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Verse Talks

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In this episode of Verse Talks, Leyla and Jamie speak with digital art historian and researcher Noah Bolanowski about the overlooked history of digital art. From street art and the early days of Nifty Gateway to the NFT boom, blockchain, and the pioneers of computer art, Noah takes us through his journey into uncovering the people, works and stories that helped shape the medium. 00:00 — Introduction: Noah Bolanowski 01:43 — Becoming a digital art historian 03:16 — Street art, collecting & the origins of Nifty Gateway 07:22 — Keith Haring, Timothy Leary & early digital art 11:59 — Becoming a “digital Indiana Jones” 15:15 — Discovering NFTs & collecting on Nifty Gateway 18:37 — The NFT boom and sudden six-figure valuations 23:27 — Speculation, collectors & the pandemic NFT market 30:48 — The 14-year-old CryptoPunks millionaire 33:03 — What happened to the NFT market?

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  1. Oscar Murillo: Frequencies 2:22:15
  2. Caroline Csuri: her father’s life, art & legacy 53:37
  3. Kika Nicolela: from digital art to collectible cards 58:40
  4. Michael Spalter: four decades of collecting digital art 1:00:25
  5. From Street Art to the History of Digital Art: Noah Bolanowski 1:28:33
  6. Jon Washburn: AI, Consciousness & the Theory of Reality 1:31:00
  7. Mat Dryhurst: The Future of Digital Creativity 1:30:37
  8. Evil Biscuit on Drifella, Trading Cards & Digital Art 57:57
  9. Ed Fornieles on Identity in the Internet Age 49:56
  10. Trevor Paglen: curating Basel Switzerland’s first Zero 10 42:55
  11. Jalil: Visualise Value, Checks and a new auction house for Cryptopunks 1:25:39
  12. Nuclear Samurai: BRAINROT 56:45
  13. Sssluke and Brian Droitcour: New Bad Image 1:11:12
  14. Simon Hudson and Justin Gilanyi: cultural architecture, patronage and Art Basel Hong Kong 1:01:16
  15. Tabor Robak and Harvey Rayner: from Human Resources to Art Basel Hong Kong 1:28:29
  16. Abigail Miller and Micol Ap: sustainability, growth and long-term thinking 1:25:26
  17. Jack Butcher, Adrian Pocobelli and Emir Dino: The shifting state of the digital art market 1:26:12
  18. Tabor Robak: Human Resources and the Tabcorp shared universe 1:19:36
  19. Rhea Myers: making art to understand the world 1:55:01
  20. Phil Mohun: building Node Foundation and the future of digital art 47:59
  21. Terence Broad: from Blade Runner to (un)stable equilibrium 1:12:28
  22. On the ground inside Zero 10 with Matt Medved 1:39:32
  23. Laurie Simmons: art, identity & experimentation in the age of AI 59:54
  24. Refik Anadol: building the world's first museum for AI art and celebrating humanity through machine collaboration 1:23:53
  25. Tyler Hobbs: From Noise 48:29
  26. Eli Scheinman: digital art coming to Art Basel Miami 1:23:23
  27. OSF: from a doodle to a $100 million token 50:50
  28. David Shrigley: finding humour in art 45:50
  29. Roundtable with Motzko & Lonliboy: the aesthetic experience of scrolling 1:38:13
  30. Hilde Lynn Helphenstein: the real Jerry Gogosian 1:57:55
  31. Sasha Stiles: poetry in the age of AI 1:18:35
  32. Raoul Pal: from Real Vision to the new art world 56:41
  33. Adrian Pocobelli: from Ballard to digital art 1:40:32
  34. Sebastian Sanchez: digital art at Christie's, auction models, and the power of relational dynamics 1:53:34
  35. Verse round table: Verse secondary auctions, cultural stickiness and trusting the artist 1:40:56
  36. Eric De Giuli: breaking symmetry 1:02:03
  37. Rafaël Rozendaal: opening the door to Rooms 1:17:37
  38. Jared Madere: Galerie Yeche Lange, VVV and the Avant Gay scene 1:35:46
  39. Paul Pfeiffer: the art of the spectacle 42:49
  40. Verse roundtable: diving into the Solana art trenches, consensus vs. non-consensus, bullposting and long-term value accrual 51:05
  41. Parker Ito: exploring The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble 1:24:42
  42. Adam Levine: exploring the Toledo Museum of Art, cultural accessibility, platform sustainability, and why Artie is leaving the space 1:55:22
  43. Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation 1:22:03
  44. Harm van den Dorpel and Regina Harsanyi (Twitter Spaces): the early days of Club Internet, the ephemerality of time based media and the birth of Quantizer 46:27
  45. Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture 2:00:47
  46. Terence Broad and Luba Elliott: unpacking (un)stable equilibrium 46:50
  47. Roger Dickerman: the origin of 24 Hours of Art, finding a deliberate imbalance and the objectivity of price action 2:52:40
  48. Eli Scheinman: building context, courting the traditional collector and working with Art Basel 1:05:07
  49. Nikita Diakur: The strangely beautiful world of Ugly, balancing parallel creative paths and his upcoming SOLOS exhibition 40:08
  50. Natalie Stone and Shane Lavalette: The next chapter of CryptoPunks, collecting against the trend and curation as the new PFP 1:10:19