Waiting To Be Signed

Waiting To Be Signed

By Willpop + TrinityTechnology
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Waiting To Be Signed episodes

  • E80 - Love, Light & Shilling

    Welcome to your weekly gen-art recap episode. This week we discuss:

    • fx(hash) funding announcement, our interview with Ciphrd, and deleted tweets
    • Our guesses and takes of Proof Grails season 4.
    • Fold by Rudxane finally releases to huge success (and Blur farming)
    • Rebellion by Melissa Wiederrecht and the return of surprise drops on fx(hash)
    • The massive success of the Zach Lieberman exhibition on Verse
    • The Unit London exhibition that features a few artists we know from fx(hash) + the associated drops from Marcelo Rodriguez on fx(hash)
    • Shout Outs to Rich Poole for Manu and Gabriel for Follow My Lead


      • Episode Art: Fold #196 by Rudxane

      Follow us on twitter @waitingtosign and instagram @waitingtobesigned

      Support us by donating to wtbs.tez and/or wtbs.eth and mint our show notes on fx(hash)

      Intro and Outro music by Pixelwank

      1 hr
    • Unlocking A Generative Future: Interview with Ciphrd

      Welcome to our third interview episode with Ciphrd, the creator of fx(hash). In this episode we discuss the the recently announced funding that will be used to expand fx(hash) to the Ethereum blockchain along with other features slated for the fx(hash) 2.0 release. We also get Ciphrd's take on the current generative art NFT ecosystem, the recent influx of new platforms, and ideas for future-proofing fx(hash) for the next bear market. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did. Big thanks to Ciphrd and the team for coordinating this episode with us.

      Episode Art: RGB #1 by Ciphrd

      Follow Ciphrd and fx(hash) on Twitter and join the fx(hash) Discord for access to the amazing community there.

      Follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign and Instagram @waitingtobesigned

      Intro & Outro music by Pixelwank

      56 min
    • E79 - Back From Hiatus

      Will & Trinity are back from ~5 weeks off and ready to recap the latest events in generative art. In this episode we discuss:

      • The interviews we released in July + one yet to drop
      • The Prohibition launch + platform roundup!
      • The Jackson Pollock NFT thing
      • Tez Etherlink & Metamask integration + how little we understand about all this
      • Monthly Market Update!
      • Will got a Frame + Pickups!
      • The Vera Molnar release with Sotheby's
      • Gumbo by Mathias Isakson (Art Blocks Curated)
      • Interference by Phaust (Tonic)
      • Of That Ilk by Krankarta x Tender
      • TVMOIF by Thomas Noya (fxhash)
      • The Source by Camille Roux x Matthieu Segret (GM DAO)
      • Liminal Rooms by Lisa Orth (Alba)
      • Looking ahead to new works by Jeres, Pataak and Rudxane

        • Twitter: @WaitingToSign

        Instagram: @waitingtobesigned

        Donations: wtbs.tez && wtbs.eth

        Episode Art: Themes and Variations #73 by Vera Molnar x Martin Grasser

        Intro & Outro tracks by Pixelwanks

        1 hr 10 min
      • Living With Images: Interview with Zach Lieberman

        Another hot interview to end the August podcast hiatus. Will & Trinity had the excellent opportunity to sit down with Zach Lieberman just ahead of his Verse Solos exhibition, Studies in Color, Light and Geometry. We talk to Zach about using the blockchain to preserve art, what he looks for when curating work for release, the challenges of long form, the importance of prints and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode. Big thanks to Zach for taking the time to record with us!

        Follow Zach on Twitter @zachlieberman and instagram to check out all the amazing works in progress he shares.

        Follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign and instagram @waitingtobesigned

        Consider donating to support the show: wtbs.eth and wtbs.tez

        Intro and Outro music by Pixelwank

        49 min
      • Creating Decentralized Art: Interview with Harvey Rayner

        Trinity & Will sit down with Harvey Rayner for a special interview episode. We dig into Harvey's background in art and coding, obsession with geometry, generative color, and his upcoming Verse Solos exhibition, Quasi Dragon Studies. It was particularly fun for us to discuss the unique release and building components of QDS, Harvey's hopes and fears for the project, and a nice detour into our shared passion for bouldering :)

        Big thanks to Harvey for coming on the show and to the Verse team for helping bring us together.

        Follow Harvey on Twitter @harvey_rayner and check out his other work at pattern.co

        Follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign and consider donating to the show at wtbs.tez or wtbs.eth

        1 hr 5 min
      • Unlocking A Generative Future: Interview with Ciphrd, Founder of fx(hash)

        Will and Trinity are joined by fx(hash) founder Ciphrd for the third time. There has been a lot happening behind the scenes an the fx(hash) team is ready to share some big announcements as well as some of their future plans for the platform. In this episode we discuss:

        • Ciphrd's excitement for the potential of fx(params)
        • fx(hash) bringing on new developers and shifting focus to collector tools
        • fx(hash) funding announcement!!!
        • fx(hash) 2.0, the Ethereum integrations & the current state of the generative art NFT ecosystem.
        • The differences between ETH & TEZ, on-chain art and IPFS
        • How the move to ETH could impact Tezos
        • How fx(hash) might evolve to survive the next bear market
        • New Ciphrd drop?

