Verse Talks

00:35 - Welcome Rafaël Rozendaal 02:55 - The advantage of a conversational archive 06:21 - The influence of travel and cultural heritage 08:25 - Neen, LA and digital art in the late '90s 12:06 - Growing up in an artistic household 14:32 - Grants, funding and commercial pressure 16:35 - The potential of the early internet 21:00 - Art school and early connections 27:30 - Berlin and Post-Internet 31:30 - The impact of New York on a working practice 35:36 - A window to the creative process 38:15 - The importance of painting 40:21 - The power of a minimal approach 42:15 - Discovering blockchain and NFTs 45:01 - A new audience and a new perspective 49:55 - Papertoilet.com and unintended virality 56:40 - Quantifying effort, success and quality 59:50 - MoMa and allowing the space to curate the work 01:01:45 - Twist 01:03:20 - Thinking with your brush 01:05:15 - The origin of Rooms 01:07:40 - Colour, saturation, contrast and iteration 01:10:53 - The advantage of working with a gallery 01:16:26 - What's next Rafaël Rozendaal: https://x.com/newrafael Fellowship: https://x.com/fellowshiptrust https://fellowship.xyz/exhibition/rafael-rozendaal-rooms                  

00:46 - Welcome Jared Madere 03:19 - The genesis of Yeche Lange 09:20 - Market consolidation and post-2021 11:00 - Exploring the role of the gallery in the Web3 space 16:18 - What caused the scene to develop on Solana 18:03 - The growth of community 21:59 -  Earl16o1, trader fiction and chart paintings 25:35 - Compatibility with the traditional sphere 31:40 - A new mode of operating for a changing art world 40:20 - Market transparency vs. market opacity 46:33 - Embracing risk and volatility 50:35 - Looking to the future of Yeche and VVV 58:15 - The reuse of assets and creation of derivatives 01:03:55 - The development of art coins 01:06:30 - Series sizing and artistic output 01:09:40 - VAJ and Vajunnie 01:15:20 - The growth of the scene and new collectors 01:23:53 - The origin of the term Gay NFT 01:26:40 - How people outside the space can orientate themselves 01:31:45 - The importance of physicality and living with art  VVV: https://x.com/vvvdotsoGalerie Yeche Lange: https://x.com/yeche_lange wretched worm: https://x.com/wretched_wormspiky dj: https://x.com/spiky_dj_Bosh: https://x.com/supermetalx kid xanthrax: https://x.com/id_xanthraxParker Ito: https://x.com/creamydreamyearl16o1: https://x.com/earl16o1Tojiba Brand Manager: https://x.com/m_m_____m____mmmifella: https://x.com/mmifellaevil biscuit: https://x.com/bis__cutfairybaby420: https://x.com/fairybaby420lowbie: https://x.com/archivepilledGremlins: https://x.com/gremlins2movieAlex Mackin Dolan: https://www.alexmackindolan.comVajunnie: https://x.com/vaj_mindpalace      

00:47 - Welcome Paul Pfeiffer 03:07 - The spectacle of sport 07:06 - Exploring the implications of new technology 10:05 - Working with digital media in the early 1990s 14:50 - The blurring of the digital and the human 20:08 - How media consumption has shifted across the last thirty years 23:50 - The stadium as mediatised architecture 30:57 - New work and developing projects     Paul Pfeiffer: https://www.instagram.com/pmp2021  

00:48 - Diving into the Solana trenches 07:40 - PFP culture and Drilady 08:50 - Chain-specific culture and why Solana makes sense 14:26 - Parker Ito and the impact of Horses?2 17:00 - A different community of artists and collectors 19:00 - Jay's mid-curve meme 20:34 - Raoul Pal and consensus vs non-consensus 27:40 - Should we all be bullposting? 29:40 - AB[500] and does shuttering encourage long-term value accrual 32:55 - Verse rundown 35:08 - Debriefing on Quantizer 40:37 - Feral File and Net Evil 42:30 - Solo vs group shows 45:20 - Artist highlights MCHX: https://x.com/mchx17 supermetalx: https://x.com/supermetalx serezha galkin: https://x.com/graphicapng Terence Broad: https://x.com/terrybroad Mike Balzer: https://x.com/pxlshrd          

00:38 - Welcome Parker Ito 05:25 - Tumblr, Post-Internet scene and finding community 12:20 - The effect of early success 20:30 - Disillusionment with the art world 24:25 - What caused the market to boom 26:28 - Deep lore, Basel 2015 and Leonardo DiCaprio 30:01 - The compromises needed to work as an artist 33:03 - Through-lines and stylistic tropes 35:10 - A non-hierarchical approach 38:17 - Discovering NFTs 39:50 - Balancing the traditional art world and the NFT space  42:27 - Cultural friction and the benefit to the stigma around NFTs 46:00 - Finding the Solana scene 48:17 - Horses, Drifella 2, Drilady and Parkerito.net52:55 - The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble 58:10 - Traitmaxxing, repetition and composition 01:01:55 - The working process of the Living Room Crucifixion 01:10:50 - Ambiguity within the art work 01:13:17 - The work as a metaphor for a psychological space 01:16:15 - Objects, layers and series traits 01:19:01 - Beyond Living Room Crucifixion 01:21:20 - The artist residency at the Bellagio Parker Ito: https://x.com/creamydreamy https://verse.works/series/the-pilgrims-living-room-crucifixion-mona-lisa-hyper-gamble-by-parker-ito

