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        "Mitchell F. Chan’s practice begins where an image usually ends: with the mechanisms that produce, distribute, price, and interpret it. Born in 1982 and based in Toronto, Chan works across code, physical installation, public sculpture, and gameplay. His projects often resemble accessible entertainments or technical demonstrations, yet their real material is institutional and economic structure. Ownership protocols, statistical rankings, executable instructions, and player choices become means of describing how power moves through ordinary life.",
        "This approach places Chan within a conceptual lineage while remaining attentive to the distinctive conditions of networked culture. His 2017 project *Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility* adapted Yves Klein’s inquiry into immaterial ownership for Ethereum, separating the tokenized commodity from any conventional image. Later projects transferred that investigation into generative art and games. Across these formats, Chan treats software as more than an image-making instrument. It is a medium capable of modeling causation, withholding information, assigning value, and implicating an audience in the rules it executes.",
        "> Chan’s central subject is not technology in isolation, but the conversion of rules into experience."
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      "heading": "The instruction behind the image",
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        "*LeWitt Generator Generator* was released through Art Blocks Factory on August 4, 2021 as a collection of exactly 750 unique artworks. Its title announces a recursive operation. Rather than simply generating compositions in the manner of Sol LeWitt, Chan generates architectural conditions within which a LeWitt-derived instruction can unfold. The project begins from the logic of *Wall Drawing 118*, in which randomly positioned points are connected by straight lines. Chan’s software places those relations across continuous virtual walls, then moves the viewpoint away from an orthogonal position and subjects the architecture to one of six distortion algorithms.",
        "The distinction is critical. A conventional homage might reproduce LeWitt’s visual vocabulary. Chan instead works on the chain of delegation that makes a conceptual artwork possible. LeWitt’s instructions separate conception from execution, allowing a wall drawing to be instantiated by others in different places. Chan adds another delegated layer: code generates the support, distributes the points, connects them, establishes the camera, and shapes the encounter. The artwork is therefore not a single composition but a rule-producing apparatus. Every output records one settlement among instruction, randomization, virtual architecture, and perspective.",
        "The collection’s ten selected renders reveal how strongly perception depends upon the generated support. Lines that might appear orderly on a frontal plane become dense webs, oblique fans, or spatial traps when walls bend and viewpoints shift. The image does not merely decorate architecture. Architecture becomes a variable inside the image-making process. Chan thereby complicates the familiar distinction between conceptual instruction and material realization: the apparent support is itself procedural, unstable, and authored through code."
      ]
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      "heading": "Commodity form and expressive form",
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        "The project also extends Chan’s sustained analysis of ownership. *Digital Zones* had already asked what happens when the object being exchanged is a blockchain token while the experienced artwork remains deliberately immaterial. Contemporary scholarship situates that project within the longer history of Klein’s receipts and rituals, emphasizing how the structure of exchange helps constitute the work. *LeWitt Generator Generator* approaches the same problem through abundance. Its 750 editions share one executable concept, but each resolves that concept into a distinct visual and spatial event.",
        "This tension between common system and individual output is foundational to generative art. A collector owns a particular realization, while the artist’s primary act may lie in designing a field of possibility. Chan sharpens that tension by invoking a historical practice already organized around the relation between idea and execution. The resulting collection asks where authorship resides: in LeWitt’s precedent, Chan’s reinterpretation, the program, the random seed, the platform, or the rendered edition. No single answer is adequate because the work is built from their coordination.",
        "Chan has described his recent works as systems rather than isolated images, arguing that software can create analogues for the economic and cultural structures an artist wishes to examine. This formulation clarifies why the visual appeal of *LeWitt Generator Generator* is consequential but insufficient. Its lines, colors, and warped chambers invite sustained looking, yet they also make an abstract production chain perceptible. The viewer encounters an image and, simultaneously, evidence of a procedure that exceeds it."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Games, metrics, and constrained agency",
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        "Chan’s later games expand this procedural inquiry by giving audiences choices within modeled social systems. *Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge* entered the Buffalo AKG Art Museum collection in 2022 as a software artwork, according to the museum’s annual report. Its framing connects gameplay to Reconstruction-era American history, treating the game as an analogue for social rules. In a 2024 interview, Chan discussed sketching, level design, and the translation of research into interactive form, placing his game practice in continuity with both conceptual art and public participation.",
        "*The Boys of Summer* makes quantification itself the field of play. Built around baseball, character creation, and statistical performance, it asks players to experience how apparently personal decisions become data and how hidden structures condition possible outcomes. Critical accounts have emphasized the work’s treatment of systemic bias, constrained autonomy, and the uncomfortable slippage between playful choice and predetermined inequality. Clara Che Wei Peh similarly reads the web-based game as a reflection on markets and on the conversion of identity into measurable value.",
        "These projects illuminate the stakes already present in *LeWitt Generator Generator*. A rule can enable variation while also delimiting it. Randomness can produce difference without producing freedom. Participation can feel open even when every possible action has been anticipated by a system. Chan’s art does not resolve these contradictions. It gives them operational form, permitting the audience to see or play through the relation between agency and constraint."
