Introduction
Reas’s retrospective dates the opening of Social Codes to 19 March 2021. Feral File organised releases through curated group exhibitions and exchanges among participating artists.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Social Codes and Feral File’s group-exhibition model
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
Work and historical context
This entry for Casey Reas; Feral File; participating artists is dated 2021-03-19, under the original title Social Codes. Date from the curator’s retrospective; opening and individual issue dates may differ, and not every exhibited digital work is classified as rule-based generation.
Section sources: Curator’s Note — Feral File 1.0
Process and material
Reas’s retrospective dates the opening of Social Codes to 19 March 2021. Feral File organised releases through curated group exhibitions and exchanges among participating artists.
Section sources: Curator’s Note — Feral File 1.0
Viewing the work and its documentation
Read Social Codes through exchange, presentation and collecting relationships in the curator’s account. Its exhibition context brings different media together without establishing that every work is generative or stored on-chain in the same way.
Section sources: Curator’s Note — Feral File 1.0
Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: Platform history includes peer collecting, curatorial themes and exhibition relationships. Feral File prevents one Art Blocks model from standing for the whole ecosystem.
Section sources: Curator’s Note — Feral File 1.0
Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Platform history includes peer collecting, curatorial themes and exhibition relationships. Feral File prevents one Art Blocks model from standing for the whole ecosystem.
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Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2021-03-19 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2021-03-19
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Social Codes
https://feralfile.com/retrospective/ff1/curators-note/
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Date from the curator’s retrospective; opening and individual issue dates may differ, and not every exhibited digital work is classified as rule-based generation.
Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #129 · Generative-art expansion: artists, works and execution
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Date as recorded: 2021-03-19
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Curator’s Note — Feral File 1.0
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