Sarah Friend studied painting as a fine artist and is now one of the more audacious media artists. Her art projects probe the contours of possible kinds of social relations built on top of blockchain mechanics, inspired and shaped by her interest in science-fiction and futures. Sarah's medium is software, her canvas is the blockchain, and her paintbrushes non-fungible tokens and Solidity contracts. He project Lifeforms and Off are especially evocative, pushing into the near future of how cryptodynamics and blockchain architecture can operate as instruments and expressive media.

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Some links to Sarah Friend's work

https://isthisa.com/

https://twitter.com/isthisanart_

https://off.supply/

https://lifeforms.supply/about

https://github.com/ana0

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N°17 — Blockchain Artist Sarah Friend