      ]
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    {
      "heading": "From public object to browser-based institution",
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        "Chan’s movement among public sculpture, installation, blockchain, and games is less discontinuous than it first appears. Earlier professional accounts identified him with architectural-scale technological installations and public art as well as new-media practice. Each field requires attention to how bodies enter a designed situation. A public work organizes movement through physical space; a browser work organizes attention and action through interfaces, permissions, cameras, and code.",
        "The institutional reach of that practice has grown accordingly. *Digital Zones* appeared in Christoph Büchel’s *Monte di Pietà* at Fondazione Prada in Venice in 2024, an exhibition centered on debt, property, finance, and systems of value. In 2025, Nguyen Wahed presented *Insert Coin(s)* in New York and London, bringing together Chan’s video-game works in a dialogue among conceptual art, gaming culture, and blockchain technology. These contexts demonstrate how his projects can operate as both autonomous experiences and analytical devices within broader exhibitions about economic life.",
        "What distinguishes Chan’s work is its refusal to treat digital culture as a separate realm. The blockchain transaction, the baseball statistic, the game loop, and the generative instruction are all social technologies. They classify and coordinate people, objects, expectations, and prices. In *LeWitt Generator Generator*, this argument arrives with unusual economy. A familiar conceptual instruction enters a new computational architecture, then returns as 750 distinct images. The series asks viewers to look through each image toward its conditions of possibility, and to recognize those conditions as part of the artwork itself."
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  "body_markdown": "Mitchell F. Chan’s practice begins where an image usually ends: with the mechanisms that produce, distribute, price, and interpret it. Born in 1982 and based in Toronto, Chan works across code, physical installation, public sculpture, and gameplay. His projects often resemble accessible entertainments or technical demonstrations, yet their real material is institutional and economic structure. Ownership protocols, statistical rankings, executable instructions, and player choices become means of describing how power moves through ordinary life.\n\nThis approach places Chan within a conceptual lineage while remaining attentive to the distinctive conditions of networked culture. His 2017 project *Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility* adapted Yves Klein’s inquiry into immaterial ownership for Ethereum, separating the tokenized commodity from any conventional image. Later projects transferred that investigation into generative art and games. Across these formats, Chan treats software as more than an image-making instrument. It is a medium capable of modeling causation, withholding information, assigning value, and implicating an audience in the rules it executes.\n\n> Chan’s central subject is not technology in isolation, but the conversion of rules into experience.\n\n## The instruction behind the image\n\n*LeWitt Generator Generator* was released through Art Blocks Factory on August 4, 2021 as a collection of exactly 750 unique artworks. Its title announces a recursive operation. Rather than simply generating compositions in the manner of Sol LeWitt, Chan generates architectural conditions within which a LeWitt-derived instruction can unfold. The project begins from the logic of *Wall Drawing 118*, in which randomly positioned points are connected by straight lines. Chan’s software places those relations across continuous virtual walls, then moves the viewpoint away from an orthogonal position and subjects the architecture to one of six distortion algorithms.\n\nThe distinction is critical. A conventional homage might reproduce LeWitt’s visual vocabulary. Chan instead works on the chain of delegation that makes a conceptual artwork possible. LeWitt’s instructions separate conception from execution, allowing a wall drawing to be instantiated by others in different places. Chan adds another delegated layer: code generates the support, distributes the points, connects them, establishes the camera, and shapes the encounter. The artwork is therefore not a single composition but a rule-producing apparatus. Every output records one settlement among instruction, randomization, virtual architecture, and perspective.\n\nThe collection’s ten selected renders reveal how strongly perception depends upon the generated support. Lines that might appear orderly on a frontal plane become dense webs, oblique fans, or spatial traps when walls bend and viewpoints shift. The image does not merely decorate architecture. Architecture becomes a variable inside the image-making process. Chan thereby complicates the familiar distinction between conceptual instruction and material realization: the apparent support is itself procedural, unstable, and authored through code.\n\n## Commodity form and expressive form\n\nThe project also extends Chan’s sustained analysis of ownership. *Digital Zones* had already asked what happens when the object being exchanged is a blockchain token while the experienced artwork remains deliberately immaterial. Contemporary scholarship situates that project within the longer history of Klein’s receipts and rituals, emphasizing how the structure of exchange helps constitute the work. *LeWitt Generator Generator* approaches the same problem through abundance. Its 750 editions share one executable concept, but each resolves that concept into a distinct visual and spatial event.