Investigating Decentralized Action in Art
Investigating Decentralized Action in Art was designed for Baltan Laboratories, a cultural institution based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The publication is the result of ARTeCHÓ, a European initiative connecting five institutions to support artists exploring art, crypto art, blockchain, and NFTs. It explores how AI and NFTs intersect with art, economy, and politics, questioning their sustainability and equity.
Through essays and artworks, the book challenges centralized systems, colonial legacies, and extractive capitalism, proposing decentralized, autonomous alternatives for a fairer digital future and new forms of collective knowledge and creativity. It was edited by Marlou van der Cruijsen, Lorenzo Gerbi, and Julia Kassyk, and published by Lecturis.
The design is built upon the concept of digital brutalism, to recall the material foundation (the hardware) that sustains any software. Harber and ABC Monument Grotesk, along the material qualities of the book, contribute in creating such “digital-brutalist” aesthetic.
CRSL also designed the visual identity of the related exhibition Decentralized Futures, held at Koelhuis in Eindhoven, during Dutch Design Week 2024, see this previous post.
