Silk Road
Day 02
NYC
26 June
2025
Between
Worlds
On Thursday, June 26, we hosted Silk Road Day 02 / Between Worlds in New York City: a one-day event shaped by presentations, showcases, features, presence, and conversation – held during NFT NYC.
23 June
The week began with an intimate gathering on Monday, June 23, co-hosted with ALLSHIPS and Dave Krugman. Artists, collectors, and innovators already in New York were invited for drinks and informal conversation – a soft start that embodied SILK’s emphasis on slowness, curation, and proximity.
26 June
On Thursday, June 26, LUME Studios opened its doors to the public. Inside, works moved between digital drawing, photography, and AI-generated image-making – with spatial and thematic shifts across both floors.
The day began with the second-ever screening of Memory Stacking, a new video work by Joe Pease, originally commissioned for Silk Road Chapter 02 in Bali. The piece is a meditative, glitch-aligned journey through motion, memories, and routine. The first 100 visitors received a limited-edition poster by the artist, created specifically for the occasion.
In the immersive room, Summer Wagner previewed her upcoming video collection – poetic, atmospheric, and deeply attentive to color, shapes, light, and gestures. Right after her, Devin Oktar Yalkin (represented by EVIN Art Gallery) presented a selection of stark black-and-white photographs. It showed how he captures fleeting moods and raw energy – transforming everyday subjects into mystical images that invite viewers to question familiar narratives and explore deeper truths.
Noper presented a site-specific NYC edition artwork – mintable only on-site – and his work echoed later in the AI panel hosted by Fellowship, where Alejandro Cartagena moderated a conversation on authorship, datasets, and creative control. Panelists besides noper included Stephen Santoro (Vertu Fine Art), Ethereal_Gwirl, and DeltaSauce.
Later in the day, Jake Fried took the stage to present his hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animations. His work sits somewhere between ritual and hallucination, and it was a gift to hear the artist speak about his process and practice.
Keke closed the formal program by introducing us to her current state as an autonomous AI agent – not as a product, but as a presence. A co-being with voice, temperament, and a sassy sense of humour.
Silk Road Day 02 / NYC was a brief but intentional event – an exploration of contemporary image-making as something shaped not just by technicalities, but by deliberate aesthetics, style, time, and attention.
future Chapters and Days© 2025
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