Michael Kozłowski, often known by mpkoz, is a media artist & software developer who works with real-time graphics, mixed reality, and interactivity. Michael joins Chuck for the final episode of 2023 to talk about the before and after of his professional life - working for years at Microsoft and in corporate settings then making the leap to fully independent artist in 2021. We discuss growing up in Montana, being a film major, on-the-job learning from the big brains he worked with at...

Diana Sinclair is an artist & photographer based in Jersey City, NJ. A personal favorite interview of mine, Diana shares her inspired journey both personally and creatively to this point in her life; at 19 years old she is the youngest guest to date, and is stunningly accomplished for such an early stage in one's career. Having already exhibited work with Christie's and worked with the likes of TIME and Meta, Diana's career is off to the races. She also discusses her relationship to...

ThankYouX (Ryan Wilson) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has risen to prominence in recent years thanks in large part to his innovative work combining physical and digital work in exciting new ways. Whether he's embedding an actual screen that contains digital artwork & an NFT into a large painting or bringing his brushstrokes to life with 3D and moving works, ThankYouX is constantly pushing boundaries and building bridges from screen to canvas and back again. We discuss all of this as...

All Seeing Seneca is a visual artist who rose to new levels of prominence after having conceptualized the original creative direction of the characters in Bored Ape Yacht Club, but there's so much more to her work and story than that. We get into her upbringing and how drawing and creativity tied in to her life, the impact of subcultures and music on her teen years as she was coming of age, her time at Rhode Island School of Design, freelancing after college, her wild entry into the world of...

Eric Elms is an artist, graphic designer, and creative director based in LA. He recently announced the launch of his new studio S.E.E. (Studio Eric Elms) and joins me to talk all about the name, the work, his process, how he distinguishes between his art practice and commercial design practice and how the two relate to each other. We also get into Eric's beginnings as a teenage assistant to and mentee of Shepard Fairey, a studio assistant to KAWS, and designer for Supreme and how those roles...

Benjamin Edgar is visionary multi-disciplined designer from Chicago and happens to be one of host Chuck Anderson's oldest friends. Having formed seminal early internet blog THE BRILLIANCE! together in 2005 (later joined by Virgil Abloh in 2006), Chuck and Benjamin have a storied history and much to talk about. An overarching point of discussion in this interview focuses around beginnings and the start of an idea. Benjamin has become well known for his wide-ranging object designs including a...

Shawna X is an American artist of Chinese descent, born in Xiamen and raised in Portland, Oregon, currently based in New York City. Shawna joins Chuck for episode 20 to talk about living in Chicago (briefly), where she thinks about living in the future and how location impacts artistic identity, finding time for work, focus and creativity as a parent, learning to work with glass, finding the confidence to introduce a new medium to the world as part of one’s existing artistic practice,...

Marc Horowitz is a prolific Los Angeles-based artist who works in painting, performance, sculpture, and much (much) more. We have a super fun, very wide-ranging talk about dreams and if you should tell people about them, growing up in the midwest and heading to LA, how he manages to work across so many mediums while avoiding worrying about categories, stopping painting to work in more experimental media and returning to it after a 12 year break, launching his own experimental crypto in 2015,...

Kyt is a visual artist from New York by way of Los Angeles. We talk about her very early obsession with the internet and computer art while being in a strict household and having that all kept at arm's length, her strained but ultimately successful journey through art school, being given the title "Junior Graphic Design Apprentice" at her first job, GIFs leading to work with Miley Cyrus, how meeting Flying Lotus led to a long relationship working with Adult Swim, starting and running her own...

Raihan Anwar is a co-founder of Friends With Benefits DAO, a dot connector, an artist & music manager, an MBA haver, and a fragrance designer; in other words, a wearer of many hats. We discuss the dawn of FWB, the current state of NFTs, only wanting what's weird, why forward-thinking artists should not be scared of AI, what to do during a sabbatical, and more.

