Today’s guest is Brendan Dawes - an award-winning artist whose career has focused on using generative processes involving data, machine learning and algorithms, to create interactive installations, electronic objects, online experiences, data visualisations, motion graphics and screen and print work.

His work has been celebrated all over the world including three Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibitions in NY and his Cinema Redux project - which we discuss in this interview – actually became part of the permanent MoMA collection in 2008.

Brendan now focuses his time on NFTs with his first being sold within one hour of its launch on the KnownOrigin platform, and was acquired by the legendary NFT collector WhaleShark. Brendan went on to release a collection on Nifty Gateway which sold out in less than a minute! 

In today’s episode, we discuss NFTs and the impact they have had on the design world, how the tough times in Brendan’s career led to his success, and how being included in Sotheby’s first NFT auction was such a pivotal moment for him, and the industry.

I am a huge fan of Brendan and his work and urge you to find him on Twitter and follow him. And if you want to check out his work, he has another drop scheduled on Nifty Gateway for 23rd February so do check it out – it’s called 16Bit Machine Dreams and it’s the third and final part of his machine dreams series, inspired by video games.

Enjoy!

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Episode edited by Jolin Cheng