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Jack Butcher: links

Selected sources situate Jack Butcher’s practice across Art Blocks, interviews, criticism, exhibitions, auctions, and digital archives.

21 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

The official collection record confirms 500 unique Gas Wars artworks and the 17 September 2025 release date.

Gas Wars collection collection · 2025

Art Blocks explains the project’s survivorship-bias concept and time-limited release mechanics.

Coming to Art Blocks Curated essay · 2025

Butcher’s current project record details the simulations and their relationship between price, damage, and information.

Gas Wars project · 2025

Artist project records

Butcher’s current Checks record documents the open edition, migration to onchain originals, collector-directed composition, and burn mechanics.

Checks project · 2023

Butcher’s current Opepen record describes the 16,000-token protocol, 80 canvases, artist contributions, and collector consensus.

Opepen Edition protocol · 2023-current

Interviews

OpenSea discusses Gas Wars as an experiment in damage, decision-making, and collector behavior.

In Conversation With Jack Butcher interview · 2025

The Profile addresses Butcher’s influences, consistency, visual identity, and product practice.

Idea-Generation, Consistency, and Going Viral interview · 2021

The Business of Business traces the transition from advertising burnout to Visualize Value.

Visualizing Value interview · 2021

Press and criticism

nft now examines Checks as a networked response to social-media verification.

How Checks Challenges NFTs criticism · 2023

nft now considers Butcher’s adoption of generative art across several projects.

Learning to Love Generative Art profile · 2023

Museums and institutions

Picto documents Latent’s presentation at Paris Photo and its dialogue between AI and photographic printing.

Jack Butcher at Paris Photo institution · 2024

Galleries and exhibitions

Butcher documents Work, Luck, Play at Art Basel Hong Kong, where silver sculptures, resin dice, public exchange, and an Opepen set joined effort to chance.

Work, Luck, Play exhibition · 2026

Essays, talks and podcasts

Butcher explains the specialization and publishing system that drove Visualize Value’s early growth.

0 to $1,000,000 essay · 2021

The nft now podcast considers visual storytelling, blockchain ownership, and Butcher’s early NFT practice.

Visualizing Value for Web3 Communities podcast · 2021

NFT Morning records a discussion of Latent with Butcher and curator Marlène Corbun at Paris Photo.

Jack Butcher x LaCollection podcast · 2024

Auctions and catalogues

Christie’s introduces Checks Elements and its combination of monoprints and on-chain counterparts.

Checks Elements auction · 2023

Christie’s reports the results of its three-work Checks Elements auction.

Checks Elements Results results · 2023

Sotheby’s catalogues Butcher’s Bitcoin-inscribed 1 of 1.

1 of 1 auction · 2024

Sotheby’s documents a group of collaborative Snowpepen works.

Group of 10 Opepen auction · 2023

Profiles and archives

Visualize Value summarizes Butcher’s current Tennessee-based practice, education, commercial background, and studio and school.

Jack Butcher profile · 2026

Raster aggregates Butcher’s digital oeuvre and recorded market activity.

Jack Butcher on Raster archive · 2026

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