Rhea Myers, Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021
Publication
Urbanomic, Falmouth, 2022
Softback, 322 pp., 250 × 190 mm 

Crypto artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers searches for faces in cryptographic hashes patiently explains why all art should be destructively uploaded to the blockchain. This anthology brings together annotated presentations of Myers’s blockchain artworks with essays, reviews, and fictions—a sustained critical encounter between the cultures and histories of the artworld and crypto-utopianism, technically accomplished but always generously demystifying and often mischievous.