Verse Talks

00:35 - Welcome Rafaël Rozendaal 

02:55 - The advantage of a conversational archive 

06:21 - The influence of travel and cultural heritage 

08:25 - Neen, LA and digital art in the late '90s 

12:06 - Growing up in an artistic household 

14:32 - Grants, funding and commercial pressure 

16:35 - The potential of the early internet 

21:00 - Art school and early connections 

27:30 - Berlin and Post-Internet 

31:30 - The impact of New York on a working practice 

35:36 - A window to the creative process 

38:15 - The importance of painting 

40:21 - The power of a minimal approach 

42:15 - Discovering blockchain and NFTs 

45:01 - A new audience and a new perspective 

49:55 - Papertoilet.com and unintended virality 

56:40 - Quantifying effort, success and quality 

59:50 - MoMa and allowing the space to curate the work 

01:01:45 - Twist 

01:03:20 - Thinking with your brush 

01:05:15 - The origin of Rooms 

01:07:40 - Colour, saturation, contrast and iteration 

01:10:53 - The advantage of working with a gallery 

01:16:26 - What's next 

Rafaël Rozendaal: https://x.com/newrafael 

Fellowship: https://x.com/fellowshiptrust 

https://fellowship.xyz/exhibition/rafael-rozendaal-rooms

00:46 - Welcome Jared Madere 

03:19 - The genesis of Yeche Lange 

09:20 - Market consolidation and post-2021 

11:00 - Exploring the role of the gallery in the Web3 space 

16:18 - What caused the scene to develop on Solana 

18:03 - The growth of community 

21:59 -  Earl16o1, trader fiction and chart paintings 

25:35 - Compatibility with the traditional sphere 

31:40 - A new mode of operating for a changing art world 

40:20 - Market transparency vs. market opacity 

46:33 - Embracing risk and volatility 

50:35 - Looking to the future of Yeche and VVV 

58:15 - The reuse of assets and creation of derivatives 

01:03:55 - The development of art coins 

01:06:30 - Series sizing and artistic output 

01:09:40 - VAJ and Vajunnie 

01:15:20 - The growth of the scene and new collectors 

01:23:53 - The origin of the term Gay NFT 

01:26:40 - How people outside the space can orientate themselves 

01:31:45 - The importance of physicality and living with art  

VVV: https://x.com/vvvdotso

Galerie Yeche Lange: https://x.com/yeche_lange 

wretched worm: https://x.com/wretched_worm

spiky dj: https://x.com/spiky_dj_

Bosh: https://x.com/supermetalx 

kid xanthrax: https://x.com/id_xanthrax

Parker Ito: https://x.com/creamydreamy

earl16o1: https://x.com/earl16o1

Tojiba Brand Manager: https://x.com/m_m_____m____mm

mifella: https://x.com/mmifella

evil biscuit: https://x.com/bis__cut

fairybaby420: https://x.com/fairybaby420

lowbie: https://x.com/archivepilled

Gremlins: https://x.com/gremlins2movie

Alex Mackin Dolan: https://www.alexmackindolan.com

Vajunnie: https://x.com/vaj_mindpalace

00:47 - Welcome Paul Pfeiffer 

03:07 - The spectacle of sport 

07:06 - Exploring the implications of new technology 

10:05 - Working with digital media in the early 1990s 

14:50 - The blurring of the digital and the human 

20:08 - How media consumption has shifted across the last thirty years 

23:50 - The stadium as mediatised architecture 

30:57 - New work and developing projects     

Paul Pfeiffer: https://www.instagram.com/pmp2021  

00:48 - Diving into the Solana trenches 

07:40 - PFP culture and Drilady 

08:50 - Chain-specific culture and why Solana makes sense 

14:26 - Parker Ito and the impact of Horses?2 

17:00 - A different community of artists and collectors 

19:00 - Jay's mid-curve meme 

20:34 - Raoul Pal and consensus vs non-consensus 

27:40 - Should we all be bullposting? 

