NODE Foundation opens its doors in Palo Alto this week: 12,000 square feet dedicated to art born from blockchain and network culture. It’s an impressive space and an exciting moment, but also a sign of the times that a movement once premised on distribution and permissionless participation has sought out a physical home in Silicon Valley.

To their credit, NODE is aware of the tension. Their announcement notes that Palo Alto is “the first NODE in what will be a growing network,” acknowledging that one location cannot possibly contain that which is meant to exist everywhere simultaneously. But it raises the question: was this always inevitable? Does the art of a decentralized ecosystem require centralized institutions to be legitimized, preserved, and understood? Contrast this with Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, which has built portals in Minecraft to bring the museum to the world, meeting audiences where they already are. Here is a 19th-century institution embracing the logic of network culture.

The question isn’t whether we need physical spaces—clearly we do. The question is whether those spaces can resist the logics of the art world we already have, and which the crypto art movement once sought to reject.

— Danielle King, Head of Community at Right Click Save

ART SG, Singapore’s annual art fair (until January 25) is for the third year featuring art made with technology under its Focus Digital banner. The work of Sasha Stiles, HEART MANTRAS (2025), and Marina Abramović, METHOD (2026), is showing on the stand of TAEX, London. 2GIL29 Gallery, Seoul, is presenting a solo media art exhibition by Jongbum Choi, a leading figure of the first generation of Korean media artists. The Toronto-based gallery MKG127 is showing works by Monica Tap, Adam David Brown, and Geoffrey Pugen, while Pugen has been included in the fair’s film program “Would You Tell Me a Story Until I Fall Asleep?” at the ArtScience Museum of Singapore. Meanwhile, Nandita Mukand is showing work with The Columns Gallery, Singapore, that explores “the tension between human desire and the structures—both spiritual and digital—that define our lives”.

“Singapore provides the perfect stage to explore the intersection of art and technology,” Magnus Renfrew, Co-Founder, ART SG, tells Right Click Save. “Our Focus Digital sector has been enthusiastically received over the past three editions, and we’re excited to build on this momentum [at] ART SG. With collectors increasingly drawn to innovation, this is the ideal moment to showcase the future of collecting and the possibilities that digital art offers.”