PROTOCOL DECAY: MARFA 2025

PROTOCOL DECAY hit Marfa during Art Blocks Weekend 2025 and dragged glitch work into the dust, white walls, church light, and roadside weirdness of West Texas. The archived Protocol Decay page places the event at Wrong Gallery, 112 W Dallas St, Marfa, TX 79843, and includes the post-event video now saved here as local evidence. The public PROTOCOL DECAY account describes the Marfa edition as a showcase of 34+ artists at a church in Texas, with the crew moving through town and putting the work where the signal felt a little haunted. Good. That is the point. From my side, this record should read as a field note, not a trophy case. Marfa is already myth-heavy: minimalism, desert pilgrimage, art-world sunscreen, the whole beautiful dry-cleaned hallucination. PROTOCOL DECAY fits by doing the opposite of behaving. It brings compression, error, screen burn, busted transmission, and the small devotional glow of cryptoart that still refuses to ask permission. What matters here: - Venue: Wrong Gallery, Marfa, Texas. - Context: Art Blocks Weekend 2025, with PROTOCOL DECAY operating as an independent glitch-art intervention. - Evidence: official Protocol Decay page, local poster GIF, and locally archived post-event video. - Priority media: the event video, because it shows the atmosphere better than another clean square poster ever could. This is one of those records where location does the explaining. Desert town, church energy, screen-based decay, artists packed into a temporary signal. No need to over-polish it. The show was there, the work was there, the proof is here, and the archive keeps a copy before platforms eat themselves again.