SuperRare Sessions

🎙️  New Episode: Anna Condo — Cinematic Color and the Language of AI In conversation with  Joshua Long  of SuperRare, artist and filmmaker  Anna Condo  reflects on the evolution of her  Color Code  series and her upcoming show at  Offline Gallery  in New York. Together, they explore: How  Color Code  grew from early DALL·E outputs into a cinem...

We have officially entered the longest bear market that crypto has ever experienced. (the bear market between 2015 and 2016 lasted 386 days, the bear market between 2018-19 lasted 204 days, whereas we are currently 500+ days into the bear). Many people have left the space, those who stayed may not be all very optimistic about the market.  That’s why, this week, we invited some crypto OGs (OSF...

There is a lot of talk about the future these days. The bear has stolen our picnic basket of opportunity and the market has dried up. This has a lot of people asking the question: Is it over for NFTs? If not, well then what happens next? Will we see another 2021? This week's live discussion with Ben, Luke and Emma covers the topic and invites audience members to ponder the question. Art That Fucks...

Whenever people ask what we do for a living, we still have to sus out the person asking the question before choosing an appropriate answer. Since 2021, NFT seems to be a word that’s been frowned upon by the general public, people tend to have very strong views about NFTs even if they have never purchased or transacted NFTs themselves.  This week we discussed: How do we get people to stop hati...

This week Luke, Oli and Emma went out to the audience to discuss an important conversation given the rebranding of X, formerly known as Twitter, and it's effectiveness as a platform for artists in the Web3 space. Art that Fucks: Interlude by Bárbara Carvalho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the last bull market, anything seemed possible - whether you were a newcomer lured in by the promises of PFP summer or a crypto veteran who let your guard down amid all the growth and hype, you’d be hard pressed to find someone in web3 who doesn’t have their fair share of paper hands moments to look back on. This week, Luke and Oli were commiserating over some of our biggest blockchain bust...

This week on SuperRare Sessions, we discussed the legal implications of creating using AI. It’s no secret that AI has received a lot of bad press. Artists who work with AI have unfairly been labeled as lazy and untalented by people who accuse them of art theft, people who have largely been misled by clickbaity headlines and commentators who care more about likes and shares than reporting accurate...

This week on SuperRare Sessions, Ben, Oli and Luke are joined by Anna Ridler, Ivona Tau, and Derrick Schultz who have been using GANs long before the advent of Generative AI. First, we get under the hood of GANs and learn more about them and how they are built, before we dive into our guests practice and relationship with GANs, touching on some of the questions around ownership, and ethics. Art th...

This week, Luke & Oli are discussing how we find ourselves here, in a reality where technology and art are more intertwined than ever and challenging what we think of art, what we think of original art, and the way to make it. They are joined by artists Danielle King & Santiago to discuss AI-generated art challenges traditional conceptions of creativity and authorship and questions such as...

This week on SuperRare Session, Ben, Luke and Oli are joined by artists, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick to discuss AI Art, through the ages. Artificial intelligence has taken the digital art world by storm, driving discourse and controversy as many people are learning about AI’s uses in art for the first time. But the relationship between artificial intelligence and art goes back furthe...

This week, Ben, Luke and Oli battle through Twitter glitches to bring an exciting conversation. In its earliest years, photography was a medium that brought people wonder and awe for its ability to recreate reality. It was the inception of photography that allowed painters to explore more abstract aesthetics, and over the last century it has become not just a means of documenting the world, but of...

This week, Ben, Luke, Oli and Linda discuss a topic they'd prefer not to have. Unfortunately, scams seem to bean integral part of the experience in web3. It’s better to know what they are, how to spot them, and how to protect yourself. Since the beginning of June we have received at least 5 reports of the same case of a highly sophisticated scam that specifically targets artists who are on SuperRa...

This week Ben & Luke tried something a little different, intentionally using a somewhat clickbait-y title for the Session - because, well, we were looking to get people riled up. After a little intro we invited everyone and anyone in the audience to request to speak and come up to chat, facilitating a vigorous discussion about the subject matter and comparing traditional art world pricing with...

