Verse Talks
Discussing the latest news in digital art with Leyla Fakhr and Jamie Gourlay.
Episodes
70 episodes
OSF: from a doodle to a $100 million token
00:30 - Welcome OSF 01:40 - Coping with volatility and market panic 03:16 - The origins of RektGuy 06:15 - Managing impostor syndrome 09:15 - A community born in the bear market 10:55 ...
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50:50
David Shrigley: finding humour in art
01:08 - Leaving art school and early success 03:15 - Staying true to your artistic voice 06:00 - Whitehawk and Nottingham Forest 07:13 - Frieze Magazine, Transmission Gallery and Err 10:46 - Tapp...
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45:50
Roundtable with Motzko & Lonliboy: the aesthetic experience of scrolling
00:25 - Welcome Motzko 03:22 - Marfa recap 07:50 - Connecting and consolidating relationships 11:28 - Marfa highlights 13:50 - Fallout from the Raoul clip 19:16 - Navigating the socia...
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1:38:13
Redbeard: conviction, community and refining your focus
00:35 - Welcome Redbeard 02:58 - Discovering digital art 05:03 - Too many sellers, not enough buyers 09:13 - Debunking the cabal 15:13 - Power laws, high prices and rising tides 18:42 ...
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52:10
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein: the real Jerry Gogosian
00:40 - Welcome Hilde Lynn Helphenstein07:20 - Conservatism in the art world 10:02 - Early exposure to different cultures 11:54 - Conceptual Art, new genres and developing a practice 14:01 - The art wo...
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1:57:55
Sasha Stiles: poetry in the age of AI
00:42 - Welcome Sasha Stiles 04:55 - The foundations for an endless curiosity 09:50 - Connecting with Kalmyk art forms 13:40 - From academia to the arts 16:20 - New York, cultural absorption and p...
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1:18:35
Raoul Pal: from Real Vision to the new art world
00:25 – Intro: Raoul Pal01:05 – Real Vision: why it started after the GFC/Euro crisis02:06 – Democratising finance content; early crypto coverage03:41 – Bootstrapping video: “we knew f*** all” era (2013–14)04:45 – Wo...
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Adrian Pocobelli: from Ballard to digital art
00:33 - Welcome Adrian Pocobelli 01:39 - Discovering the counterculture 07:10 - The desire to collect 13:05 - The Stone Roses, The Smiths, and J. G. Ballard 19:00 - Neoplatonism and psychedelics&n...
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1:40:32
Sebastian Sanchez: digital art at Christie's, auction models, and the power of relational dynamics
00:45 - Welcome Sebastian Sanchez 08:55 - A journey into digital art 11:05 - Christie's 3.0 and joining the team 17:44 - Developing a commercial mindset 20:40 - Finding the right market fit <...
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1:53:34
Verse round table: Verse secondary auctions, cultural stickiness and trusting the artist
00:45 - Yeche Lange and Avant Gay recap 05:40 - Series size and collector focus 10:00 - Artist trajectories and release mechanics 13:10 - Art and the Diderot effect 20:10 - Collecting strategies a...
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1:40:56
Eric De Giuli: breaking symmetry
00:45 - Welcome Eric De Giuli 02:18 - Connecting art and theoretical physics 05:35 - Early explorations into generative art 08:29 - Balancing artistic and academic practices 10:35 - Discovering NF...
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1:02:03
Rafaël Rozendaal: opening the door to Rooms
00:35 - Welcome Rafaël Rozendaal 02:55 - The advantage of a conversational archive 06:21 - The influence of travel and cultural heritage 08:25 - Neen, LA and digital art in the late '90s 12:06 - G...
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1:17:37
Jared Madere: Galerie Yeche Lange, VVV and the Avant Gay scene
00:46 - Welcome Jared Madere 03:19 - The genesis of Yeche Lange 09:20 - Market consolidation and post-2021 11:00 - Exploring the role of the gallery in the Web3 space 16:18 - What caused the scene...