Eric Hu is an art director & designer from New York whose genre-defining work and images have inspired visual culture across fashion, music, tech, and more over the last decade-plus. We have a wide-ranging conversation about forming new creative habits in the age of AI & web3, the challenging year that 2023 has been for so many artists, the up-and-down dissonance between being an employee and a freelancer, lessons he learned from his successful 'Monarchs' NFT project, and how...

Taylor Lorenz is a technology & internet culture journalist and author whose new book 'Extremely Online' comes out October 3, 2023 on Simon & Schuster. The book covers the birth of the 'influencer' and is the most thorough history-telling of social media and its stars from the early 00s to the present day. We talk about the wild amount of research that went into writing this book, her creative process and work-life balance during the course of working on it, the tortured process of...

Isaac Wright, aka Drift, is a photographer based in Jersey City, where he recorded this interview at his beautiful new studio space. We catch up about life for Drift after his infamous and much-documented wrongful incarceration experience from hell as well as his brother's recent passing, talk about his exciting new studio space, working on a photo book, memoir, and documentary all at once, the importance of contextualizing his photography with writing, navigating moves into the traditional...

Jesse Draxler is a mixed media and multidisciplinary artist who creates beautifully menacing, brutal, and romantic artwork, mostly in black-and-white, that has translated brilliantly over the years from physical to digital and back again. We discuss his journey from blue-collar midwestern Wisconsin to Los Angeles, learning HTML and Dreamweaver in the late 90's, navigating "The Algorithm" as a visual artist on social media, accepting crypto as payment for his work before NFTs existed, building...

pplpleasr, aka Emily Yang, is a director and 3D artist influenced by anime, video games, underground music, and traditional Asian art. We talk about her nomadic living situation, the impact of her environment on her work, bypassing traditional paths and a career spent finding backdoors, coming of age in the public eye of the NFT boom, forming her studio Shibuya with one of her favorite artists Maciej Kuciara to help change the way films are made, working with Bruce Lee's daughter, and her...

A conversation with Sean Walton aka Osean, an artist, musician, and the creator of OseanWorld. We chat about how different generations have harnessed the internet to learn, not sleeping for days to work on projects with friends, touring the country with friends, and turning a love of drawing and anime into a full-fledged career.

A conversation with designer, artist, and creator of VisualizeValue, Jack Butcher. We talk about how a growing family impacts creative habits, what led to Jack’s love of design as a teenager, corporate decks as ironic inspiration, launching a project like Checks just as his daughter was born, scaling and evolving that project, and how the internet has shaped his writing and relationships.

A conversation with Lindsay Howard and Eileen Isagon Skyers of Gemma, an artist-led fund that perpetuates creativity. We chat about when they knew it was time to begin their own endeavor, how being called founders for the first time made them realize untapped potential, and their approach to curating and supporting artists in their creative processes.

A conversation with the legend Jen Stark. We talk about her life's journey in creativity and arriving at her signature style, the evolution of her work through physical and digital mediums, navigating the NFT space, and we play a game of "Guess what you answered when Chuck last interviewed you in 2007."

A conversation with John Palmer & Danny Aranda, co-founders of PartyDAO. We discuss the concept of multi-player crypto, the unfulfilled promise of social coordination with Ethereum, and what kinds of creative new efforts they're seeing get built with Party.

A conversation with acclaimed artist Victor Solomon. We discuss how his basketball-inspired fine art, trophy designs, and work for the NBA has skyrocketed him to notoriety across the intersection of art, fashion, and sports over the last several years.

A conversation with ZORA cofounder Dee Goens about navigating a career in crypto from the earliest days, the evolution of ZORA, what is here to stay and what is a trend in NFTs, the importance of provenance and digital ownership, and some NBA talk.

A conversation with artist, tattooer, and creative director David Allen about wild career pivots, working independently vs being a company person, learning patience through painting, tattooing with empathy, and what are we even doing with NFTs.

A conversation with Maria Paula Fernandez, co-founder of JPG (https://jpg.space/) and retired co-founder of ETHBerlin about curation in the nascent NFT art market, being built for the bear, how learning hurts, and defining success.