Summer Wagner is a photographer and fine artist from the Rust Belt region of the Midwest. Her artwork has a mystical quality to it, blurring lines between fantasy and reality, conscious and sub-conscious. Since bringing her art to the blockchain in 2021, she has been featured across Art Basel, Christie's, and several galleries, releasing collections including her most extensive one yet - Midamerican Fever Dream. She calls herself a director of rituals, and this interview takes place prior...

Harvey Rayner is an English artist with multiple decades of digital and generative art experience. Within the past several years he has released series across Christie's, Sotheby's, Art Blocks, Bright Moments, and Verse. The interview is wide ranging, covering life philosophies, what about art stands the test of time, and creating art in a collaborative Web3 environment. The conversation takes place just prior to his chatFUKR release, a collection at the intersection of generative art,...

Cath Simard is a composite landscape photographer and digital artist. She creates at the intersection of reality and imagination and is quoted as saying, "I don't capture what my eyes see, I capture what my mind imagines." She is patient with her art releases, yet prolific in impact, with accomplishments across Christie's, Sotheby's, AOTM, SuperRare and ExchangeArt, with maybe her most notable work being a one-of-one Creative Commons exploration entitled 'Free Hawaii'. In this interview, we...

Niceaunties is an artist inspired by the absurd and endearing behavior of Auntie culture, by Singapore, by food, and much, much more. She's telling a story, one about the growing Auntieverse, and one that is unfolding in chapters. Alejandro Cartagena is an artist and co-founder of Fellowship Trust, Fellowship AI, and Obscura. Via Fellowship, he's collaborating with niceaunties to bring the next chapter of Auntieverse, a milestone release, to life. This interview is packed with gems about...

Hafftka is an artist with five decades of experience and works represented in a host of museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, and Carnegie Museum of Art. It’s rare to find someone who matches such life experience with boundless energy and clear thought. Yet, that’s Hafftka. I left this conversation inspired. The deep-rooted desire to create, the obstinance needed to navigate art, and the conviction in digital medium, in crypto art, in crypto...

Today, we welcome Artie Handz and Frank Manzano. Artie is a longtime collector in the digital art space. He is the founder of Artie Galerie and he's a strong artist advocate. Frank brings a film and photography background into his career as an artist emphasizing AI-assisted video. Artie describes Frank's work as a funhouse mirror merger of a viewer's own memories and the unfamiliar. This interview takes place as the pair are preparing for Artie Galerie's inaugural verse exhibition. We delve...

Roope Rainisto is a designer, a creator, a photographer, a screenwriter, and an endless learner, bringing his diversity of life experience to the frontier of artificial intelligence. He is challenging the way we see the world and the way we feel it, through collections like Life In West America with BrainDrops and REWORLD with Fellowship.

Batz is an artist inspired by modern meme-ism with his finger firmly on the pulse of crypto art. In this interview, we go down the rabbit hole of creation, from Pepe inspiration, to Fidenza crossover, to a generative project of his own, to far more.

Today, we welcome David Ariew. David is a digital fine artist and educator fondly referred to as Octane Jesus. He has a background across music and film, has created with people like Madonna, has released at Sotheby's, and he has just returned from Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong. He joins us to recap Quantum Transcendence, discuss 3D tools, immersive portals, and boundary-pushing experiences.

Welcome to episode 3 of In Conversation. Join Ayla El-Moussa for a fascinating chat with two brilliant artists, Ben Strauss and Michael Sidofsky. Explore their passion for photography, their use of light painting, and their idea for the future of web3. Dive into what keeps their wonder and creativity alive.  

Pablo Fraile is a mathematician, an investor, and a digital art patron. He, along with partner Desiree, curates the RFC Collection, an interdisciplinary art collection that champions contemporary digital mediums. The contents of this collection are swiftly becoming historic in nature. Want two examples? One, the co-donation of Unsupervised by Refik Anadol to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Two, alongside one of one art, seeing Human One by Beeple in the Crystal Bridges...

Batsoupyum is a legendary art collector, specializing in tokenized digital art, and he has one of the most recognizable brands in that space. He is a lover of memes. He is part of team 6529. In this interview, we take stock of art, NFTs, how they’re defined, and opportunities for future growth. We deep dive his own collecting origin story, a hash mask, his approach to collecting, and highlights of that journey, including a fortuitous Skull of Luci, first works from Claire Silver, Grant Yun,...