Episode 20: This week on SuperRare sessions, Ben and Oli are joined by the artist ClownVamp to speak about his new show, “Chester Charles: The Lost Grand Master,” which opens tonight, online and in New York. Following the life and career of a fictional gay Impressionist painter, ClownVamp has used AI to build something we otherwise would maybe never get to know or see. Alongside him, we have Chris...

In this episode of SuperRare Sessions, Luke, Oli and Ben meet with two of the more industrious and dapper JPEG peddlers in the web3 ecosystem, SuperRare Labs CEO and co-founder, John Crain, and SuperRare Labs CPO and co-founder, Jonathan Perkins. We delve into the detail of $RARE staking - a proposal that has bee made to the SuperRare DAO and what it means for artist discovery. During the conversa...

In this episode, Hosts, Ben, Oli and Luke are joined by Batsoupyum, one of the most prominent 1/1 digital art collectors on SuperRare. This was a wonderful conversational to learn more about his journey as a digital art collector. Art That Fucks: Hold Me In The Dark by Rensi Ardinta Queensboro Plaza by Trina Hines Hang The DJ by mrfiretruckmanarts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

This week, we play back and discuss a conversation with SuperRare’s Chief Curator, Alessio De Vecchi. With Luke Whyte having sat down with him for an hour long chat about the history of SuperRare’s curation and where he thinks SuperRare, and the whole of Web3 Art, should head in the future - we were all eager to hear more and get a sense of the future of curation in the space. Art That Fucks: (Bla...

Last week, we kicked off our short series on gatekeeping in web3 with “Who wins in web3?: Queer creators, bias, and the blockchain.” Today, we continue to look at gatekeeping but, this time, focusing on an emerging concept we’re calling ‘guerilla curating’ or the idea of harnessing decentralized curation as a response to gatekeeping.   Ben, Linda and Luke are joined by Diana Sinclair, Re...

Queer creators: does web3 really improve gatekeeping? On Monday 15th May, we published an article in SuperRare Magazine that Oli wrote titled, “Who wins in web3?: Queer creators, bias, and the blockchain.” Behind the scenes, we talk a lot about NFTs and gatekeeping, and it’s a topic that’s become more and more relevant in the web3 creative space, a place that purports to eliminate the gatekeeping...

“Art needs curators – and so do NFTs” That’s the headline of a January 2023 article in Fast Company by arts writer and Professor of Visual Culture, Charlotte Kent, and a sentiment shared by many in the NFT art space today. Nonetheless, it remains controversial: Curation, almost by definition, leads to exclusion from the top down, an outcome that sits in direct conflict with the inclusive, ground u...

This week we're joined by the founders of 3 SuperRare Spaces. SuperRare Spaces are independently run storefronts on SuperRare that can curate art and artists, promote sales, run auctions, and collect commissions. New Spaces are proposed to the DAO and voted on by token holders. If approved by the community, a new gallery space is run by its own operating team, which could be a traditional art gall...

This week, we turn to some of the SuperRare Top Collectors to learn more about their approach to artist discovery. AOI and Artie Hands offer some really fascinating insight into curation. Art that fucks: The Oceanic Pearl by arthr (collected by basileus) FΞARLESS by ignatius_arts (collected by batsoupyum) Inconsolable Interface by Holladay Saltz (collected by colborn) Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

This week, we continue discussing artist discovery. One of the most significant differences between the traditional art world and the digital art space is the democratization of the market. With the digital art space built around communities of art lovers, many artists who gained success in selling their works turned around to reinvest in the community by collecting works from other fellow artists...

This week begins our series of episodes on tactics for how to discover artists in the NFT art space. And since SuperRare Labs has just celebrated its 5th birthday this month, we thought it would make sense to start by interviewing some of the OG collectors and early SuperRare Labs curators who helped shape what the space has become today. Most specifically, we want to understand how they began the...

This week we were joined by SuperRare co-founders, Jonathan Perkins, John Crain, and Charles Crain, and SVP, Zack Yanger. We covered origin stories, tales from within the SuperRare camp during the meteoric rise of Digital Art and NFTs between 2020 and 2022, and took a look to the future of SuperRare. Art That Fucks: UAP - Unidentified Art Phenomenon AI Generated Nude Portrait #1 1000 Hosted on Aca...