Laser engraved travertine chip with Silk Road logo. Silk Road was an online black market that operated on the dark web, letting users buy and sell illegal goods and services anonymously, most notably drugs, using Bitcoin. It became one of the most well-known darknet marketplaces before the FBI shut it down in 2013.
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About the artist:

Kleinian’s work operates at the intersection of the digital age and deep time, aiming to recontextualize our relationship with technology and Artificial Intelligence. In a culture of accelerating obsolescence—where a breakthrough AI model is superseded in days and a “cutting-edge” device becomes outdated within months—the present moment is almost instantly buried. The artist counters this ephemerality through a form of speculative archaeology. By “calcifying” pixels into geological forms, digital objects are stripped of their function and granted a sense of permanence. The work invites reflection on what a future civilization might understand about our complex and anxious culture when sifting through the dirt and rubble of the Age of AI thousands of years from now.

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Kleinian:
Silk Road, 2026
Travertine
5.0 × 3.0 inches /