All Episodes
Verse Talks — 91 episodes
Jon Washburn: AI, Consciousness & the Theory of Reality
Mat Dryhurst: The Future of Digital Creativity
Evil Biscuit on Drifella, Trading Cards & Digital Art
Ed Fornieles on Identity in the Internet Age
Trevor Paglen: curating Basel Switzerland’s first Zero 10
Jalil: Visualise Value, Checks and a new auction house for Cryptopunks
Nuclear Samurai: BRAINROT
sssluke and Brian Droitcour: New Bad Image
Simon Hudson and Justin Gilanyi: cultural architecture, patronage and Art Basel Hong Kong
Tabor Robak and Harvey Rayner: from Human Resources to Art Basel Hong Kong
Abigail Miller and Micol Ap: sustainability, growth and long-term thinking
Jack Butcher, Adrian Pocobelli and Emir Dino: The shifting state of the digital art market
Tabor Robak: Human Resources and the Tabcorp shared universe
Rhea Myers: making art to understand the world
Phil Mohun: building Node Foundation and the future of digital art
Terence Broad: from Blade Runner to (un)stable equilibrium
On the ground inside Zero 10 with Matt Medved
Laurie Simmons: art, identity & experimentation in the age of AI
Refik Anadol: building the world's first museum for AI art and celebrating humanity through machine collaboration
Tyler Hobbs: From Noise
Eli Scheinman: digital art coming to Art Basel Miami
OSF: from a doodle to a $100 million token
David Shrigley: finding humour in art
Roundtable with Motzko & Lonliboy: the aesthetic experience of scrolling
Redbeard: conviction, community and refining your focus
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein: the real Jerry Gogosian
Sasha Stiles: poetry in the age of AI
Raoul Pal: from Real Vision to the new art world
Adrian Pocobelli: from Ballard to digital art
Sebastian Sanchez: digital art at Christie's, auction models, and the power of relational dynamics
Verse round table: Verse secondary auctions, cultural stickiness and trusting the artist
Eric De Giuli: breaking symmetry
Rafaël Rozendaal: opening the door to Rooms
Jared Madere: Galerie Yeche Lange, VVV and the Avant Gay scene
Paul Pfeiffer: the art of the spectacle
Verse roundtable: diving into the Solana art trenches, consensus vs. non-consensus, bullposting and long-term value accrual
Parker Ito: exploring The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble
Adam Levine: exploring the Toledo Museum of Art, cultural accessibility, platform sustainability, and why Artie is leaving the space
Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation
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
Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture
Terence Broad and Luba Elliott: unpacking (un)stable equilibrium
Roger Dickerman: the origin of 24 Hours of Art, finding a deliberate imbalance and the objectivity of price action
Eli Scheinman: building context, courting the traditional collector and working with Art Basel
Nikita Diakur: The strangely beautiful world of Ugly, balancing parallel creative paths and his upcoming SOLOS exhibition
Natalie Stone and Shane Lavalette: The next chapter of CryptoPunks, collecting against the trend and curation as the new PFP
Tyler Hobbs: navigating the traditional and digital worlds, prioritising the art, and dealing with the effect of a legacy
Erik Swahn: inside Soma
Sofia Garcia: the birth of ARTXCODE, building relationships and the future of art
Making markets, creating value and building for the long-term
Ciphrd & Cosimo from fx(hash): open-form, $FXH, art coins and the importance of an open platform
Snowfro: democratising art, navigating success and the realities of gatekeeping
Beeple: 69 problems but p*nises ain't one
Phantom Scribbler: are aesthetics dead, the social stickiness of NFTs, memetic value and an impulsive approach to art
Adam Berninger: Heft, physical spaces for the digital community, institutional vs influencer gatekeeping and the culture casino
A conversation with Kenny Schachter, plus Sketchbook B, Zora's content coins and Rodeo's USD pivot
Jack Butcher: this episode may or may not be notable
Toxic positivity within the space, are panel discussions boring? Leyla's wallet boycott, Jack Kaido and SuperRare
The Deviates secret revealed (SPOILERS), Chat GPT's Ghibli moment and life with personalised slop machines
Opening the sketchbook: A conversation with William Mapan
Blue chip art in a red chip world, Jeff Magid and traditional perspectives, converging towards consensus
Hot deals or falling knives, the pullback and its cultural impact, thinking about historical context
The Giraffe, pretension vs fun, building in the space and the team's 2 ETH picks
A conversation with Alejandro Cartagena, competition and collaboration, curating AI Agents and the power of machine artists
Unpacking Geometric Fluidity, concept vs aesthetics, SuperRare's Discord closure
Botto post-performance, the Christie's letter, art vs slop
Is marketing the new curating, navigating the algorithm, chain dynamics
Simon Hudson on the future of Botto and the power of the DAO
Mario Klingemann on the evolution of Botto
AI and the art market, emerging artists, Kim Asendorf's PXL DEX
Breaking new ground with Botto, Ivan heads up Artist Rooms, the Rodeo continues
Rodeo takes off, defining importance and "the" list
Predictions, collecting and curating in 2025
Team picks and highlights of 2024
Looking back on 2024, systems art vs object fetishism, platform tokens
Inside TABCORP LABS: a conversation with Tabor Robak
Art Basel & shl0ms recap, 'drops' vs ongoing releases, do curators need to be collectors
Release Dynamics, PFPs and community, discipline to collecting, Shl0ms is God
Reflecting on the Banana, memes and virality, gearing up for Miami, the final act of Shl0ms' Security
AI agents, meme coins, Marfa recap
Virality in art, shared cultural realities, navigating the market
Investment funds involvement with institutions, ethics in the space, $BAN fall out and Paris Photo
AI season, Botto's evolution, artist meme coins, ArtBlocks partners with OpenSea
Artie Handz news, ArtBlocks Curated returns, Foundation's Pivot
Frieze rundown, are fairs still relevant, the bleeding edge, emotion versus technicality in art
Artist sustainability, posturing and authenticity, collector mentality, Shl0ms' Security
BURNT UMBER BROKEN SILVER AMERICAN SPIRIT, a conversation with Petra Cortright
Shape goes live, private sales vs the ethos of the space, is crypto hurting us, Verse's new secondary market and SOLOS fall programme
Silk Road run down, competition in the space, Mat Dryhurst's post, is conceptual art a scam?
Bad taste in the space? What is good art? Verse product updates
Supply dynamics, platforms bidding at auction, gallery representation, the Verse curation board