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Sterling Crispin: links

Sources tracing Sterling Crispin’s Art Blocks releases, interviews, institutional presentations, criticism, research, and archival record.

16 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks records Flourish as 270 unique artworks released on 30 August 2023.

Flourish collection · 2023

Art Blocks records Neophyte MMXXII as 168 unique artworks released on 22 March 2022.

Neophyte MMXXII collection · 2022

Interviews

ZKM presents a video interview with Crispin made in connection with GLOBALE: Infosphere.

ZKM interview interview · 2015

Press and criticism

VICE surveys Crispin’s early digital practice and its engagement with technological singularity.

VICE criticism · 2011

ANIMAL’s Artist’s Notebook feature examines Charon, an installation shaped by an autonomous drone’s flight path.

ANIMAL profile · 2014

MacRumors reports on Crispin’s Cyber Paint, a virtual-reality application for creating two-dimensional and panoramic images.

Cyber Paint report press · 2018

Museums and institutions

The Museum of Data documents the materials, datasets, fabrication process, and politics of Data-Masks.

Museum of Data institution · ongoing

Galleries and exhibitions

KW Institute for Contemporary Art lists Crispin among the artists in Poetics of Encryption.

Poetics of Encryption exhibition · 2024

Art Blocks documents Flourish and Neophyte MMXXII in EMULATION at the Museum of Art + Light.

EMULATION exhibition · 2026

Essays, talks and podcasts

Crispin explains Flourish as an alternative history of architectural ornament built from geometric grammar.

Flourish project essay project essay · 2023

Crispin documents Neophyte MMXXII's ten-year development and its simulated growth systems.

Neophyte project essay project essay · 2022

Crispin’s University of California thesis develops the concept of the Technological Other through biometric surveillance and machine perception.

UC thesis thesis · 2014

A peer-reviewed Business Ethics Quarterly article discusses Data-Masks as an artistic response to biometric surveillance and control.

Cambridge Core research · 2023

A Platform journal issue analyzes Data-Masks in relation to recognition technology, camouflage, and machine vision.

Platform journal · 2017

Profiles and archives

Raster aggregates Sterling Crispin's tokenized works across platforms.

Raster profile · ongoing

Crispin’s curriculum vitae records his education and exhibition history, including Poetics of Encryption and Planet B.

Artist CV archive · 2026

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