00:48 - Welcome Adam Levine 01:15 - What sets the Toledo Museum of Art apart 05:22 - Ensuring the community has access to culture 07:20 - The benefit of private funding 10:10 - TMA's digital program 13:25 - The history and founding principles of the museum 21:20 - An emphasis on craft, skill and aesthetic quality 27:10 - Artist studios, manufacturing and industrial process 31:20 - Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms 33:40 - The Digital Artist-in-Residence Program and community onboarding 43:23 - A focus on innovation and strategy 46:10 - Adam's path to NFTs 49:45 - Repeat visitation as a key performance metric 54:40 - "Integrating art into people's lives" 56:25 - Expanding the audience for digital art 01:03:16 - Verse roundtable 01:07:10 - Cultural accessibility, funding and profitability 01:16:55 - Why Artie is exiting the space 01:24:25 - Release cadence 01:30:57 - The difficulty of finding sustainability as a platform 01:37:20 - A maturation of the space 01:41:30 - The potential for a reshaping of consensus around the blue chips 01:44:55 - Harm van den Dorpel 01:49:23 - Verse rundown 01:50:25 - Artist highlights 01:51:50 - Debriefing on Terence Broad Toledo Museum of Art: https://x.com/toledomuseumnoper: https://x.com/bagdelete Kevin McCoy: https://x.com/mccoyspace Jennifer McCoy: https://x.com/jennmccoyspace                

00:40 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel 01:35 - Working with plotters 05:06 - Creative beginnings 08:45 - A grounding in early AI 11:20 - From tech to art school 13:50 - The shifting context around digital presentation16:10 - The development of post-internet art 18:00 - Separating sales and practice 22:40 - Markov's Window 25:00 - Establishing Left gallery and discovering blockchain 30:33 - The stress of managing a gallery 32:01 - The importance of true digital ownership 35:29 - Mutant Garden Seeder 38:15 - Exploring Quantizer 40:40 - Algorithmic archeology 42:45 - Dithering and Quantizer's traits 46:42 - Two seeds and a double system 50:20 - The reason for artist curation 52:02 - Mandalas, Buddhism and the influence on Quantizer 56:00 - Transience and permanence 58:20 - Surprise born from a system 01:04:10 - Meditation machines 01:08:12 - The relationship between an artists practice and the market 01:09:55 - Defining the digital and physical worlds 01:12:40 - Preserving a digital work 01:15:43 - The thinking behind the series size 01:19:45 - What's next? Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel  Quantizer: https://verse.works/series/quantizer-by-harm-van-den-dorpel?itemId=2f5761c0-0e42-4457-a844-6bd9f854adf5

00:44 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel and Regina Harsanyi 03:05 - Nasty Nets, Club Internet and the early surf clubs 09:05 - Creating context and community through curation 12:40 - Ongoing scepticism around blockchain and NFTs 18:00 - Left Gallery, early blockchain based ownership and speculation 20:10 - The speed of secondary in the digital world 22:00 - On creating Quantizer 27:10 - A true reflection of the blockchain and networked broadcast 33:40 - The ideal way to display and experience the work 41:30 - The expressive power of the blockchain Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpelRegina Harsanyi: https://x.com/reginaharsanyi           

Steve McKeon, a partner at Collab+Currency and former finance professor, dives into the thrilling intersection of art and investment. He shares his intriguing journey from the dot-com boom to the wine industry, ultimately discovering crypto. The conversation reveals the rise of NFTs and the birth of Glitch, exploring how passion shapes investment theses. McKeon reflects on collectability in digital art, the influence of traditional sculpture, and the future of digital culture, highlighting the evolving NFT landscape and the importance of community in art.

03:00 - Luba Elliott on Terence Broad 04:15 - Autoencoding Blade Runner 09:25 - Machine learning in 2016 12:31 - Arriving at the crossroads of technology and art 15:35 - Why Blade Runner? 19:05 - Luba and Terrence's collaboration through Feral File 22:06 - (un)stable equilibrium 25:00 - The conceptual journey behind the work 29:50 - Imperfect copies and more constraints 31:35 - The construction of the final video pieces 34:55 - A renewed mainstream interest in the work 40:01 - Looping in latent space 41:49 - Future explorations around (un)stable equilibrium 44:53 - The possibilities NFTs open up for a digital practice  https://x.com/terrybroad https://x.com/elluba https://verse.works/series/un-stable-equilibrium-by-terence-broad?itemId=07c502f4-8cec-47bf-9eac-8a9c0d2a0bc0