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

SLEEP: The Rhythm of Sun and Moon: A Meditation for Deep Sleep