Waiting To Be Signed

Public Art & The Dance Between The Virtual and the Real: Interview with artist John Gerrard & Whitney Hart of Feral File

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In this episode we discuss:

  • John's history in art and simulation
  • Whitney's career in art and how she came to Feral File
  • The story of Western Flag becoming tokenized & John's decision to make NFTs
  • Reconciling the ecological cost of NFTs by supporting environmental initiatives & relationships with power
  • John's first tokenized work on the Bitmark chain
  • The two main issues that Whitney encounters when talking about NFTs to artists and collectors from the traditional world
  • The need for galleries and art fairs to catch up with the contemporary scene as it becomes increasingly digital
  • An overview of crystalline work (arctic) and the generative aspects of the performance
  • How Feral File worked with John to bring this experiment to life
  • Reconciling works that require patience against a population with a diminishing attention span
  • Time, data, the dating system for crystalline work and billionaires turning our consciousness into light
  • Newgrange
  • Blockchain as an alternative to oil-backed currencies with the potential to be a globally uniting force (...and pirates!)
  • The complicated dance between the unreal and the real

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    Episode Art: crystalline work (arctic) 24.2.1.0 by John Gerrard

    Intro & Outro tracks by PixelWank

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