Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠 Smart Contracts are Art with Paul Seidler and Sam Hart
On today’s episode I’m joined by Paul Seidler and Sam Hart.
Paul Seidler is an artist and design researcher. He is co-founder of terra0, an art project, DAO, and EVM framework for automated ecosystem management and simulation. He has worked at research groups including Hybrid Platform and Design Research Lab and has created onchain NFT artworks including Straylight Protocol, which explores multiplayer EVM-gaming with onchain NFT automata.
Sam Hart Berman is a programmer and artist. He has a background academic biochemistry publishing, fine art curation, interdisciplinary publishing at Avant.org and Other Internet, and has contributed to various technical projects including the design of EIP-1559, the FOAM mesh network blockchain, Cosmos’ Interchain Foundation, and now Skip Protocol, which is building infrastructure for mitigating bad MEV the Cosmos ecosystem.
Both Paul and Sam contribute to Folia, an NFT open edition curated platform, and live in Berlin.
In this episode, we discuss Paul’s recent talk On Smart Contracts as a Medium, which he presented at Trust Support. We use this jumping off point to discuss blockchain as an art making medium. We cover a variety of interesting art and research projects including Rhea Myers’ Is Art, OpenTimestamps, Sam’s One Token, Brotchain, VanityBlocks, Sam’s Kudzu NFT, and much, much more.
It was a pleasure talking to Paul and Sam about the spectrum of conceptual art, from fine art experimentation through research projects and infrastructure building. This was a great conversation.
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Links
On Smart Contracts as a Medium
ERC-721: Non-Fungible Token Standard