\n\nThis tension between common system and individual output is foundational to generative art. A collector owns a particular realization, while the artist’s primary act may lie in designing a field of possibility. Chan sharpens that tension by invoking a historical practice already organized around the relation between idea and execution. The resulting collection asks where authorship resides: in LeWitt’s precedent, Chan’s reinterpretation, the program, the random seed, the platform, or the rendered edition. No single answer is adequate because the work is built from their coordination.\n\nChan has described his recent works as systems rather than isolated images, arguing that software can create analogues for the economic and cultural structures an artist wishes to examine. This formulation clarifies why the visual appeal of *LeWitt Generator Generator* is consequential but insufficient. Its lines, colors, and warped chambers invite sustained looking, yet they also make an abstract production chain perceptible. The viewer encounters an image and, simultaneously, evidence of a procedure that exceeds it.\n\n## Games, metrics, and constrained agency\n\nChan’s later games expand this procedural inquiry by giving audiences choices within modeled social systems. *Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge* entered the Buffalo AKG Art Museum collection in 2022 as a software artwork, according to the museum’s annual report. Its framing connects gameplay to Reconstruction-era American history, treating the game as an analogue for social rules. In a 2024 interview, Chan discussed sketching, level design, and the translation of research into interactive form, placing his game practice in continuity with both conceptual art and public participation.\n\n*The Boys of Summer* makes quantification itself the field of play. Built around baseball, character creation, and statistical performance, it asks players to experience how apparently personal decisions become data and how hidden structures condition possible outcomes. Critical accounts have emphasized the work’s treatment of systemic bias, constrained autonomy, and the uncomfortable slippage between playful choice and predetermined inequality. Clara Che Wei Peh similarly reads the web-based game as a reflection on markets and on the conversion of identity into measurable value.\n\nThese projects illuminate the stakes already present in *LeWitt Generator Generator*. A rule can enable variation while also delimiting it. Randomness can produce difference without producing freedom. Participation can feel open even when every possible action has been anticipated by a system. Chan’s art does not resolve these contradictions. It gives them operational form, permitting the audience to see or play through the relation between agency and constraint.\n\n## From public object to browser-based institution\n\nChan’s movement among public sculpture, installation, blockchain, and games is less discontinuous than it first appears. Earlier professional accounts identified him with architectural-scale technological installations and public art as well as new-media practice. Each field requires attention to how bodies enter a designed situation. A public work organizes movement through physical space; a browser work organizes attention and action through interfaces, permissions, cameras, and code.\n\nThe institutional reach of that practice has grown accordingly. *Digital Zones* appeared in Christoph Büchel’s *Monte di Pietà* at Fondazione Prada in Venice in 2024, an exhibition centered on debt, property, finance, and systems of value. In 2025, Nguyen Wahed presented *Insert Coin(s)* in New York and London, bringing together Chan’s video-game works in a dialogue among conceptual art, gaming culture, and blockchain technology. These contexts demonstrate how his projects can operate as both autonomous experiences and analytical devices within broader exhibitions about economic life.\n\nWhat distinguishes Chan’s work is its refusal to treat digital culture as a separate realm. The blockchain transaction, the baseball statistic, the game loop, and the generative instruction are all social technologies. They classify and coordinate people, objects, expectations, and prices. In *LeWitt Generator Generator*, this argument arrives with unusual economy. A familiar conceptual instruction enters a new computational architecture, then returns as 750 distinct images. The series asks viewers to look through each image toward its conditions of possibility, and to recognize those conditions as part of the artwork itself.",
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      "n": 1,
      "note": "Buffalo AKG identifies Chan as a Canadian artist born in 1982 and describes his code-based, physical, and digital public practice.",
      "url": "https://buffaloakg.org/person/mitchell-f-chan",
      "label": "museum biography"
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "note": "OpenSea’s Marfa interview discusses Chan’s 2017 Digital Zones and its inquiry into ownership.",
      "url": "https://opensea.io/blog/articles/live-from-marfa-in-conversation-with-mitchell-f-chan",
      "label": "interview"
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "note": "The official Art Blocks collection record gives the work’s 750-artwork count and August 4, 2021 release date.",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/lewitt-generator-generator-by-mitchell-f-chan",