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1:35:46
Paul Pfeiffer: the art of the spectacle
00:47 - Welcome Paul Pfeiffer 03:07 - The spectacle of sport 07:06 - Exploring the implications of new technology 10:05 - Working with digital media in the early 1990s 14:50 - The blurring of the ...
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Verse roundtable: diving into the Solana art trenches, consensus vs. non-consensus, bullposting and long-term value accrual
00:48 - Diving into the Solana trenches 07:40 - PFP culture and Drilady 08:50 - Chain-specific culture and why Solana makes sense 14:26 - Parker Ito and the impact of Horses?2 17:00 - A different ...
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51:05
Parker Ito: exploring The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble
00:38 - Welcome Parker Ito 05:25 - Tumblr, Post-Internet scene and finding community 12:20 - The effect of early success 20:30 - Disillusionment with the art world 24:25 - What caused the market t...
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1:24:42
Adam Levine: exploring the Toledo Museum of Art, cultural accessibility, platform sustainability, and why Artie is leaving the space
00:48 - Welcome Adam Levine 01:15 - What sets the Toledo Museum of Art apart 05:22 - Ensuring the community has access to culture 07:20 - The benefit of private funding 10:10 - TMA's digital progr...
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1:55:22
Harm van den Dorpel: Quantizer, algorithmic archeology, and digital preservation
00:40 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel 01:35 - Working with plotters 05:06 - Creative beginnings 08:45 - A grounding in early AI 11:20 - From tech to art school 13:50 - The shifting conte...
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1:22:03
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
00:44 - Welcome Harm van den Dorpel and Regina Harsanyi 03:05 - Nasty Nets, Club Internet and the early surf clubs 09:05 - Creating context and community through curation 12:40 - Ongoing scepticism around blo...
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46:27
Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture
00:35 - Welcome Steve McKeon 02:25 - Navigating the dot-com boom and bust 08:19 - A winding path to tenure 13:20 - Discovering crypto 15:50 - Writing Traditional Asset Tokenisation 19:...
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Episode 51
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2:00:47
Terence Broad and Luba Elliott: unpacking (un)stable equilibrium
03:00 - Luba Elliott on Terence Broad 04:15 - Autoencoding Blade Runner 09:25 - Machine learning in 2016 12:31 - Arriving at the crossroads of technology and art 15:35 - Why Blade Runner?
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Episode 50
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46:50
Roger Dickerman: the origin of 24 Hours of Art, finding a deliberate imbalance and the objectivity of price action
00:50 - Welcome Roger Dickerman 02:48 - The importance of a physical space 06:02 - Roger's journey into digital art 07:45 - A deliberate imbalance 11:02 - Controlling the bookends 14:1...
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Episode 49
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2:52:40
Eli Scheinman: building context, courting the traditional collector and working with Art Basel
This week we sat down with seasoned advisor Eli Scheinman to discuss his new role at Art Basel, what’s driving the market’s fresh momentum, how today’s collectors are maturing and how to frame emerging work for a more traditional crowd.0...
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Episode 48
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1:05:07
Nikita Diakur: The strangely beautiful world of Ugly, balancing parallel creative paths and his upcoming SOLOS exhibition
This week Leyla sits down with artist and filmmaker Nikita Diakur to explore his journey in the art and film worlds, spotlighting his acclaimed short film 'Ugly'. They dive into the film's themes and the creative process behind it, as well as h...
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Episode 47
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40:08
Natalie Stone and Shane Lavalette: The next chapter of CryptoPunks, collecting against the trend and curation as the new PFP
This week we sat down with former General Manager of CryptoPunks and founder of StoneWork Natalie Stone, and artist, gallerist and broker Shane Lavalette. We unpack Stone's journey into NFTs, Node’s Punks acquisition, and the enduring passion o...
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Episode 46
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