Generating Community

Shortly after the art platform Feral File launched “Social Codes,” its first online exhibition of NFTs, the site crashed. The culprit might have been the payment system, or the unexpected flood of visitors to the site. When the exhibition went back online, all the work was collected within an hour.
Feral File’s co-creator Casey Reas, an artist and one of the developers of creative coding software Processing, prefers “collected” to “purchased” to undersco