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Verse Talks — 84 episodes

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sssluke and Brian Droitcour: New Bad Image

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Simon Hudson and Justin Gilanyi: cultural architecture, patronage and Art Basel Hong Kong

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Tabor Robak and Harvey Rayner: from Human Resources to Art Basel Hong Kong

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Abigail Miller and Micol Ap: sustainability, growth and long-term thinking

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Jack Butcher, Adrian Pocobelli and Emir Dino: The shifting state of the digital art market

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Tabor Robak: Human Resources and the Tabcorp shared universe

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Rhea Myers: making art to understand the world

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Phil Mohun: building Node Foundation and the future of digital art

9

Terence Broad: from Blade Runner to (un)stable equilibrium

10

On the ground inside Zero 10 with Matt Medved

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Laurie Simmons: art, identity & experimentation in the age of AI

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Refik Anadol: building the world's first museum for AI art and celebrating humanity through machine collaboration

13

Tyler Hobbs: From Noise

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Eli Scheinman: digital art coming to Art Basel Miami

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OSF: from a doodle to a $100 million token

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David Shrigley: finding humour in art

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Roundtable with Motzko & Lonliboy: the aesthetic experience of scrolling

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Redbeard: conviction, community and refining your focus

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Hilde Lynn Helphenstein: the real Jerry Gogosian

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Sasha Stiles: poetry in the age of AI

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Raoul Pal: from Real Vision to the new art world

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Adrian Pocobelli: from Ballard to digital art

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Sebastian Sanchez: digital art at Christie's, auction models, and the power of relational dynamics

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Verse round table: Verse secondary auctions, cultural stickiness and trusting the artist

25

Eric De Giuli: breaking symmetry

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Rafaël Rozendaal: opening the door to Rooms

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Jared Madere: Galerie Yeche Lange, VVV and the Avant Gay scene

28

Paul Pfeiffer: the art of the spectacle

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Verse roundtable: diving into the Solana art trenches, consensus vs. non-consensus, bullposting and long-term value accrual

30

Parker Ito: exploring The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble

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Adam Levine: exploring the Toledo Museum of Art, cultural accessibility, platform sustainability, and why Artie is leaving the space

32

Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation

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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

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Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture

35

Terence Broad and Luba Elliott: unpacking (un)stable equilibrium

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Roger Dickerman: the origin of 24 Hours of Art, finding a deliberate imbalance and the objectivity of price action

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Eli Scheinman: building context, courting the traditional collector and working with Art Basel

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Nikita Diakur: The strangely beautiful world of Ugly, balancing parallel creative paths and his upcoming SOLOS exhibition

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Natalie Stone and Shane Lavalette: The next chapter of CryptoPunks, collecting against the trend and curation as the new PFP

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Tyler Hobbs: navigating the traditional and digital worlds, prioritising the art, and dealing with the effect of a legacy

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Erik Swahn: inside Soma

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Sofia Garcia: the birth of ARTXCODE, building relationships and the future of art

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Making markets, creating value and building for the long-term

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Ciphrd & Cosimo from fx(hash): open-form, $FXH, art coins and the importance of an open platform

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Snowfro: democratising art, navigating success and the realities of gatekeeping

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Beeple: 69 problems but p*nises ain't one

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Phantom Scribbler: are aesthetics dead, the social stickiness of NFTs, memetic value and an impulsive approach to art

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Adam Berninger: Heft, physical spaces for the digital community, institutional vs influencer gatekeeping and the culture casino

49

A conversation with Kenny Schachter, plus Sketchbook B, Zora's content coins and Rodeo's USD pivot

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Jack Butcher: this episode may or may not be notable

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Toxic positivity within the space, are panel discussions boring? Leyla's wallet boycott, Jack Kaido and SuperRare

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The Deviates secret revealed (SPOILERS), Chat GPT's Ghibli moment and life with personalised slop machines

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Opening the sketchbook: A conversation with William Mapan

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Blue chip art in a red chip world, Jeff Magid and traditional perspectives, converging towards consensus

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Hot deals or falling knives, the pullback and its cultural impact, thinking about historical context

56

The Giraffe, pretension vs fun, building in the space and the team's 2 ETH picks

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A conversation with Alejandro Cartagena, competition and collaboration, curating AI Agents and the power of machine artists

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Unpacking Geometric Fluidity, concept vs aesthetics, SuperRare's Discord closure

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Botto post-performance, the Christie's letter, art vs slop

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Is marketing the new curating, navigating the algorithm, chain dynamics

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Simon Hudson on the future of Botto and the power of the DAO

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Mario Klingemann on the evolution of Botto

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AI and the art market, emerging artists, Kim Asendorf's PXL DEX

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Breaking new ground with Botto, Ivan heads up Artist Rooms, the Rodeo continues

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Rodeo takes off, defining importance and "the" list

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Predictions, collecting and curating in 2025

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Team picks and highlights of 2024

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Looking back on 2024, systems art vs object fetishism, platform tokens

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Inside TABCORP LABS: a conversation with Tabor Robak

70

Art Basel & shl0ms recap, 'drops' vs ongoing releases, do curators need to be collectors

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Release Dynamics, PFPs and community, discipline to collecting, Shl0ms is God

72

Reflecting on the Banana, memes and virality, gearing up for Miami, the final act of Shl0ms' Security

73

AI agents, meme coins, Marfa recap

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Virality in art, shared cultural realities, navigating the market

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Investment funds involvement with institutions, ethics in the space, $BAN fall out and Paris Photo

76

AI season, Botto's evolution, artist meme coins, ArtBlocks partners with OpenSea

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Artie Handz news, ArtBlocks Curated returns, Foundation's Pivot

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Frieze rundown, are fairs still relevant, the bleeding edge, emotion versus technicality in art

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Artist sustainability, posturing and authenticity, collector mentality, Shl0ms' Security

80

BURNT UMBER BROKEN SILVER AMERICAN SPIRIT, a conversation with Petra Cortright

81

Shape goes live, private sales vs the ethos of the space, is crypto hurting us, Verse's new secondary market and SOLOS fall programme

82

Silk Road run down, competition in the space, Mat Dryhurst's post, is conceptual art a scam?

83

Bad taste in the space? What is good art? Verse product updates

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Supply dynamics, platforms bidding at auction, gallery representation, the Verse curation board