Collectors Call
Explore the world of art, collecting, and community building in web3! Join Scooter for candid one-on-one conversations with leading artists and collectors from a wide range of disciplines.
Collectors Call
Anne Spalter: Uniting the Past & Future of Computer Art
Anne Spalter is an artist and educator who stands at the forefront of digital art. She was featured in the Taschen book On NFTs, named to the Lumen Prize Longlist, and included in the top 50 influential crypto artists by Rizzoli. Anne’s work has been exhibited widely and can be found in private collections and institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Museum of CryptoArt, amonst many others. Anne and her husband Michael also steward Spalter Digital, one of the world’s largest collections of early computer art.
Recorded on April 19, 2024 as a Space on X.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:48) First Experience Making Computer Art
(03:44) Appeal of Experimentation in Art
(04:53) Painting AI Compositions
(05:44) Educating Others on Computers and Visual Art
(07:28) Disrupting Traditional Art Hierarchy with Digital Art
(08:50) Bridging Historic Digital Art & NFTs through Curation
(10:00) Hostility towards Early Generative Artists
(11:15) Acquisitiion of the Wonder of it All by Centre Pompidou
(13:05) The Bell Machine, Acquired by Buffalo AKG Museum
(15:08) Pop-up Exhibition of Future Landscapes
(16:26) Energy Kaleidoscopes: Video Loops with Infinite Objects
(18:30) Imagining a Happy Apocalypse
(19:45) Why Does Computer Art Provoke Such Strong Reactions?
(21:31) Making Art out of Archetypal Imagery
(22:44) Exploring Conspiracy Theories with AI
(24:25) Using AI to Imagine Future Mythologies
(26:05) Stewarding Early Computer Art with Spalter Digital
(27:35) Witnessing the Evolution of On-Chain Generative Art
(28:44) Collecting Early Computer Art before NFTs
(30:21) Merging the Traditional Art World with NFTs
(32:08) Anyone can Become an Art Collector
(33:37) Favorite Works from Anne's Collection
(34:43) What the Traditional Art World can Learn from Web3
(36:57) Gathering Artwork in a Common Marketplace with FirstMate
(38:14) Future Opportunities for Digital Art Creators
(39:55) Outro