Online Works

The following artworks are a part of the collection, but are hosted online at various locations. They are backed up as well, but currently best represented on their host sites.

Cassie McQuater Black Room

still from the ChunLi artwork showing a 90's era video game landscape with futuristic devices, flatbed trucks, and sand with plants and people.

In 2023 we became stewards for two “rooms” from Cassie McQuater’s 2017 artwork Black Room.

Black Room is a browser-based, narrative game about an insomniac falling asleep on their computer, on the internet. It’s meant to be played late at night. Progression through the game happens by resizing the browser it’s played in—which transforms the browser into a controller. Only through making the browser very small or oddly elongated can hidden secrets and doors to other rooms be found. The url is a string of 28+ random letters, an unmemorable URL. This requires it to be passed from person to person, copied and pasted directly, like an intimate secret. A feminist dungeon crawler that features a cast of vintage video game sprites, ripped directly from their arcade/console cards, Black Room seeks to bring them together to form new, resilient narratives.

Cassie McQuater

We are stewards for “ChunLi” and “Lily” meaning we will host a second copy of those pages ourselves, as well as being credited on the artist’s version of the pages within the HTML.
You can view them below:

Sedition

screenshot from sedition website showing thumbnails from 12 different artworks

The first significant Digital Platform we collected from was S|edition. They were innovators in large edition and very affordable artworks from artists at many stages of their career. Their attempt to protect the scarcity of the digital art was to require that to view the work you would need to use their app to view it. In early 2023 they began to allow some of the artworks to be minted into NFTs as well. The first work we collected here was by artist Casey Reas in June 2013. As of July 2023 the collection includes 165 individual works.

The works can be viewed here: https://www.seditionart.com/chris_coleman_2/artworks/purchased

The Sedition Vault includes works by:

  • Graphset
  • Alex McLeod
  • Franz Rosati
  • Nude Robot
  • Jonathan Monaghan
  • Graphset
  • LIA
  • Herwig Scherabon
  • Snow Yunxue Fu
  • Carla Gannis
  • Jono Brandel
  • Luigi Honorat
  • Aristarkh Chernyshev
  • fuse*
  • Yoshi Sodeoka
  • Frederik De Wilde
  • Fernando Velázquez
  • Lu Yang
  • Universal Everything
  • Laura Jean Healey
  • Alan Warburton
  • Thukral & Tagra
  • Andrew Thomas Huang
  • Can Büyükberber
  • Maxim Zhestkov
  • Andreas Nicolas Fischer
  • Markos Kay
  • Mike Pelletier
  • Boris Labbé and Daniele Ghisi
  • Joëlle
  • Sougwen Chung
  • Ryoichi Kurokawa & Novi_sad
  • Lawrence Lek
  • Ryan Whittier Hale
  • Ryoichi Kurokawa
  • Katie Torn
  • Doug Foster
  • Quayola & Sinigaglia
  • Zeitguised
  • Nicolas Sassoon & Rick Silva
  • Jenny Holzer
  • MSHR
  • Shane Mecklenburger
  • Tim Berresheim
  • Sara Ludy
  • Sophie Kahn
  • Claudia Hart
  • FIELD
  • Memo Akten
  • Paul Prudence
  • AES+F
  • Quayola
  • Eric Schockmel
  • Ryoji Ikeda
  • Casey Reas

Daata

still from Peter Burr's Drop City animation with a red floor, grey scaffold, and a large twisted figure in the middle in black and white

In 2017 we began collecting works on Daata, a platform that commissions artworks and then offers them in small editions. While not as affordable as Sedition, Daata operates as much like a small gallery as a marketplace. When you buy the work you are able to download the full quality file and certificate. The first work we collected was by Jonathan Monaghan in March 2017. We have since collected 6 artworks, each being edition #1.

Links directly to the artworks where you can view them with watermarks: