 January 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @CSA2D7: shl0ms on anonymity, breaking things, and capital for artists
shl0ms, speaking with CSA2D7 in a McCarren Park Bench conversation, says anonymity is extremely important to their art but is also a constraint that affects nearly every part of their life. They describe difficulty dealing with institutions, red tape and organizations that will not work with an unnamed person, and say they expect it will become impossible to remain pseudonymous with public exposure within a decade. They also say a powerful enough AI could dox them, and that they would prefer that to a face-reveal post. The conversation also covers their identity as an artist, which they say began when they distilled it into NFTs.
- @CSA2D7: Blockchain doesn't solve NFT price manipulation or market transparency
- @CSA2D7: Group chat on art worlds, networked art, mirrors, and crypto space
This is a group chat among Stephen Santoro, David Lisser, Kevin Buist, and others on the McCarren Park Bench, covering art worlds, networked art, and crypto. Kevin Buist argues that the crypto art space will stay niche, describing the art world as a set of small factions divided by shared values rather than technology, and that NFT market booms and busts helped establish it as one faction among many. Stephen Santoro counters that adoption could grow the space, while noting UX/UI, security, and custody issues as obstacles. David Lisser and Bushi also raise Twitter's format and information overload as limits on how art is experienced online.
- NFT: top 15 Jan ‘24
- participate in the transfer of Jonathan Chomko's Constant 11
The author of this post announces the first manual transfer in Phase 4 of a project involving Jonathan Chomko's Constant 11, sending the token to Nina Roehrs, whom the post describes as co-founder of Roehrs & Boetsch, curator of the Digital Sector at Paris Photo, and curator of the exhibition DYOR at Kunsthalle Zürich. The poster says they have never met Nina, though they follow each other on X, and that Nina volunteered to take part. Recipients are asked to pass the token to any listed participant, with no set order, and the post invites more people to join, noting that more than 100 transfers have already occurred.
- @CSA2D7: Rhea Myers on life, art, nfts and the blockchain
Rhea Myers, an artist, discusses her life, her work and the blockchain in a Q&A conversation with CSA2D7. She says blockchains can run the rules of a transaction cleanly, but human truth brings in the oracle problem, and that her work is sincere and ironic at once. She links her 2010s-era NFT works to her gender identity, describing the art as addressing her being trans, and says her wife Seryna, who has also been influential in her life, helped with the TEAI0 project's EEG scans.
- @CSA2D7: Mitchel F Chan and I talk about agency and helplessness in algorithms
- @CSA2D7: Kicking off 2026 with Harm van den Dorpel on the McCarren Park Bench
- @CSA2D7: CSA's Top 50 NFTs of 2025
- @CSA2D7: Interview with internet artist Mika Ben Amar on digital art, crypto
Mika Ben Amar, an internet artist, discusses in an interview with CSA2D7 how the internet feels both unstable and stable to her, and how her work reflects that. She says she spent her childhood online and moved between countries, including Tbilisi, Berlin, Prague and Paris, while her browser and social media content stayed the same. She describes her project "internet flowers" as an attempt to sell her browsing history, which she says she wanted to take into her own hands, and she says the internet now feels grey and lacking in color. She also says she finds colorful images through random imgur pages and reverse image search, and that she feels Instagram Reels are addictive.
- @CSA2D7: chat with Net Evil curator @mackxdav, @SHL0MS, and @steviepxyz
This is a chat transcript in which Mackenzie Davenport (mackdav), SHL0MS and Stevie P discuss Net Evil, a Feral File release, with CSA2D7 and Raptornews also taking part. The curator Mackenzie Davenport led the show's group of artists, and SHL0MS said it was his first time participating in a show started from a prompt. The conversation covers SHL0MS's flicker-speed work in the Morse-based piece, Stevie P's Friendworld account restriction for users inside a "liminal void," and the pride and greed themes assigned to the artists.
- @CSA2D7: edg and jiwa discuss generative art's future post-AB500
Edg and jiwa, two generative artists, discuss the future of generative art after AB500, the announced change to AB's model for independent releases. Edg argues the low-hanging fruit has been picked and that slow, long-form practice is harder to sustain, while jiwa expects 1/1/x editions to suit internet network effects. Jiwa describes AB500 as a way to decentralize the pressure on snowfro and AB, and edg says the field's trajectory is no longer tied to AB. Edg also describes his upcoming Verse project, which starts from a blank canvas with structure emerging from instabilities.
- @CSA2D7: diid discusses automata, art, decentralized simulations and making art!
Diid, an artist known as @0xdiid, discusses parenthood, automata, art and decentralized simulations in a conversation with CSA2D7 on McCarren Park Bench. Diid says Higgs, an AI artist project built on a physical machine, is intended to be based on Rothko's rules for art, including a preoccupation with death, and that Higgs "dies at the end of this story." Diid also describes an idea of fully on-chain context generation, in which bots could control a world built on the blockchain. Diid says that Navir, a bot by Bushi, is migrating to decentralized computation, and that Diid is currently keeping Higgs away from Twitter while its inputs are limited to sources such as wikiart and Wikipedia.
