Vaulted by PROOF

Pindar talks to Kevin about his AI process, including the introduction of feedback loops. He touches on his feeling around imposter syndrome in the digital AI world and early influences from the earlier "digital art brat pack."

Kevin chats with August Rosedale, the owner of Mirage Gallery, and the AI artists "Alejandro" and "Taylor." The two fictional AI-generated personas create crypto-native evolving art. August discusses using Open AI to create art as well as a complete persona behind the generated art. He also touches on the legal and moral thought experiment of intellectual property of AI outputs based on large existing datasets.

Kevin Rose chats with Sarah Zucker on creating her unique voice in the art world. Sarah discusses the art of "quality degradation," The current glitch art community, platform loyalty, and the importance of NFT authenticity validation.

Kevin interviews Dmitri Cherniak, creator of the Ringers project. The Ringers series comprises 1,000 generative art NFTs made up of automatically generated "strings and pegs." Dmitri discusses his early influences, how the projects are generated utilizing his p5js script, and his take on where generative art fits into the traditional art world.

"Chris" from Flamingo DAO breaks down his thesis on why long-term holding is the key to value accrual. They also cover the historical importance of key NFTs.

Kevin chats with 4156 about his new project 'Nouns DAO'. "Nouns are an experimental attempt to improve the formation of on-chain avatar communities. While projects such as Cryptopunks have attempted to bootstrap digital community and identity, Nouns attempt to bootstrap identity, community, governance, and a treasury that can be used by the community for the creation of long-term value."

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Kevin interviews Justin Aversano, artist advocate and creator of the Twin Flames photography NFT series, created as his healing project as his twin died in-utero. They discuss how Justin has built one of the most influential discord groups in the NFT space, his invite process to connect personally with everyone involved. In addition, his Brooklyn, NY, based SaveArtSpace nonprofit turns commercial billboards into community art space.

Sebastian Brocher talks to Kevin about his early ethereum generative art project, CryptoArte. According to minting dates on the blockchain, this is the second generative art project known to exist on ethereum. In this episode, they discuss how CryptoArte visualizes the data stored in the blockchain to create unique NFTs.

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John Crain, CEO of SuperRare, chats with Kevin about the platform's community, open and curated marketplace, lost AI artwork, NFT fractionalization, open-editions, and the game changing $Rare governance token announcement.