Written by Wade Wallerstein, Curator**Mitchell F. Chan’s Boys of Summer (2023) is an artwork about quantification and its impact on culture. **Taking the tripartite form of a video game, a collection of tokenized profile picture artworks, and a social marketplace performance, Boys of Summer deftly uses the great American pastime of baseball as a metaphor to explicate the increasing abstraction of our identities, dreams, and experiences as statistics. Abstraction is the process by which things...

Written by Wade Wallerstein, Curator**Mitchell F. Chan’s Boys of Summer (2023) is an artwork about quantification and its impact on culture. **Taking the tripartite form of a video game, a collection of tokenized profile picture artworks, and a social marketplace performance, Boys of Summer deftly uses the great American pastime of baseball as a metaphor to explicate the increasing abstraction of our identities, dreams, and experiences as statistics. Abstraction is the process by which things...