      "label": "Art Blocks"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "note": "Canvas Journal analyzes Digital Zones in relation to Yves Klein, immateriality, ownership, and exchange value.",
      "url": "https://www.canvasjournal.ca/read/materially-immaterial",
      "label": "criticism"
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "note": "OpenSea’s 2025 interview presents Chan’s account of software artworks as systems for examining real economic structures.",
      "url": "https://opensea.io/blog/articles/in-conversation-with-mitchell-f-chan",
      "label": "interview"
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "note": "Buffalo AKG’s annual report documents its acquisition of Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge.",
      "url": "https://buffaloakg.org/sites/default/files/101623_annualreport_webfinal_spreads.pdf",
      "label": "museum"
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "note": "Ensemble’s interview addresses Chan’s process and his work across sculpture, conceptual art, and video games.",
      "url": "https://www.ensemble.art/blog/art-mechanics-interview-with-mitchell-chan",
      "label": "interview"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "note": "The Brooklyn Rail examines The Boys of Summer as a game about statistics, systemic inequity, and constrained choice.",
      "url": "https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/art-technology/The-Plays-the-Thing/",
      "label": "criticism"
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      "n": 9,
      "note": "LEAP considers The Boys of Summer as a web-based game that turns market mechanisms back upon themselves.",
      "url": "https://www.leapleapleap.com/2025/01/life-as-game-the-boys-of-summer-and-its-mirroring-world/",
      "label": "essay"
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      "n": 10,
      "note": "FITC’s speaker archive documents Chan’s new-media, public-art, and architectural installation practice.",
      "url": "https://fitc.ca/speaker/mitchellfchan/",
      "label": "archive"
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "note": "Fondazione Prada’s materials describe Monte di Pietà as an investigation of debt and its political and cultural power.",
      "url": "https://www.fondazioneprada.org/wp-content/uploads/Fondazione-Prada_Monte-di-Pieta_PR.pdf",
      "label": "institution"
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      "n": 12,
      "note": "Nguyen Wahed's New York exhibition page documents the first 2025 presentation of Insert Coin(s) and its Zantar-related video-game works.",
      "url": "https://nguyenwahed.com/exhibitions/18-insert-coin-s-mitchell-f.-chan/overview/",
      "label": "gallery"
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      "n": 13,
      "note": "Nguyen Wahed's London exhibition page documents the later 2025 presentation of works from Chan's Zantar trilogy.",
      "url": "https://nguyenwahed.com/exhibitions/23-insert-coin-s-mitchell-f.-chan-london/overview/",
      "label": "gallery"
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      "n": 14,
      "note": "Chan's official project walkthrough documents the continuous wall, fifty random connected points, randomized viewpoint, and six distortion algorithms.",
      "url": "https://chan.gallery/lewitt-generator-generator/",
      "label": "artist project page"
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          "note": "The official collection record identifies 750 unique artworks and an August 4, 2021 release.",
          "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/lewitt-generator-generator-by-mitchell-f-chan",
          "label": "LeWitt Generator Generator",
          "meta": "collection · 2021"
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        {
          "note": "Chan discusses systems, process, and the structures that shape experience in this Marfa conversation.",
          "url": "https://opensea.io/blog/articles/live-from-marfa-in-conversation-with-mitchell-f-chan",
          "label": "OpenSea Marfa conversation",
          "meta": "interview · 2025"
        },
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          "note": "Chan explains the economic throughline connecting Digital Zones, The Boys of Summer, and Overture.",
          "url": "https://opensea.io/blog/articles/in-conversation-with-mitchell-f-chan",
          "label": "In Conversation With Mitchell F. Chan",
          "meta": "interview · 2025"
        },
        {
          "note": "This process-focused exchange addresses sketching, public sculpture, conceptual practice, and art games.",
          "url": "https://www.ensemble.art/blog/art-mechanics-interview-with-mitchell-chan",
          "label": "Art Mechanics",
          "meta": "interview · 2024"
        },
        {
          "note": "Kaloh’s podcast surveys Chan’s conceptual and digital game practice.",
          "url": "https://www.kaloh.xyz/p/digital-art-games-mitchell-f-chan",
          "label": "Conceptual and digital art games",
          "meta": "interview · 2023"
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          "note": "The Brooklyn Rail analyzes The Boys of Summer through play, quantification, inequity, and constrained agency.",
          "url": "https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/art-technology/The-Plays-the-Thing/",
          "label": "The Play’s the Thing",
          "meta": "criticism · 2023"
        },
        {
          "note": "LEAP reads The Boys of Summer as a game that reflects the market’s own tools and values.",
