Dank Rares Blockchain Art Podcast

New Art Academy was founded in 2017 with a simple idea in mind: to make education about art and innovative technology available and accessible to professionals around the world.

Today they host regular panel discussions, lectures and conferences on the topics ranging from Art and Blockchain to Artificial Intelligence. 

I will be at their conference NYC ArtTech + Blockchain Connect 2018 on Oct 24th. Hope to see you there!

In this episode I speak with DADA.nyc founder Bea Ramos.

DADA is a social network where people from around the world speak to each other through drawings that you can collect on the Ethereum blockchain. Where other social art platforms are designed to share finished results (we never see how the sausage is made), DADA is skewed towards the artistic process - the making and building of creative muscle. Bea and her team have built a remarkable community that feels more like a family than a social platform

In this episode I talk with Coin Artist, famous for her crypto puzzle painting“TORCHED H34R7S” which contained $50k in Bitcoin and was unlocked after three years of people trying to solve it. Coin Artist is one of the earliest and best known crypto artists and is responsible along with Rob Myers for popularizing the crypto puzzle genre.

KnownOrigin is part of a new breed of art marketplaces built on the blockchain. With Known Origin, blockchain and "digital scarcity" enable art lovers to collect digital art that is provably rare, opening up new channels for supporting artists and building your collection. Unlike many other blockchain-based marketplaces, KnownOrigin is carefully designing a bridge from traditional art sales to a blockchain-based art marketplace by having a physical presence with popup events in major cities globally.

Anne Bracegirdle, Christie’s Associate Vice President of Photographs, is a blockchain enthusiast (and CryptoArt supporter) and has an optimistic view of the blockchain's potential for the photography market.

Along with her colleagues, Anne has put together a summit "Art + Tech" in London this July 17th titled, "Exploring the Blockchain: Is the Art World Ready for Consensus?" At the summit, Anne will be giving a keynote address titled "The Blockchain Landscape in the Art World."

SuperRare makes it easy to create, sell, and collect rare digital art. Their smart contract platform allows artists to release limited-edition digital artwork tracked on the blockchain, making the art rare, verified and collectible. In this episode I interview founders Jon Perkins and John Crain about what motivated them to create the market and where they see the blockchain art space going in the future.

The Forever Rose by artist Kevin Abosch sold on Valentines Day for $1 million. The sale captured the headline "...The World's Most Expensive Virtual Art".

I had a chance to interview Kevin about his thoughts on the Forever Rose and the potential for blockchain and art. Kevin explained how the Forever Rose project came about, but wanted to start with his I Am A Coin project to provide the proper background.

Archetype allows anyone to create their own cryptographic tokens representing memes, art, or any kind of information imaginable. In this episode I speak with Archetype Founder Jason Rosenstein. This conversation was early in my experience with blockchain and art and I had a lot of questions about how things work. Jason was extremely patient and helpful in answering them. My hope is that this episode will help others who have similar questions to learn more about the space.

Just a few short months ago there were quite literally just a handful of people with experience and knowledge of both blockchain and the traditional art market. Jess Houlgrave, Co-founder & COO at Codex Protocol, was so far ahead of the curve on this front that the curve did not exist yet when she began her exploration. Codex is a blockchain based decentralized title registry for Art & Collectibles.

How do I turn my creativity into money? Stellabelle started Slothicorn to help artists find an answer to that question. An artist herself, Stellabelle was able to escape the traditional 9-5 slog when she became a successful early contributor to Steemit. Stellabelle leverages her authority in Steemit to monetarily reward artistic contributions and encourages artists to contribute to Creative Commons.