Episode description

Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh on Building a Digital Art Museum with Consensus and Curation

Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh from Visualize Value, Opepen, and Checks join Eli this week to discuss using consensus and curation to build a new kind of digital art museum.

Topics include:

• Opepen dynamics and its growing network of collaborators
• Building using first principles
• The story behind Jack’s Grails IV piece “Epiphany”
• The artists and movements that have inspired their work

Thumbnail art:
Consensus Met by Visualize Value

Artists mentioned:

• Larva Labs
• Snowfro
• Josef Müller-Brockmann
• PIV
• Like Lewis
• Jack Butcher
• Jalil

YouTube timestamps:

• 00:00 ➔ Intro
• 02:02 ➔ Recently Collected
• 06:13 ➔ Opepen: A Digital Museum
• 13:58 ➔ "Consensus Met"
• 21:10 ➔ Working Together
• 26:48 ➔ Behind "Epiphany"
• 29:30 ➔ What's in Your Vault

Recently Collected choices:

• Jack Butcher: The Cost of Fun by Like Lewis
  https://opepen.art/collect?s=5bf52250-eaf6-41c8-8e52-bc287bcccb5d
• Jalil Wahdatehagh: onezerozeroone.eth wallet
  https://magiceden.io/u/0x06d49cf038eb536b83d605220861b9fa50674f3f?chain=ethereum

What’s in Your Vault choices:

• Jack Butcher: Six Marilyns by PIV
  https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0x2A20E89f5fcb50543e952E81241c3e367De22892/1
• Jalil Wahdatehagh: Time, Presence, and Perspective triptych by Visualize Value
  https://foundation.app/@meditations