Mitchell F. Chan: links
Sources trace Chan’s generative collection, conceptual precedents, interactive works, exhibitions, criticism, and public record.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
The official collection record identifies 750 unique artworks and an August 4, 2021 release.
LeWitt Generator Generator ↗Interviews
Chan discusses systems, process, and the structures that shape experience in this Marfa conversation.
OpenSea Marfa conversation ↗Chan explains the economic throughline connecting Digital Zones, The Boys of Summer, and Overture.
In Conversation With Mitchell F. Chan ↗This process-focused exchange addresses sketching, public sculpture, conceptual practice, and art games.
Art Mechanics ↗Kaloh’s podcast surveys Chan’s conceptual and digital game practice.
Conceptual and digital art games ↗Press and criticism
The Brooklyn Rail analyzes The Boys of Summer through play, quantification, inequity, and constrained agency.
The Play’s the Thing ↗LEAP reads The Boys of Summer as a game that reflects the market’s own tools and values.
Life as Game ↗Wade Wallerstein examines the work’s combination of video game, tokenized portraits, and marketplace performance.
The Boys of Summer: An In-Depth Look ↗Canvas Journal situates Digital Zones within histories of immateriality, exchange, and photographic value.
Materially Immaterial ↗Museums and institutions
Buffalo AKG’s annual report documents Winslow Homer’s Croquet Challenge in the museum collection.
Buffalo AKG annual report ↗Fondazione Prada’s release outlines Christoph Büchel’s Monte di Pietà and its investigation of debt.
Monte di Pietà ↗Rhizome presents Chan’s argument that contemporary life is increasingly represented by game loops.
To Reflect A World Where All Life Is Work ↗Galleries and exhibitions
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.
Insert Coin(s), New York ↗Nguyen Wahed documents the London presentation of new works from Chan's Zantar trilogy.
Insert Coin(s), London ↗Nguyen Wahed’s artwork index lists examples from Chan’s physical and digital practice.
Mitchell F. Chan artworks ↗Essays, talks and podcasts
Chan's project walkthrough explains the generated wall, randomized viewpoint, and six distortion algorithms behind LeWitt Generator Generator.
LeWitt Generator Generator ↗Chan’s essay explains his approach to shaders, aesthetics, generative processes, and idea-driven software art.
Web3 Buddha ↗The Blockchain Experience episode features Chan discussing his new-media and blockchain practice.
Mitchell Chan: The Blockchain Experience ↗FITC’s archive documents Chan’s Toronto new-media activity and architectural-scale public-art work.
Mitchell F. Chan ↗Auctions and catalogues
Fondazione Prada’s catalogue page identifies the extensive Monte di Pietà publication.
Monte di Pietà catalogue ↗Profiles and archives
Raster aggregates Mitchell F. Chan's tokenized works across platforms.
Raster ↗Buffalo AKG's artist page identifies Chan as a Canadian artist born in 1982 and records his code-based and public works.
Buffalo AKG ↗Ensemble’s creator profile links Chan with Beggar’s Belief, Digital Zones, and LeWitt Generator Generator.
Mitchell Chan ↗Wildxyz’s collection study connects The Boys of Summer with Chan’s earlier Digital Zones, LeWitt, and Homer projects.
The Boys of Summer ↗