The Future of Art

Eko33 & Alejandro Cartagena: Latent Ink and Pushing Machine and Self to Their Limits

GM if you love computer generative art! Eko33 is an artist involved in generative art since 1999, first experimenting with the Commodore SX-64 and evolving to global teaching, exhibitions, and collection releases. Fast forward to today as he prepares Latent Ink, his newest collection. Here we get a behind the scenes peek at the collection's history and how he seeks to push the boundaries of his mind, his computer, and his plotter. Alejandro Cartagena is back, and the artist, curator and co-found...

Trevor Paglen & Alejandro Cartagena: AI Art, Evolved Hallucinations, and Contextualization

Trevor Paglen is an artist with work across experimental geography, the global surveillance state, artificial intelligence systems, and more. He has a rich history of authorship and exhibitions. "What I want out of art is to develop ways of seeing. Things that help us see the historical moment we are living in." He is exploring our relationship to infrastructures and technologies, asking: how do the things we build change us? Alejandro Cartagena is an accomplished artist in his own right, and he...

Summer Wagner: Fever Dreams, Rituals, and the Rust Belt

Summer Wagner is a photographer and fine artist from the Rust Belt region of the Midwest. Her artwork has a mystical quality to it, blurring lines between fantasy and reality, conscious and sub-conscious. Since bringing her art to the blockchain in 2021, she has been featured across Art Basel, Christie's, and several galleries, releasing collections including her most extensive one yet - Midamerican Fever Dream. She calls herself a director of rituals, and this interview takes place prior to her...

Boldtron & Alejandro Cartagena: The Vault of Wonders, AI, and Nature

Harvey Rayner: Generative Art, Embracing The Unknown, and chatFUKR

Harvey Rayner is an English artist with multiple decades of digital and generative art experience. Within the past several years he has released series across Christie's, Sotheby's, Art Blocks, Bright Moments, and Verse. The interview is wide ranging, covering life philosophies, what about art stands the test of time, and creating art in a collaborative Web3 environment. The conversation takes place just prior to his chatFUKR release, a collection at the intersection of generative art, contempor...

Cath Simard: Authenticity, Composition, and Risk

Cath Simard is a composite landscape photographer and digital artist. She creates at the intersection of reality and imagination and is quoted as saying, "I don't capture what my eyes see, I capture what my mind imagines." She is patient with her art releases, yet prolific in impact, with accomplishments across Christie's, Sotheby's, AOTM, SuperRare and ExchangeArt, with maybe her most notable work being a one-of-one Creative Commons exploration entitled 'Free Hawaii'. In this interview, we talk...

Niceaunties & Alejandro Cartagena: Auntie Culture, Structure, and Storytelling

Niceaunties is an artist inspired by the absurd and endearing behavior of Auntie culture, by Singapore, by food, and much, much more. She's telling a story, one about the growing Auntieverse, and one that is unfolding in chapters. Alejandro Cartagena is an artist and co-founder of Fellowship Trust, Fellowship AI, and Obscura. Via Fellowship, he's collaborating with niceaunties to bring the next chapter of Auntieverse, a milestone release, to life. This interview is packed with gems about creativ...

Hafftka: Obstinance, Flow, and LFG

Hafftka is an artist with five decades of experience and works represented in a host of museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, and Carnegie Museum of Art. It’s rare to find someone who matches such life experience with boundless energy and clear thought. Yet, that’s Hafftka. I left this conversation inspired. The deep-rooted desire to create, the obstinance needed to navigate art, and the conviction in digital medium, in crypto art, in crypto ownership ...

Artie Handz & Frank Manzano: Gallery Exhibitions, AI Video and Nostalgic Anxiety

Today, we welcome Artie Handz and Frank Manzano. Artie is a longtime collector in the digital art space. He is the founder of Artie Galerie and he's a strong artist advocate. Frank brings a film and photography background into his career as an artist emphasizing AI-assisted video. Artie describes Frank's work as a funhouse mirror merger of a viewer's own memories and the unfamiliar. This interview takes place as the pair are preparing for Artie Galerie's inaugural verse exhibition. We delve not ...

Roope Rainisto: AI, Communicating Feelings, and Breaking Reality's Rules

Roope Rainisto is a designer, a creator, a photographer, a screenwriter, and an endless learner, bringing his diversity of life experience to the frontier of artificial intelligence. He is challenging the way we see the world and the way we feel it, through collections like Life In West America with BrainDrops and REWORLD with Fellowship.

