His first art piece was a huge party - and his following creations were no less surprising! French artist Ben Elliot believes building an artistic career is the same as building a brand. He has created the Ben Elliot Shop, the Ben Elliot Water, and his own cryptocurrency, apart from the ambitious project Metaone. In this episode of Unlocked, Delfina Sena investigates his avant-garde working process. 

Tam Gryn is all about developing mind-blowing projects at the intersection between art and other industries. Over the past years, the Venezuelan curator has been finding solutions to the million-dollar question: how to find new financial models for artists to survive and culture to keep evolving? In this compelling conversation with Pauline Foessel, she also explains how and why she came to write the bible “How to Create and Sell NFTs, A Guide For All Artists”, published in 2022. 

Spanish digital creator, designer, and curator Diego Iglesias Gomez runs one-of-a-kind projects linking architecture to digital technologies. In the second episode of Unlocked, he discusses with Delfina Sena about his out-of-the-box Hyper Studio, as well as Madrid’s Urban Digital Arts Festival. His critical mind -"The majority of the NFT world is white, heteronormative and male," he says -, led him to create projects which question and propose new patterns of behaviour in the digital space. 

In the inaugural chapter of Unlocked, our host Pauline Foessel interviews the brilliant Fernando Magalhães aka MGXS, the Lisbon-based visual artist who, in his first drop, sold nothing less than 10.000 digital works in 4 minutes! "One person mad enough can achieve gigantic possibilities!", he says. Passionate about technology since his childhood, MGXS discusses generative art, AI and his most famous series of works, Genesis [GNSS].