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We hope to be back > MARFA @neort_io @ArtOnBlockchain @toshiaki_takase @themassagejp

The response to the exhibition was far greater than we had imagined. Each artist took NEORT’s machine platform, and the thinking behind it, as a starting point and found their own expression on top of it. @takenstheorem @satoshi_aizawa @rudxane1 One thing became clear. By adding the element of digital computation to a machine and building work upon it, the three artists let us explore the artwork and the system and let us imagined a digital death, and let their work leave their hands so that its form could be seen more concretely. People enter that system. Simply by stepping into the room, a visitor interacts with the machine; an image emerges as its output; and people look at it again. Three small worlds were built, each with its own loop of interaction. Experiencing them one by one, we could feel, with our own bodies in front of them, what it means to live in a digital society. Giving the work a physical body brought something new to the surface. Because we see the physical, we feel the digital more strongly; because we see the machine, we sense the human. And there is a world that holds even when no one is there. It is much like what Donald Judd found w hen he came to Marfa: a world of nature and matter that goes on existing, and shining, without human interference; and when people arrive, a conversation begins and a new way of feeling is added. Judd’s minimal, conceptual world and the deeply conceptual world of the digital have something in common. I felt that connection strongly, and this exhibition showed me once again how fascinating generative art can be. I think I felt why artblocks chose to be in Marfa. This is mind blowing. Thanks for all the great opportunity, we will be back! @ArtOnBlockchain @jeffgdavis @artblocks_io

Today, NEORT++ is honored to present Quietus Machine at @artblocks_io , for one day only. *Appreciate this great opportunity Quietus Machine asks a simple question: what do we see when worlds we have drawn digitally are computed continuously and carried out in the world we actually live in? Through the machines the artists have built, the outputs they produce, and the thinking behind them, each visitor is invited into a moment of their own to look and to feel. Artists Takens Theorem @takenstheorem Rudxane @rudxane1 Satoshi Aizawa @satoshi_aizawa Installing outside the white cube has been refreshing. The Donald Judd tour with Chinati Foundation showed us a world where Lights, nature, design, matrials and thought are sharpened to their essence, and that experience stays with us as we open today. Our three artists have done remarkable work. Their inspiration and craft are what make today’s presentation possible. Bringing an exhibition we envision from Tokyo to Texas is no small undertaking. It means working closely with partners, shipping artworks and equipment across the Pacific, and staying on top of communication at every step. Anyone who has done this knows how much care it takes. This time was no exception. Shipping was a real challenge: our plinths were held at customs, and the screens wouldn’t display. But the team never gave up. They solved each problem one by one and gave their best until the very end. The energy of this community, NEORT included, is extraordinary. This journey has given us new energy and inspiration. Among old friends, familiar faces, and new encounters, we’ve begun to see what our next stage should look like. We are deeply grateful. It has been a year since @toshiaki_takase first came to Marfa. The time we spent with @ArtOnBlockchain in Tokyo and the strength @KZ_LAB_E has given us all lead to today. That is what this day means to us. *maybe even before when @takawo first came in 2023 Please join us at Art Blocks Gallery, 11:00–19:00.

Happy to share @glimmerdao collected Paru-paro (Butterfly) (2026) by Chia Amisola 🦋 @nonperformant Shown at WWW! — ARTXCODE × Rhizome, New York. @rhizome @artxcode_io @fellowshiptrust Why we collected it: • It re-sorts impersonal imagery (platforms, satellites, stock photos) into an intimate encounter with memory, myth and grief by an interactive playable experience • Chia’s life’s work is preserving the Philippine internet, the same mission Glimmer holds for Asian digital art • A work about internet space, collected with its domain, files and Rhizome archive so it can outlast the platforms it draws from Congratulations👏 again to Chia for all the great works she has done and welcome to the collection！ Shout out to LAN Party for curating this @benoit_tokyo_ @bennavkim