Mitchell F. Chan

So: yes! If this art has a social purpose (a big if!), it's to give the user an experience reframing their perspective on their own, with the hope that this toolset remains with the viewer to be applied in real-life contexts.

... when they walk the viewer out to the boundaries of their enclosing system, and show off the view from there.

This is not really a unique tactic! Reframing is a system. I think most "systems art" (expansive definition: art built in conceptual systems à la LeWitt; art built in technological systems à la Molnar) are at their best ...

The act of "reframing" is deliberately underlined in my art. It's underlined REALLY heavily, because it's a formal mechanism in my art and it's the subject matter of my art, and the subject matter points back to that formal mechanism.

Hi Nora!

I think you nailed the whole point just in the way that you phrased your question.

To Reflect A World Where All Life Is Work, An Artist Must Make Games w. Mitchell F. Chan Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.

Live Zoom Podcast today with @artw__rld, presented by @rhizome!

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Flipping Coins Kevin Buist reflects on Mitchell F. Chan’s “Zantar” games, crypto, and the attention economy

For @artforum.com I wrote about @chan.gallery's series of "Zantar" video game artworks, which I saw and played at Nguyen Wahed in New York in May. These works are funny, sad, and a biting critique of crypto, the attention economy, and gamified finance. www.artforum.com/columns/mitc...

Thank you!

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One of the most amazing things I ever experienced was the time that @chan.gallery realized that you could buy the sauce in bulk, and put it in one of those heated fountains that most people put chocolate in, and that you could dip chicken in flowing cascades of the stuff.

This week!

My work is at Freize Seoul with DE SARTHE, in booth C23

📢My latest works – Zantar, Ladyboss, and Moonboi (pictured) – will be presented by DE SARTHE at Frieze Seoul! 🇰🇷

Incredibly excited to be bringing this artwork across the world, to a new audience.

More details in my Discord.

@chan.gallery at @nguyenwahed.bsky.social. Games, art, Doritos, Mountain Dew.

New exhibition May 6-10 at Nguyen Wahed, NYC!

Looking for some voice actors for a small video game job! DM me!

Procrastination: coming up with public art concepts nobody asked for

Video games look nice

I have desperately wanted a copy of this board game for years, and now I just need 259 of you to order this game so that it gets funded... PLEASE.

I will play with you if you promise to let me be Yamamoto.
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Special Preview:

My brand new work will be revealed to the public for the first time this weekend at Beeple Studios in Charleston, SC!

The event will preview WIPs that will be fully unveiled at my solo show at Nguyen Wahed in NYC in May!

Not after what Crassous Curio did to me in Vivec…

Still working through that.

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Look everyone! ZANTAR is coming!!!

😭 I can't believe I got sucked into this for six hours... AGAIN.
Probably a perfect art game.

Artists whose influence will be very apparent in my upcoming work:

Christopher Pratt, Alice Munro, and the Michaels Snow & Myers.

New exhibition May 2025 at Nguyen Wahed

Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

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When facts fail, make truer fiction.

New work coming May 2025.
Nguyen Wahed, 504 E 12th St, New York

Announcement:

New work!
A lot of it!
May!

More details coming soon...

SPORTS ART GAMES!
I cannot wait for this.
For those of you not familiar, Robert has produced a number of art games that are, IMHO, some of the best exemplars in the genre. Spend some time with his itch page radiatoryang.itch.io and prepare to be delighted, digital art curators!

TIL that throughout the entirety of our relationship, Claude3.5 has believed my last name is "Chamings"