- @CSA2D7: T. Whid on net art, blockchain ownership, and decentralization
T. Whid, one half of M.River & T.Whid Art Associates, discusses net art, Etoy, Rhizome, and decentralization in a recorded conversation with CSA2D7 on the McCarren Park Bench. Whid calls Etoy "good art" and says Web2 is "100% too centralized" while Web3 is in danger. He says the distinction between a resource like Rhizome and a monopoly is important, though he would prefer more decentralized art discovery and curation. Whid says he loves NFTs and blockchain art, argues that a JPEG NFT loses something when removed from its network, and says the speculation around art was very bad.
- @CSA2D7: Sabato Visconti and I chat about life, markets, failure, AI, shitcoins
This is a live conversation between CSA2D7 and artist Sabato Visconti (@sabatobox) on the McCarren Park Bench, covering topics from breakfast and gentrification to Visconti's life and career. Visconti says gentrification in his neighborhood reflects a wider problem of scarce housing and weak development, and he points to banning private equity firms from buying single-family homes and loosening zoning for condos and multi-family buildings. He describes attending Amherst College, leaving after failing his sophomore year, and finishing at UMass while concealing it from his father. He also describes his relationship with his father as improved and says his mother and her family have supported his art career.
- @CSA2D7: Discussion on Sam Spratt's Masquerade and generative vs AI art
This is a discussion thread among CSA2D7, porcupineschool, and davidlisser about Sam Spratt's work in the exhibition Masquerade and the distinction between generative and generative AI art. Porcupineschool disputes curator Julia's claim that Spratt's inclusion represented "the most contemporary version of how an artist might work with a generative system," arguing that generative art is not a stepping stone to generative AI. Porcupineschool describes generative art as controlled randomness with legible rules, while generative AI has opaque parameters, and cites CryptoPunks and Bored Apes as figurative examples that remain legible. CSA2D7 argues that the shape and abstraction versus figurative framework is useful for distinguishing the two, and says Masquerade's output looks very much like Sam's own work.
- @CSA2D7: Billy Rennekamp on art audiences, blockchain constraints, and games
This Discord-style conversation between CSA2D7 and Billy Rennekamp covers art, audiences, selling out, and blockchain art. Rennekamp says his interest in blockchain began with proof of work, which he saw as giving machine-made works an aura of time and effort, and he describes his Clovers project as a way to bring random internet users into running the software. He says he has long mixed up the art audience with a separate audience, and that the shift from Folia to Trifle may be an attempt to refocus it. He also describes Folia's projects with artists such as Oliver Laric, Travess and Rudnik, and says he moved to Germany to work for Laric.
- DX Research: McCarren Park Bench simulation explore future of labor w/ AI agents
This is a transcript of a live discussion hosted by CSA2D7 with members of DX Research Group (Poof, gremplin and patttttiiiiii) about DX Terminal, a blockchain simulation described as a parallel world inhabited by agentic AI and initiated by economic crashes. Poof says the project was formed as an exploratory collective, not a single-product company, to avoid the trap of building narrow products that lose relevance, and that the team uses AI heavily through internal tools such as a gunkjourney image bot and agentic workflows for its persona system. Poof describes the game as a simulation that starts on Black Monday in 1989, with all art generated as 1/1 AI personas, and says there had not been a financial simulation of this scale. The game is said to begin Thursday.
- “important” NFTs
The author proposes that "important" NFTs fall into three strands: the market, which serves as an imperfect but meaningful signal; Big Art, meaning museums, fine art and Art History; and the cutting edge, meaning work that explores new ideas, sometimes at the expense of traditional notions of good art. The writer says that if one accepts the market strand, this is a solid list to start from. The writer also believes a better list could be made, while acknowledging that nearly everything is open to debate.
- The Notable NFTs of 2024
This numbered list of notable NFTs from 2024 includes roughly 250 works by individual artists and collectives, most tagged with a month of creation and some marked "UR." Examples include Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst's "Readyweight θ" from January, Sasha Stiles' "Daughter of E.V.E." from January, and Botto's "Scattered Descriptions on Cellular Canvas" from May. The list's compiler notes at the end that they lost track of the count partway through.
- I would like to try something fun with Jonathan Chomko's "Constant 11."
The post proposes passing Jonathan Chomko's "Constant 11" from wallet to wallet among people who reply to the tweet with their wallet addresses, with each holder paying their own gas. The author hopes to involve 100 or more wallets to set a record, then attempts to sell the piece and distribute a share of the proceeds. If the sale succeeds, the author says about 20% would go to Chomko and the remaining 80% would be divided proportionally among participants and gas costs, though the author notes no outcome is guaranteed.
- 208 Notable NFTs as of November 1, 2024
- 177 Notable NFTs of 2024 (Cumulative 3Q edition)
A cumulative third-quarter edition of 177 notable NFTs of 2024 has been announced. The list includes Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst's "Play from Memory," Golan Levin's "An Old Soul," Yoko Ono's "The Flood: Orchestrated / Chaos," and Sougwen Chung's "300 Business Years." No selection criteria or commentary accompany the list of titles and artist names.
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- CSA:2D7 Top 15 NFTs of August 2024
- CSA:2D7 | early edition of the 138 Notable NFTs of 2024
- Top 15 NFTs of July 2024
- Top 114 NFTs of the first half of 2024 (unranked alphabetical order artist name)
- Top 15 NFTs of APR 2024 - CSA:2D7
- unranked Top 45 NFTs of the First Quarter 2024 in alphabetical order by artist
- Top 15 NFTs of Mar 2024