29:40 - AB[500] and does shuttering encourage long-term value accrual 

32:55 - Verse rundown 

35:08 - Debriefing on Quantizer 

40:37 - Feral File and Net Evil 

42:30 - Solo vs group shows 

45:20 - Artist highlights 

MCHX: https://x.com/mchx17 

supermetalx: https://x.com/supermetalx 

serezha galkin: https://x.com/graphicapng 

Terence Broad: https://x.com/terrybroad 

Mike Balzer: https://x.com/pxlshrd

00:38 - Welcome Parker Ito 

05:25 - Tumblr, Post-Internet scene and finding community 

12:20 - The effect of early success 

20:30 - Disillusionment with the art world 

24:25 - What caused the market to boom 

26:28 - Deep lore, Basel 2015 and Leonardo DiCaprio 

30:01 - The compromises needed to work as an artist 

33:03 - Through-lines and stylistic tropes 

35:10 - A non-hierarchical approach 

38:17 - Discovering NFTs 

39:50 - Balancing the traditional art world and the NFT space  

42:27 - Cultural friction and the benefit to the stigma around NFTs 

46:00 - Finding the Solana scene 

48:17 - Horses, Drifella 2, Drilady and Parkerito.net

52:55 - The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble 

58:10 - Traitmaxxing, repetition and composition 

01:01:55 - The working process of the Living Room Crucifixion 

01:10:50 - Ambiguity within the art work 

01:13:17 - The work as a metaphor for a psychological space 

01:16:15 - Objects, layers and series traits 

01:19:01 - Beyond Living Room Crucifixion 

01:21:20 - The artist residency at the Bellagio 

Parker Ito: https://x.com/creamydreamy 

https://verse.works/series/the-pilgrims-living-room-crucifixion-mona-lisa-hyper-gamble-by-parker-ito

00:48 - Welcome Adam Levine 

01:15 - What sets the Toledo Museum of Art apart 

05:22 - Ensuring the community has access to culture 

07:20 - The benefit of private funding 

10:10 - TMA's digital program 

13:25 - The history and founding principles of the museum 

21:20 - An emphasis on craft, skill and aesthetic quality 

27:10 - Artist studios, manufacturing and industrial process 

31:20 - Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms 

33:40 - The Digital Artist-in-Residence Program and community onboarding 

43:23 - A focus on innovation and strategy 

46:10 - Adam's path to NFTs 

49:45 - Repeat visitation as a key performance metric 

54:40 - "Integrating art into people's lives" 

56:25 - Expanding the audience for digital art 

01:03:16 - Verse roundtable 

01:07:10 - Cultural accessibility, funding and profitability 

01:16:55 - Why Artie is exiting the space 

01:24:25 - Release cadence 

01:30:57 - The difficulty of finding sustainability as a platform 

01:37:20 - A maturation of the space 

01:41:30 - The potential for a reshaping of consensus around the blue chips 

01:44:55 - Harm van den Dorpel 

01:49:23 - Verse rundown 

01:50:25 - Artist highlights 

01:51:50 - Debriefing on Terence Broad 

Toledo Museum of Art: https://x.com/toledomuseum

noper: https://x.com/bagdelete 

Kevin McCoy: https://x.com/mccoyspace 

Jennifer McCoy: https://x.com/jennmccoyspace

00:40 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel 

01:35 - Working with plotters 

05:06 - Creative beginnings 

08:45 - A grounding in early AI 

11:20 - From tech to art school 

13:50 - The shifting context around digital presentation

16:10 - The development of post-internet art 

18:00 - Separating sales and practice 

22:40 - Markov's Window 

25:00 - Establishing Left gallery and discovering blockchain 

30:33 - The stress of managing a gallery 

32:01 - The importance of true digital ownership 

35:29 - Mutant Garden Seeder 

38:15 - Exploring Quantizer 

40:40 - Algorithmic archeology 

42:45 - Dithering and Quantizer's traits 

46:42 - Two seeds and a double system 

50:20 - The reason for artist curation 

52:02 - Mandalas, Buddhism and the influence on Quantizer 

56:00 - Transience and permanence 

58:20 - Surprise born from a system 

01:04:10 - Meditation machines 

01:08:12 - The relationship between an artists practice and the market 

01:09:55 - Defining the digital and physical worlds 

01:12:40 - Preserving a digital work 

01:15:43 - The thinking behind the series size 

01:19:45 - What's next? 

Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel  

Quantizer: https://verse.works/series/quantizer-by-harm-van-den-dorpel?itemId=2f5761c0-0e42-4457-a844-6bd9f854adf5

00:44 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel and Regina Harsanyi 

03:05 - Nasty Nets, Club Internet and the early surf clubs 

09:05 - Creating context and community through curation 

12:40 - Ongoing scepticism around blockchain and NFTs 

18:00 - Left Gallery, early blockchain based ownership and speculation 

20:10 - The speed of secondary in the digital world 

22:00 - On creating Quantizer 

27:10 - A true reflection of the blockchain and networked broadcast 

33:40 - The ideal way to display and experience the work 

41:30 - The expressive power of the blockchain 

Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel

Regina Harsanyi: https://x.com/reginaharsanyi 

00:35 - Welcome Steve McKeon 

02:25 - Navigating the dot-com boom and bust 

08:19 - A winding path to tenure 

13:20 - Discovering crypto 

15:50 - Writing Traditional Asset Tokenisation 

19:30 - The birth of Collab+Currency 

24:50 - A shift to consumer focus and NFTs 

28:30 - Equity vs tokens 

33:45 - The Art Blocks [500] 

36:15 - Collectibility and end caps 

38:05 - Traditional art, sculpture and Jim Dine 

45:20 - Donald Judd and Marfa 

49:30 - The birth of Glitch 

53:45 - An investment thesis based on passion 

55:33 - Collecting personally vs fund investment 

01:01:20 - The future of the space and growth of digital culture 

01:06:21 - Infrastructure companies, user lock-in and network effects 

01:11:11 - Verse round table 

01:12:25 - SOLOS points 

01:27:39 - Terence Broad and (un)stable equilibrium 

01:33:13 - Curatorial practice and thoughts on artist guidance 

01:42:44 - What is an NFT artist 

01:45:25 - Reclaiming the term NFT 

01:47:00 - Artist highlights pt 1

01:48:44 - Catching up on fxhash 

01:54:00 - Artist highlights pt 2 

01:55:35 - Verse rundown 

Steve McKeon: https://x.com/sbmckeon

AL: https://x.com/alekustn 

Mark Horowitz: https://www.instagram.com/marchorowitz 

Terence Broad: https://x.com/terrybroad 

Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel 

Jonathan Chomko: https://x.com/jtchomko 

benedict: https://x.com/ibenedictfuc12 

canek zapata: https://x.com/canekzapata 

Rocio Mio: https://x.com/rociomiobosque 

03:00 - Luba Elliott on Terence Broad 

04:15 - Autoencoding Blade Runner 

09:25 - Machine learning in 2016 

12:31 - Arriving at the crossroads of technology and art 

15:35 - Why Blade Runner? 

19:05 - Luba and Terrence's collaboration through Feral File 

22:06 - (un)stable equilibrium 

25:00 - The conceptual journey behind the work 

29:50 - Imperfect copies and more constraints 

31:35 - The construction of the final video pieces 

34:55 - A renewed mainstream interest in the work 

40:01 - Looping in latent space 

41:49 - Future explorations around (un)stable equilibrium 

44:53 - The possibilities NFTs open up for a digital practice  

https://x.com/terrybroad 

https://x.com/elluba 

https://verse.works/series/un-stable-equilibrium-by-terence-broad?itemId=07c502f4-8cec-47bf-9eac-8a9c0d2a0bc0