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Public Art & The Dance Between The Virtual and the Real: Interview with artist John Gerrard & Whitney Hart of Feral File

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In this episode we discuss:

  • John's history in art and simulation
  • Whitney's career in art and how she came to Feral File
  • The story of Western Flag becoming tokenized & John's decision to make NFTs
  • Reconciling the ecological cost of NFTs by supporting environmental initiatives & relationships with power
  • John's first tokenized work on the Bitmark chain
  • The two main issues that Whitney encounters when talking about NFTs to artists and collectors from the traditional world
  • The need for galleries and art fairs to catch up with the contemporary scene as it becomes increasingly digital
  • An overview of crystalline work (arctic) and the generative aspects of the performance
  • How Feral File worked with John to bring this experiment to life
  • Reconciling works that require patience against a population with a diminishing attention span
  • Time, data, the dating system for crystalline work and billionaires turning our consciousness into light
  • Newgrange
  • Blockchain as an alternative to oil-backed currencies with the potential to be a globally uniting force (...and pirates!)
  • The complicated dance between the unreal and the real

Follow John Gerrard on Twitter @john__gerrard and learn more about him at johngerrard.net

Follow Whitney Hart @h_artchronicles and follow Feral File @feralfile to keep up with their releases

Follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign, on Farcaster @wtbs and on Instagram @waitingtobesigned

If you like the show and want to support us you can subscribe to our Patreon or donate directly to wtbs.tez & wtbs.eth

Episode Art: crystalline work (arctic) 24.2.1.0 by John Gerrard

Intro & Outro tracks by PixelWank

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In this episode we discuss:

  • John's history in art and simulation
  • Whitney's career in art and how she came to Feral File
  • The story of Western Flag becoming tokenized & John's decision to make NFTs
  • Reconciling the ecological cost of NFTs by supporting environmental initiatives & relationships with power
  • John's first tokenized work on the Bitmark chain
  • The two main issues that Whitney encounters when talking about NFTs to artists and collectors from the traditional world
  • The need for galleries and art fairs to catch up with the contemporary scene as it becomes increasingly digital
  • An overview of crystalline work (arctic) and the generative aspects of the performance
  • How Feral File worked with John to bring this experiment to life
  • Reconciling works that require patience against a population with a diminishing attention span
  • Time, data, the dating system for crystalline work and billionaires turning our consciousness into light
  • Newgrange
  • Blockchain as an alternative to oil-backed currencies with the potential to be a globally uniting force (...and pirates!)
  • The complicated dance between the unreal and the real

Follow John Gerrard on Twitter @john__gerrard and learn more about him at johngerrard.net

Follow Whitney Hart @h_artchronicles and follow Feral File @feralfile to keep up with their releases

Follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign, on Farcaster @wtbs and on Instagram @waitingtobesigned

If you like the show and want to support us you can subscribe to our Patreon or donate directly to wtbs.tez & wtbs.eth

Episode Art: crystalline work (arctic) 24.2.1.0 by John Gerrard

Intro & Outro tracks by PixelWank

  continue reading

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