Batz: Modern Memeism, Pepe, and Generative Keys

Batz is an artist inspired by modern meme-ism with his finger firmly on the pulse of crypto art. In this interview, we go down the rabbit hole of creation, from Pepe inspiration, to Fidenza crossover, to a generative project of his own, to far more.

David Ariew: Octane Jesus, Infinite Mirrors, and Immersive Art

Today, we welcome David Ariew. David is a digital fine artist and educator fondly referred to as Octane Jesus. He has a background across music and film, has created with people like Madonna, has released at Sotheby's, and he has just returned from Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong. He joins us to recap Quantum Transcendence, discuss 3D tools, immersive portals, and boundary-pushing experiences.

In Conversation: Ben Strauss & Michael Sidofsky with Ayla El-Moussa

Welcome to episode 3 of In Conversation. Join Ayla El-Moussa for a fascinating chat with two brilliant artists, Ben Strauss and Michael Sidofsky. Explore their passion for photography, their use of light painting, and their idea for the future of web3. Dive into what keeps their wonder and creativity alive.

Pablo Fraile: Digital Art Patronage, Curation & Display, and Institutional Progress

Pablo Fraile is a mathematician, an investor, and a digital art patron. He, along with partner Desiree, curates the RFC Collection, an interdisciplinary art collection that champions contemporary digital mediums. The contents of this collection are swiftly becoming historic in nature. Want two examples? One, the co-donation of Unsupervised by Refik Anadol to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Two, alongside one of one art, seeing Human One by Beeple in the Crystal Bridges Muse...

Batsoupyum: Art Obsession, Historical Provenance, and Empowering Creators

Batsoupyum is a legendary art collector, specializing in tokenized digital art, and he has one of the most recognizable brands in that space. He is a lover of memes. He is part of team 6529. In this interview, we take stock of art, NFTs, how they’re defined, and opportunities for future growth. We deep dive his own collecting origin story, a hash mask, his approach to collecting, and highlights of that journey, including a fortuitous Skull of Luci, first works from Claire Silver, Grant Yun, Alot...

Slimesunday: Provocation, Alter Egos, and The Last Stand

Today we welcome Slimesunday. Slime is a provocative and unconventional collage artist who has released artworks through auction houses and platforms via Slimesunday and, alter ego, Grimemonday, and across collaborations including 3lau and Playboy. November 6th, 2020 was a special date in the history books as Slimesunday released The Last Stand of the Nation State. In this interview, we are going back in time. We are reliving the moment and walking it forward to present day. If you are an early ...

In Conversation: Grant Yun & Die With The Most Likes with Ayla El-Moussa

Welcome to a conversation with artists Grant Yun and Die With The Most Likes, aka Mark. The two contrasting and intriguing minds of both Grant and Mark take us on an amusing and rather hilarious journey of their artworks, their thoughts on current culture, and of course the most important question, what is your go-to dipping sauce? Please enjoy another discussion with two minds that will have you questioning the nature of your reality.

Ana María Caballero: Poetry, Perception, and Restoration

Ana María Caballero is an award-winning poet writing the Web3 Poetry Revolution. She has been internationally exhibited, widely published, and she was a recipient of the International Beverly Prize for Literature. Among her prolific works are Artifacts, a recent collaboration with Alex Esterich using coin and story to challenge tired history, as well as her incoming collection, Becoming Borges, a collaboration with London-based Verseworks and Berlin Gallery: Office Impart. Ana Maria is a deep, c...

In Conversation: Jesse Woolston with Ayla El-Moussa

From intricate details of atoms to the vast expanses of digital landscapes, one artist brings the world of nature and technology together in a mesmerizing dance: Jesse Woolston, a pioneer in crafting large-scale installations that span the globe. He captures the delicate equilibrium between the enchanting allure and the underlying terror of our planet. Today, we are privileged to embark on a journey through art, nature, ego, and the world. Welcome to a conversation with the visionary, Jesse Wool...

Shavonne Wong: Fantastical Dreams, Pragmatic Paths, and Manifesting Idris Elba

Shavonne Wong is an artist, 3D virtual model creator, and co-founder of NFT Asia. She was Vogue’s first NFT cover; she’s sold on Sotheby’s; she’s been collected by Idris Elba, and she’s exhibited in Singapore, Paris, and beyond. Try listening to this interview and not coming away inspired - not, in Shavonne’s words, a fantastical sense, but in a pragmatic sense. She talks empathy, realism, a willingness to be “cringe”, and she provides a very real path to going out there and getting it as an art...

