Oliver Frey and Kelvin Gosnell’s Terminal Man to be completed and reprinted, Sotheby’s launches NFT series EVENT, and ArtNews reports on the historical sites that came under attack this year. Read more in Post Rendered’s news roundup for December 2024.
Sotheby’s releases EVENT
Sotheby’s launched EVENT earlier this month, a collaboration with Bernar Venet for their NFT marketplace. The Sotheby’s Metaverse page for the series states:
VENET EVENT is a long-form generative art collection by visionary conceptual artist Bernar Venet. In Venet’s signature style, five hundred algorithmic digital outputs explore the interplay of chance and unpredictability in the digital realm. The collection builds upon his seven-decade practice of probing these themes through sculpture, painting, drawing, poetry, sound, design, and photography.
A promotional video by Sotheby’s explores Venet’s collaboration with generative artist S.Ryan O-Connor (“Jiwa”) and multimedia artist River Davis. Davis stated that they have “taken Bernar’s systematic work over time and we’ve put it into an algorithm.”
The series of NFTs are described as, “an innovative series of 500 digital artworks crafted through algorithmic processes. Each piece is created at the moment of purchase, guaranteeing collectors a one-of-a-kind, unprecedented artwork.” The primary sale has closed, but works available on the secondary market can be viewed here.
ArtNews publishes their Year in Conflict
ArtNews released their Year in Conflict article on December 20th, giving an overview to points of historical and artistic importance that came under threat, or were destroyed, in 2024.
Highlighted events include the over 15, 000 pieces of fine art plundered from Ukrainian museums by Russian forces, looting of the National Museum of Sudan by Rapid Support Forces, and Israeli force’s strike of Tyre’s historic district, which contains some of the world’s “best preserved Roman ruins, including a large hippodrome.”
Terminal Man to be reprinted, completed, by Fusion Retro Books in 2025
Down the Tubes reported Olver Frey and Kelvin Gosnell’s Terminal Man will be reprinted in SHIFT Vol. 3. Furthermore, the second and unfinished series of Terminal Man will also be printed and completed by the magazine. No information was given on the team taking over to complete the work, but SHIFT promised more details soon.
Terminal Man chronicles the plight of spaceliner Arcadia after it crashes on an uncharted world. The comic was originally published in the computer magazine CRASH in 1984.
Post Rendered Recommends: Cartoonists Rights Network
Throughout the month of December, the Cartoonists Rights Network held a fundraiser drive with the goal of reaching $20, 250 US before December 25th. While the fundraising drive has come to close, donations are accepted year-round, and can be made here.
The Cartoonists Rights Network was founded in 1999. The organization’s homepage states:
Cartoonists Rights Network was the first global human rights organisation to focus on the need for protection of the socio-political cartoonist to carry out their work without fear of recrimination. Our work has helped cartoonists all over the world with legal, financial, emotional and moral assistance so that they can do what they do best; advocate against the injustices of this world.