Released by
AoristStewarded Collection
Released by
AoristStewarded Collection
Released by Aorist on 29 November 2021. 5 works, 104 editions (103 on Ethereum). Stewarded by Feral File: nobody at Feral File curated it, and the pages make no claim of authorship.
Aorist was a digital art platform that released work by Refik Anadol, Andrés Reisinger, Quayola, Joanie Lemercier, Nancy Baker Cahill, Auriea Harvey and others on the Algorand blockchain in 2021 and 2022, then stopped operating. In 2024 Feral File built a bridge from Algorand to Ethereum for Aorist's collectors, migrated the works, and took custody of the collection. The works are shown here as they were released: one entry per Aorist release, with its artist, its mint date and its Ethereum contract.
A stewarded collection is work Feral File stewards for an initiative that no longer operates. It is not a Feral File exhibition: nobody at Feral File curated it, and the pages make no claim of authorship. The record stays readable, the works stay viewable, and the collectors keep a place where their holdings can be seen. Each release is listed as it was released, and each work carries the Ethereum contract the collection was migrated to and the artist's own description where the token metadata preserved one.
The inventory comes from Aorist's own database, recovered by Feral File: 25 releases, 2,342 editions and 77 distinct works across 15 artists. The original media host is gone. The files shown here are the copies pinned to IPFS during the 2024 migration and served from Feral File's gateway; works whose files are still being restored are listed without a player.
Jonas Lund's Most Valuable Painting, released through Aorist in 2022, was completed as a Feral File exhibition in 2026 and has its own pages.
70 works by 13 artists across 22 releases, 1,573 editions, listed as stewarded collections.
Artist
Nancy Baker CahillLocationLos Angeles
Nancy Baker Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and expanded filmmaker whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. She creates research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting ecological imagination, civics, and a desire for more equitable futures. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free, AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression.
Baker Cahill’s globally-exhibited geolocated AR installations have earned her profiles in The New York Times, Frieze, and The Art Newspaper, among other publications. In 2023, the Georgia Museum of Art exhibited her first solo mid-career survey, which will travel through 2025. The Whitney Museum of American Art commissioned and acquired CENTO, the museum’s first participatory AR project co-built by a global audience, on view through 2024. She will premiere her immersive, expanded film SEEK in 2024, marking the inaugural art experience at COSM in Los Angeles.
Baker Cahill is an artist scholar alumnus of the Berggruen Institute and a TEDx speaker. In 2021, she was awarded the Williams College Bicentennial Medal of Honor and a C.O.L.A. Master Artist Fellowship. She is a 2022 LACMA Art and Tech Grant recipient, and 2024-5 Harvard metaLAB Affiliate. Her work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; RFC Art Collection, Miami, FL; and 0x Collection, Prague, CZ.
Mushroom Cloud smart contract (Ethereum, migrated from Algorand):