Today we welcome Slimesunday. Slime is a provocative and unconventional collage artist who has released artworks through auction houses and platforms via Slimesunday and, alter ego, Grimemonday, and across collaborations including 3lau and Playboy. November 6th, 2020 was a special date in the history books as Slimesunday released The Last Stand of the Nation State. In this interview, we are going back in time. We are reliving the moment and walking it forward to present day. If you are an...

Welcome to a conversation with artists Grant Yun and Die With The Most Likes, aka Mark. The two contrasting and intriguing minds of both Grant and Mark take us on an amusing and rather hilarious journey of their artworks, their thoughts on current culture, and of course the most important question, what is your go-to dipping sauce? Please enjoy another discussion with two minds that will have you questioning the nature of your reality.

Ana María Caballero is an award-winning poet writing the Web3 Poetry Revolution. She has been internationally exhibited, widely published, and she was a recipient of the International Beverly Prize for Literature. Among her prolific works are Artifacts, a recent collaboration with Alex Esterich using coin and story to challenge tired history, as well as her incoming collection, Becoming Borges, a collaboration with London-based Verseworks and Berlin Gallery: Office Impart. Ana Maria is a...

From intricate details of atoms to the vast expanses of digital landscapes, one artist brings the world of nature and technology together in a mesmerizing dance: Jesse Woolston, a pioneer in crafting large-scale installations that span the globe. He captures the delicate equilibrium between the enchanting allure and the underlying terror of our planet. Today, we are privileged to embark on a journey through art, nature, ego, and the world. Welcome to a conversation with the visionary, Jesse...

Shavonne Wong is an artist, 3D virtual model creator, and co-founder of NFT Asia. She was Vogue’s first NFT cover; she’s sold on Sotheby’s; she’s been collected by Idris Elba, and she’s exhibited in Singapore, Paris, and beyond. Try listening to this interview and not coming away inspired - not, in Shavonne’s words, a fantastical sense, but in a pragmatic sense. She talks empathy, realism, a willingness to be “cringe”, and she provides a very real path to going out there and getting it as an...

Connor Grasso is a psycho-conceptualist artist. He explores the inner-workings of the mind, conscious and human experience and he leverages a variety of inspirations including his artistic lineage, his Alaskan origins, and psychedelics. In this interview, we catch Connor fresh off of his first solo exhibition. We dig into that, his process stories from Alaska, and his wide range of work in the web3 space with his own art as well as with the Shiller team.

Joey L. is a Canadian-born, New York-based photographer and director. His work spans prominent brands, including National Geographic and History Channel, and celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. In this interview, Joey discusses the dance and the balance between commercial opportunity and personal fine art, and the pursuit of things he finds interesting and fulfilling. The conversation ranges from antique origins to his eight pound physical book, Ethiopia, to entering...

Ryan Koopmans is an artist exploring the relationship between nature and architecture - how societies have been shaped by built environments. He has sold work at Sotheby’s and SuperRare. He’s been collected by Jim Carey, yes, that Jim Carey. Ryan is thoughtful about his art, his minting, his use of mechanics and his collectors. He has a strong long-term vantage point and that really shines through in this interview.

Mariana Makwaia is an artist blending photos, videos, analog, and digital music to create an alternative fusion world of her own. She is someone who values individual sovereignty, optionality, and the fundamental value propositions of the blockchain. In this wide ranging conversation, we'll explore anything from her recent audio visual series to her Sister Act sibling, from her vision to her memorable voice. Mari is exploring the gray areas and she's opening doors for herself and others.  

NorCal Guy is a considerate art collector who values original thought. He is the host of NorCal and Shill podcast. He is the founder of ClickCreate, premium curated digital art collection. He's the founder of One Exposure, a collective art piece based around one single camera. And he is a biscuit, yes, biscuit, king and connoisseur. We get into his backstory, art collecting, brand formation and the future of digital art.

This is a special episode shining the spotlight on two people shaping the future of what art is and what dimensionality means, or as Artifex likes to call it, Web3D. Durk van der Meer - aka Durk at Work - is the Art Director of Artifex. He is the Art Director of Aku. He is a virtual world builder and 3D model creator.  Justin Wetch is the Art Interaction Director of Artifex, creator of immersive art experiences, and he is an Alaskan artist with a wide ranging skillset.