Essays
Notes from the frontier — on being early, on women in cryptoart, and on what it means to make and hold a body of work across the whole arc of a medium.
Seven Years On-Chain: From NYC Neon to PAPER TRAIL
Anna Louise Simpson on seven years as a cryptoartist: from her first SuperRare sale in 2019, through Bonhams, nft now and Sotheby’s New York, to PAPER TRAIL and the RUTHVEN Origin Passport.
The Machine Leaves a Paper Trail
On artistic automation, the Digital Assets (Scotland) Act 2026, and what a machine leaves behind when it takes an archive apart.
Artist Automation
Four thousand works made by a machine from the artist’s own archive, with the hand and the record kept.
The RUTHVEN Origin Passport
A provenance record written at the moment of making, anchored on IPFS, that any collector can check in their own browser.
The Posthuman Feminine Gaze
A gaze built not on the desires of men, but on the collaboration between a woman and her machine — ink, drone, sound and weather. On Drone Driver, and inventing a lens with no patriarchal source code.
Before Beeple: A Field Report from the Early Days
A year and a half before a $69 million sale made digital art front-page news, some of us were already on-chain. What it actually took to be early.