          "url": "https://www.leapleapleap.com/2025/01/life-as-game-the-boys-of-summer-and-its-mirroring-world/",
          "label": "Life as Game",
          "meta": "criticism · 2025"
        },
        {
          "note": "Wade Wallerstein examines the work’s combination of video game, tokenized portraits, and marketplace performance.",
          "url": "https://paragraph.com/%40wildxyz/the-boys-of-summer-an-in-depth-look",
          "label": "The Boys of Summer: An In-Depth Look",
          "meta": "criticism · 2023"
        },
        {
          "note": "Canvas Journal situates Digital Zones within histories of immateriality, exchange, and photographic value.",
          "url": "https://www.canvasjournal.ca/read/materially-immaterial",
          "label": "Materially Immaterial",
          "meta": "criticism · 2024"
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          "note": "Buffalo AKG’s annual report documents Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge in the museum collection.",
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          "label": "Buffalo AKG annual report",
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          "note": "Fondazione Prada’s release outlines Christoph Büchel’s Monte di Pietà and its investigation of debt.",
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          "label": "Monte di Pietà",
          "meta": "exhibition · 2024"
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          "note": "Rhizome presents Chan’s argument that contemporary life is increasingly represented by game loops.",
          "url": "https://cdn.rhizome.org/events/artwrld-mitchell-chan/",
          "label": "To Reflect A World Where All Life Is Work",
          "meta": "talk · 2026"
        }
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          "note": "Nguyen Wahed documents the New York presentation of Insert Coin(s), which joined Chan's new Zantar-related video-game works with selected earlier pieces.",
          "url": "https://nguyenwahed.com/exhibitions/18-insert-coin-s-mitchell-f.-chan/overview/",
          "label": "Insert Coin(s), New York",
          "meta": "exhibition · 2025"
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          "note": "Nguyen Wahed documents the London presentation of new works from Chan's Zantar trilogy.",
          "url": "https://nguyenwahed.com/exhibitions/23-insert-coin-s-mitchell-f.-chan-london/overview/",
          "label": "Insert Coin(s), London",
          "meta": "exhibition · 2025"
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          "note": "Nguyen Wahed’s artwork index lists examples from Chan’s physical and digital practice.",
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          "label": "Mitchell F. Chan artworks",
          "meta": "gallery archive · 2025"
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          "note": "Chan's project walkthrough explains the generated wall, randomized viewpoint, and six distortion algorithms behind LeWitt Generator Generator.",
          "url": "https://chan.gallery/lewitt-generator-generator/",
          "label": "LeWitt Generator Generator",
          "meta": "artist project · 2021"
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          "note": "Chan’s essay explains his approach to shaders, aesthetics, generative processes, and idea-driven software art.",
          "url": "https://medium.com/%40mitchellfchan/web3-buddha-a-very-opinionated-explainer-of-how-i-create-think-about-aesthetics-in-the-age-of-ai-7135e1dbb0fa",
          "label": "Web3 Buddha",
          "meta": "essay · 2023"
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          "note": "The Blockchain Experience episode features Chan discussing his new-media and blockchain practice.",
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          "meta": "podcast · 2023"
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          "note": "FITC’s archive documents Chan’s Toronto new-media activity and architectural-scale public-art work.",
          "url": "https://fitc.ca/speaker/mitchellfchan/",
          "label": "Mitchell F. Chan",
          "meta": "talk archive · 2013"
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          "note": "Fondazione Prada’s catalogue page identifies the extensive Monte di Pietà publication.",
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          "label": "Monte di Pietà catalogue",
          "meta": "catalogue · 2024"
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          "label": "Raster",
          "meta": "profile · ongoing"
        },
        {
          "note": "Buffalo AKG's artist page identifies Chan as a Canadian artist born in 1982 and records his code-based and public works.",
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          "label": "Buffalo AKG",
          "meta": "museum profile · ongoing"
        },
        {
          "note": "Ensemble’s creator profile links Chan with Beggar’s Belief, Digital Zones, and LeWitt Generator Generator.",
          "url": "https://www.ensemble.art/profile/0x4BF3805B23c99f8E0a5797E86fd0232A04a2a629",
          "label": "Mitchell Chan",
          "meta": "profile · 2024"
        },
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          "note": "Wildxyz’s collection study connects The Boys of Summer with Chan’s earlier Digital Zones, LeWitt, and Homer projects.",
          "url": "https://wild.xyz/mitchell-f-chan/the-boys-of-summer/",
          "label": "The Boys of Summer",
          "meta": "project archive · 2023"
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