Door: Simon Denny (https://simondenny.net/)
“In Dotcom Séance, Simon Denny, together with Guile Twardowski and Cosmographia, resurrects companies that failed in the 2001 dotcom crash – bringing them back to life as NFTs.
Dotcom Séance looks at time and the internet by reviving “dead” Web 1 companies with Web 3 technology. The selected companies were re-enlivened by being “conjured” through a series of AI-generated logos. Fed on prompts describing each company, the generated logos serve, in essence, as instances of the internet re-imagining itself. Twardowski also created one unique, bespoke rework of each company’s logo based on these outputs.”
https://simondenny.net/dotcom-seance
“Drawing on the popularity of board games, and resonant with game theory’s influence on the technology sector, The Founder’s Paradox explores competing utopian visions, remapped as board games with narratives from radical and influential texts: from libertarian super-investor Peter Thiel’s Zero to One on the one hand, to Oxford-based writer Max Harris’s indictment of neoliberalism, The New Zealand Project, on the other. The Sovereign Individual worldview is examined through “world-building” fantasy games, while more collectivist ideas like Harris’s are put into play via games that involve physical dexterity and cooperation. A riff on The Game of Life bridges the two, offering the choice between collective action and individual sovereignty at every fork.”
