Here I talk with one of my good friends from the internet, ALEQTH. He is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring web3 and beyond. He paints, draws, makes music and trains his own AI models. He is one of my biggest artistic inspirations and most ahead of his time creators online.
Check out ALEQTH on his website below:
https://aleqth.com
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:39 Who is ALEQTH?
2:46 Lower East Side Paintings Solo Show
7:50 Older vs Younger audiences
10:47 Instagram Art + origin story
15:41 Finding freedom in sadness
16:50 Fighting self censorship
20:27 Dealing with becoming a business as an artist
25:00 Sam Hyde introducing Alex to NFTs
29:19 Everything wrong with NFTs in 2024
32:50 Finding new ways to meet everyones needs in web3
34:05 Internet Friends
37:43 How ALEQTH met TEJI
38:18 Generative art, symbols and Andy Warhol
49:00 Digital objects in augmented reality
1:00:00 Finding new ways to exhibit digital collectables
1:04:00 AI turning dreams into a reality
1:13:00 Open sourcing art
1:18:13 Outro
