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How OG Crypto Artist Rhea Myers Sold a Never-Seen Artwork at Sotheby's - Ep.274

09.21.2021 - By Laura ShinPlay

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Rhea Myers, artist, hacker, writer, and senior smart contract developer at Dapper Labs, has been making crypto art before NFTs were a thing. Check out this episode to learn about Rhea’s work as an OG crypto artist, why she believes concerns over NFT energy consumption are overblown, and how NFTs are changing the art world. Show highlights

Rhea’s experience entering the crypto space

what inspired her to make Bitcoin-based transaction art

what blockchain art she was creating in 2014

how she helped Coin Artist create crypto puzzles

what Rhea thinks about Cadence, the programming language for Flow

what conceptual art and blockchain art have in common

how Rhea minted her soul on a Dogecoin fork

how Rhea came up with the idea of Secret Artwork (Content), which was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction

what cryptographic elements influenced Secret Artwork (Content)

why Rhea was wrong about how the NFT industry would evolve

why Rhea believes concerns over NFT energy usage are overblown

how NFTs are changing the art world 

what Rhea thinks about the NFT DAO movement

what about NFTs make them so fascinating, in a legal sense, to Rhea

 

Read the sidebar — and see Rhea's artwork!

If you'd like to see the art discussed in the show, be sure to check out the sidebar I wrote on Medium: 

https://medium.com/@laurashin/how-rhea-myers-made-blockchain-art-before-nfts-were-a-thing-e6ac52d3abf9

 

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Episode Links

 

Rhea Myers

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rheaplex

Website: https://rhea.art/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertmyers/

Example Art

Secret Artwork (Content)

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/natively-digital-a-curated-nft-sale-2/secret-artwork-content 

MYSOUL

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/nft-joke-1234588596/ 

Is Art

https://rhea.art/is-art 

Proof Of Existence 2, 2014, Bitcoin Transaction

https://rhea.art/proof-of-existence 

Art examples

https://rhea.art/art

 

Other

Artists Rethinking the Blockchain (book)

https://torquetorque.net/publications/artists-rethinking-the-blockchain/ 

Generative art (featuring Rhea Myers)

https://medium.com/@mitchellfchan/nfts-generative-art-and-sol-lewitt-e99a5fa2b0cb 

Blockade games + crypto puzzles

​​https://blockade.games/press/index.html

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.4528357/this-painting-is-actually-a-bitcoin-puzzle-worth-more-than-40k-and-someone-finally-solved-it-1.4529176 

Unchained Episode: What Exactly Do You Get When You Buy an NFT? Three Lawyers Discuss

https://unchainedpodcast.com/what-exactly-do-you-get-when-you-buy-an-nft-three-lawyers-discuss/

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