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Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms, patterns & architectural structures. His works are published on SuperRare, Foundation, and Objkt, having been collected by some of the most notable NFT collectors in the space.Sam Mason de Caires is an engineer who’s into generative art. Presently at Syndicate DAO, and previously at Foundation and Rainbow.Together they are 2/4ths of Gossamer. Along with their friends Tim Smith and FEELS, they are a collective who are collecting art together as a DAO. View their collection at gossamerdao.xyzIn this episode we talk about art and the web3 space. About Nicolas’ artistic practice, and how he makes his works. How technology is enabling new ways to create, collect, and support artistic expression. And what kinds of art Sam and Nicolas are interested in for Gossamer.SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.ioLens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz

Martí Ruids is a musician and sound artist. Professor and researcher in the sculpture department at the Universitat de Barcelona. With more than a decade of experience with sound sculptures and working with masters in Japan.Member of Híbrida, Nen i Cavall. Part of a duet band RIUH with Raquel Cruces performing traditional folk music from the Iberian Peninsula. Member of Pangalmelan, exploring gamelan music from Indonesia, using pots and pans to create unique instruments, rhythm, pitch and percussion, achieving trance like states.We met in July in Barcelona in fortuitous circumstances, on the way in to see Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s new band ~ The Smile at Pablo Espanyol.In this episode we talk about experimental music. Sound and resonance. How it effects consciousness. The very nature of reality. Martí's work reviving Baschet Sound Sculptures with concerts in Japan. And exploring the realms of traditional music from Iberia, across places in Catalunya, Basque country, and Portugal.SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.ioLens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz

ATARA, aka Johannes Saam, is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist.With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art, and most recently as co-founder of a new NFT collection ~ DALL-E Punks.Reimagining the iconic CryptoPunks through a visual AI engine stack to create a new interpretation, reflecting the traits of the originals, such as hoodies, cigarette and eye patch ~ only that each image is now totally unique, and the eye patch prompts turned into pirates.In this episode we talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks.SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.ioLens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz

Peacenode is a designer and graphic artist at Seed Club and Songcamp.Seed Club is the leading network for DAO builders and operators, with an alumni of DAO projects including Cabin, Poolsuite, Water and Music, Metalabel, Krause House and many others.Songcamp is a music community focused on collective creation, who recently staged CHAOS ~ an experiment with 77 collaborators forming a headless band outputting music NFTs, with revenue going out to artists via split contracts.In this episode, we talk with Peace about his origin stories in crypto, background in the music scene, about creative practice and making poster designs for over 200 days straight, how he got involved at Seed Club and Songcamp, and a jam about projects we’re into like Nouns Builder from Zora.__SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains.  Get started at zerion.io/~Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create.Visit lens.xyz

Reka is a co-founder at Guild, the ultimate tool for platformless memberships and quests for internet communities.Guild expands the creative possibilities for assembling as a group. Helping to drive the web3 space forwards with tools which allow DAOs to evolve beyond financialised token communities as the only available option for managing access and participation in projects.Reka writes about communities, DAOs and internet culture and has just dropped a new series on Mirror - chaos is a public good - co-written with her friend, LDF from DISCO.In this episode, we talk about the origin stories of Guild, how their team came together, what they’re focused on building, new integrations with projects such as Otterspace, and Reka’s interest in Jokedao and $JOKE race.__SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains.  Get started at zerion.io/~Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create.Visit lens.xyz

Alexander Guy is head of marketing and growth at Zerion, a Smart, Social Web3 Wallet. This is a place to manage your crypto, DeFi and NFT portfolios. Trade across multichain and connect to any decentralized application.In this episode we get into the crypto lifestyle. Why we think it’s a compelling space to be potentially looking to join a company or create a project. We talk about common pitfalls of the crypto lifestyle like FOMO, always being on, stress about security, excessive time on social  and information input, and challenges in getting up to speed when you’re new and joining crypto.Meeting the Zerion team at ETH Barcelona in July, Alex was telling me about their new mobile crypto wallet and how the platform is extra helpful for web3 citizens. People active in DAOs, token communities and NFTs. I was preparing UFO for launch at that time, and we created a collaboration with Zerion as a sponsor of UFO.__SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains.  Get started at zerion.io/~Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create.Visit lens.xyz

Austin Robey is a member of the founding squad at Metalabel. An assembly of founders, creators and producers emerging from the web2 economy, now helping to amplify the meme of the metalabel. Imagined as a release club where groups of people with shared interests create and release work together.Sometimes it’s more fun to create things as part of a collective, and often you can have a stronger cultural impact by working as a group under a collective banner or label. A metalabel allows groups of people to join together, and pool their skills and resources and audiences in support of a larger vision or purpose. Creativity in multiplayer mode …Austin is a writer who explores ideas about collective internet culture for publications including Forefront, and Friends With Benefits, and most recently for Metalabel’s brand new publication, PUBLIC RECORD. The article is ‘Evolution of the solopreneur’, examining examples such as Water & Music, Song A DAO, and Songcamp with their 77-member band, headless CHAOS.__SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains.  Get started at zerion.io/~Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create.Visit lens.xyz

Nyx is a co-founder of Crypto Coven, focusing mostly on art, code and lore for an NFT collection of 9999 witches created by five friends. A compelling force of storytelling which sparked a community to  expand upon their world.In 2021, Nyx and her friend Alethia, both artists, had been in lockdown together and decided they wanted to create a pfp NFT collection. One that was female forward. They were intrigued by what was happening in NFTs, but didn’t identify themselves with the various ape and cartoon characters that were happeningAlethia suggested they create a project around witches. A group formed to bring the collection to life. Joining Alethia and Nyx were Xuannü, Aradia and Keridwen. Within 2 months, and many nights of art, design, coding and storytelling, everything had come together.In this episode, we talk about all the ins and outs of a project like this from the inside perspective. The power of lore, storytelling and world building. And what can be accomplished in smart contract design and doing creative things with the tech.__SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains.  Get started at zerion.io/~Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create.Visit lens.xyz

Charlie Waterhouse is a co-founder of the Art Group and Media team at Extinction Rebellion based in London. He’s Creative director of This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, and a director of the Brixton Pound.In this episode, we talk about the origins of Extinction Rebellion, a global movement using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to take action on climate, and inspire public consciousness to the cause.We explore how design and art played a part in its formation. And direct actions such as the recent protest at the House Of Commons in the UK, in which activists glued themselves to each other around the speaker's chair.We also talk about learnings that may be taken from web3 and DAOs, and lines drawn between 60s counterculture, punk and current day social movements.__SPONSORSZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains.  Get started at zerion.io/~Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create.Visit lens.xyz