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LeeMullican.PCX x Feral File - Cole Root & Sean Moss-Pultz (PF14)

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Cole Root, director of the Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican, shares the development of Lee Mullican’s artistic career from physical painting to computer based imagery. Cole will discuss the styalistic similarities between Lee’s analog and digital practice as well biographical information on the late prolific artist. LeeMullican.PCX is the first project the estate has minted on the Tezos blockchain and represents the earliest known body of digital work by Mullican. Lee Mullican.PCX is curated by Anika Meier and hosted by Feral File. The project minted on March, 22 2023. Sean Moss-Pultz joins Cole to discuss the histories of Bitmark and Feral File. He’ll also share updates about Feral File's unique wallet for digital art collectors called Autonomy. ABOUT LEE MULLICAN Lee Mullican was born in 1919 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and died in Los Angeles in 1998. Upon his graduation from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1942, Mullican was drafted into the army, serving four years as a topographical draughtsman before moving to San Francisco in 1946. After winning a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959, he spent a year painting in Rome before returning to Los Angeles where he joined the UCLA Art Department in 1961, keeping his position for nearly 30 years. He divided the later part of his life between his homes in Los Angeles and Taos, traveling internationally and co-organizing exhibitions at UCLA. A retrospective spanning fifty years of the artist’s work was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2006. Mullican’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. ABOUT COLE ROOT Cole Root is the Director of the Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican. He works with museums, galleries, and artist studios to realize artworks, exhibitions, and special projects. ABOUT SEAN MOSS-PULTZ Sean Moss-Pultz is the co-founder and CEO of Bitmark a startup working to extend traditional property rights to the digital age by creating tools that give individuals control over their own digital assets and data. His passion is in developing technologies that empower humans. Prior to Bitmark, he was a senior executive for EMQ, a financial technology startup. Recognized as a pioneer of open-source hardware, Sean launched and was CEO of Openmoko, the first open-source phone and a precursor to iPhone and Android smartphones. He holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and physics from UC San Diego. ABOUT FERAL FILE Feral File commissions curated exhibitions of digital artwork and we partner with artists and institutions to explore new ways of exhibiting and collecting. Evolving from the art gallery and publishing models, we are borrowing the best traits of each to inform a new kind of art space. Feral File works in tandem with a community of technologists, new media artists, collectors, and curators to redefine and frame a sustainable model for the future of digital experimentation. https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/leemullican-pcx-ff8 NFTuesdayLA program flyers are designed by Sunny Chen.