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

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Waiting To Be Signed

Willpop + Trinity

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Waiting To Be Signed is a weekly podcast about generative art on the blockchain. Every week we release an episode covering new releases we love, the news & happenings of the space, hot topics & more. We also release bi-weekly interview episodes with artists, collectors and builders in the space. If you want to support the show please check out our Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/WaitingToBeSigned or you can donate directly to wtbs.tez & wtbs.eth

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

Waiting To Be Signed

1 hour 5 minutes 49 seconds

1 year ago

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

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

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

Intro & Outro tracks by PixelWank