          • Follow fx(hash) on twitter @fx_hash_

          Follow us on twitter @waitingtosign



          56 min
        • The Technology of Poetry: Interview with Sasha Stiles & Nathaniel Stern

          Will & Trinity sit down with creative partners Sasha Stiles (sashastiles.com) & Nathaniel Stern (nathanielstern.com) for an epic interview. In this episode we discuss:

          • The creative background of both artists and how they came to become collaborators
          • Nathaniel's "The World After Us" show
          • Sasha's relationship with A.I. as a collaborator and student
          • What is poetry and how is it influenced by new media disciplines
          • Using Midjourney & Stable Diffusion & the issues and appeal of prompt-based systems
          • Mother Computer & exploring the relationship between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence
          • A.I. Language models and entering the era of the next great language leap\
          • The challenges of selling ambitious work in the NFT ecosystem & the forces of value
          • The story of 0RAL B1N4RY on fx(hash)
          • Pushing back on what "generative art" looks like
          • The potential of fx(params)
          • Sci-Fi recommendations!

            • Follow Sasha on Twitter @sashastiles and follow Nathaniel @nathanielstern

            Check out (and consider minting) their Art Blocks Curated release Still Moving

            Find their Tezos work on fx(hash) here and here and on OBJKT here and here

            Follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign and Instagram/Threads @waitingtobesigned

            Consider supporting the show by donating to wtbs.tez or wtbs.eth




            1 hr 30 min
          • E78 - Goodbye For July

            WTBS is taking a brief summer break to rest, relax, and reinvigorate the show! We will still be releasing interviews at our usual cadence & our next planned weekly episode will be for August 8. A little rundown of what we discuss in this episode:

            • The July Hiatus
            • fx(hash) 2.0 announcement... ETH is coming
            • On-Chain vs. IPFS and the potential implications for fx(hash) 2.0
            • Vera Molnar long-form generative release on Sotheby's
            • Quarterly Market Update!
            • Ty Vek is back with the "Self" trilogy
            • Spazio/Colore drop on Alba
            • Invisibles by Ismahelio & World Flag by John Gerrard on Art Blocks
              • 1 hr 2 min
            • Digital. Mechanical. Kinetic. Materialized: Interview with Andreas Gysin

              We are excited to share this interview with Andreas Gysin with you on the same day that Verse debuts their first Solos exhibition with him and his creative partner Sidi Vanetti. Their show, Materialized, showcases a variety of physical pieces along with a new long-form generative project Wayfinder. In this interview we learn the origin of the partnership between Andreas and Sidi, their obsession with restrictions, the semiotics of ascii art, and plenty more.

              Learn more about Andreas and Sidi on their website

              Follow Andreas on Twitter @andreasgysin and check out his personal website as well https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/

              Twitter: @WaitingToSign

              Instagram: @waitingtobesigned

              Donations: wtbs.tez && wtbs.eth

              Intro music by The Gas Station, as heard in *Sunset Dancers* by Laurean0

              Outro music "Always Be Listed" by Pixelwank

              1 hr 10 min
            • E77 - "Cue the Olivia"

              Good friends, good art, good audio, good times. This week your hosts are "getting physical" with the launch of redeemable tokens on fx(hash)! In this episode we discuss, in roughly this order:

              • Car trips and the Otherworld podcast
              • Redeemable tokens on fx(hash), the launch of fx(Versa) ++ Le Random
              • A little more platform talk, which is our right!
              • Big success with Alba's first week of the Flatlands exhibition
              • Trinity shills the AB Curated Dopamine Machines by Steve Pikelny
              • Nuages possibles by Joanie Lemercier
              • Who is Fakewhale and what we liked about their curated release on objkt
              • Somewhere in Between by GorillaSun && Si-operator by HAL09999, our two favorites from the Proof of X event releases
              • Machine-hearted by Ivona Tau, her first long form AI project (that we can think of)
              • “Simple Thoughts” exhibition by Khwampa on Verse, insane MS Paint art!

                • Twitter: @WaitingToSign

                Instagram: @waitingtobesigned

                Donations: wtbs.tez && wtbs.eth

                Episode Art: Folds within Folds by Khwampa

                Intro music by The Gas Station, as heard in *Sunset Dancers* by Laurean0

                Outro music "Always Be Listed" by Pixelwank

                1 hr 6 min

              About Waiting To Be Signed

              From the publisher's feed

              Waiting To Be Signed is a weekly podcast about generative art on the blockchain. Every week we release an episode covering new releases we love, the news & happenings of the space, hot topics & more. We also release bi-weekly interview episodes with artists, collectors and builders in the space.