Connor Grasso: Alaskan Origins, Psychedelics, and the Human Experience

Connor Grasso is a psycho-conceptualist artist. He explores the inner-workings of the mind, conscious and human experience and he leverages a variety of inspirations including his artistic lineage, his Alaskan origins, and psychedelics. In this interview, we catch Connor fresh off of his first solo exhibition. We dig into that, his process stories from Alaska, and his wide range of work in the web3 space with his own art as well as with the Shiller team.

Joey L: Human Curation, Antique Inspiration, and a Love Letter to Ethiopia

Joey L. is a Canadian-born, New York-based photographer and director. His work spans prominent brands, including National Geographic and History Channel, and celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. In this interview, Joey discusses the dance and the balance between commercial opportunity and personal fine art, and the pursuit of things he finds interesting and fulfilling. The conversation ranges from antique origins to his eight pound physical book, Ethiopia, to entering the...

Ryan Koopmans: Architecture, Nature, and Long Term Vantage Point

Ryan Koopmans is an artist exploring the relationship between nature and architecture - how societies have been shaped by built environments. He has sold work at Sotheby’s and SuperRare. He’s been collected by Jim Carey, yes, that Jim Carey. Ryan is thoughtful about his art, his minting, his use of mechanics and his collectors. He has a strong long-term vantage point and that really shines through in this interview.

Mariana Makwaia: Artistic Sovereignty, Optionality, and Experimentation

Mariana Makwaia is an artist blending photos, videos, analog, and digital music to create an alternative fusion world of her own. She is someone who values individual sovereignty, optionality, and the fundamental value propositions of the blockchain. In this wide ranging conversation, we'll explore anything from her recent audio visual series to her Sister Act sibling, from her vision to her memorable voice. Mari is exploring the gray areas and she's opening doors for herself and others....

NorCal Guy: Click, Create, and Collect

NorCal Guy is a considerate art collector who values original thought. He is the host of NorCal and Shill podcast. He is the founder of ClickCreate, premium curated digital art collection. He's the founder of One Exposure, a collective art piece based around one single camera. And he is a biscuit, yes, biscuit, king and connoisseur. We get into his backstory, art collecting, brand formation and the future of digital art.

Durk van der Meer & Justin Wetch: 3D, Design Principles, and Future Proofing

This is a special episode shining the spotlight on two people shaping the future of what art is and what dimensionality means, or as Artifex likes to call it, Web3D. Durk van der Meer - aka Durk at Work - is the Art Director of Artifex. He is the Art Director of Aku. He is a virtual world builder and 3D model creator. Justin Wetch is the Art Interaction Director of Artifex, creator of immersive art experiences, and he is an Alaskan artist with a wide ranging skillset....

Ayla El-Moussa: Waves, Sacred Geometry, and Visual Philosophy

Ayla El-Moussa is an artist known as the queen of waves. She harnesses the power of those waves, sacred geometry and self portraiture to create dreamlike environments that have captivated the digital art space. She's released at Christie's, she's collaborated with Playboy, 6529 and Noble Gallery.

Michael Kutsche: Character Design, Mythology, and Parallel Worlds

Michael Kutsche is a principal character designer for countless feature films, including Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and he's worked with Disney, DreamWorks, Marvel, Sony, Warner, Sega, and so many more. He is an artist who exists at the intersection of century spanning artistic movements and mythical creatures, historical figures, and pop culture. He creates paintings and animations that evoke nostalgia, exist in parallel realities, and would have us consider the human condition....

Grant Yun: Neo-Precisionism, Nostalgia, and a Palette Born in the Midwest

Grant Yun is an artist and self-titled neo-precisionist with a diverse set of influences ranging from nostalgia in video games; to art history in museums; to a distinct color palette born in the Midwest. He exploded onto the NFT scene in 2021 and he's since compiled a 'who's who' of collectors, auction houses, and enthusiasts. Grant is disciplined in creative process, realistic in his assessment of digital art today. He's a proponent of physical display and he's someone who takes nothing for gra...

J.N. Silva: Fractals, Photography, and Building an Artist Collective

J.N. Silva is a Renaissance man, artist, photographer, blockchain advocate, community thoughtleader. They’re a good start, but the whole is far greater than the sum of his parts. He is the founder of Animus, an artist collective dedicated to advancing the future, and he is the executive producer of Buscando America, a film being constructed through Web3.