Kevin McCoy’s Quantum is widely credited as being the first NFT. It appears as an octagonal aura, floating on a black background with color pulsating from its core. Kevin McCoy has described the work as his interpretation of the moment of creation. Minted on the Namecoin blockchain in 2014, and later on Ethereum, after which it sold at Sotheby’s Natively Digital sale for $1.4 million, Quantum is now iconic, standing as it does at the first intersection of the blockchain and art.
Read MoreIt was a play on words that sat atop another play on words. When Sarah Meyohas envisioned Bitchcoin (2014) and launched the project in January 2015 as a physically-backed asset on a fork of Bitcoin, she was fusing art and tech with a clever metaphor. Bitchcoin was a spin off from Bitcoin, itself a name that references the financial worlds of gold, mining and speculation but Meyohas added another layer — gender.
Read MoreNili Lerner experienced an ‘aha’ moment in 2008, in the wake of the global financial crash when she realized that her artistic practice could delve into the subject of money. She was interested in the role of money in society and how one’s financial attributes represent the productive potential of each person. However, while she saw money as a superpower in the capitalist economy, she was also interested in the potential of technology to build a new kind of world.
Read MoreA fattened cow, with disturbingly bulging udders, from whose back protrudes an urban metropolis and around which Super Mario’s Rainbow Road twists and turns, is upon the mothership. The ‘Mothership’ is an American Apparel (or is it American Airlines?) space rocket and hovers to a pulsing and somewhat ominous soundtrack against a champagne sky.
Read MoreAn underground musician, Shamanic practitioner, cut-up artist, coder, and a “post y2k experience mindset state of being” are just a few of the ways that halluciphile describes himself. His personality and artistic approach are infused with so many references and influences that his output is widely varied, conceptual and not easy to define. In a nutshell, one way of putting it is that, he reaches for things beyond reach.
Read MoreSince MORROW collective became Publishers on Nifty Gateway, we’ve curated a bunch of drops with our artists and we are excited to be collaborating with the platform for Art Dubai Digital 2023. Here, we had a chat with Matthew Ferrick, Creative Lead at Nifty Gateway, to give us some insight into what makes NG tick.
Read MoreSuperRare token holders ($RARE) are in the middle of a Space Race, voting for projects that they believe will add value to the NFT community. MORROW collective are part of the Space Race and we are also collaborating with SuperRare for our Art Dubai Digital drop UAE First Immersion happening in the first week of March.
Read MoreAn interview with Marc Billings, founder and CEO of Blackdove
Q: How did Black Dove start?
A: In 2002 while visiting Art Basel I fell in love with the moving image artwork from Giles Hendrix. Raw, using the technologies of our time and unapologetically digital, the work symbolised the new generation of artists that would come after him. My co-founder Marisa and I were collecting and engaging in this new medium and built Blackdove for our own use. Only over time as the medium began to grow, did our friends and family begin to ask for our software for their own homes and offices and eventually the company was born. It has been a journey of love and support for all involved.
Read MoreWhilst most artists connect with a need for creativity at a young age, Raphael says he was brought up as a child to be fluent in the language of art. “I quite literally grew up inside a piece of art,” he said. “My mother was a painter and when she would run out of canvas she would just turn to the walls, gluing on shards of mirror and painting around them. She was an abstract expressionist and my father was a musician fluent in Middle Eastern woodwinds. We lived in a very rural area in Northern California, surrounded by woods. We had no electricity, no TV; it was just art.”
Read MoreMonaris didn’t plan to become an artist. It wasn’t her plan to embrace the photographic medium, nor to become one of the first NFT photographers. But her pursuit was instinctive and the results testify to a labour of dedication to an innate vision; her success came as a natural and deserved progression.
Read MoreColborn Bell is an intriguing sum of many parts. Perhaps best known in the crypto space for the Museum of Crypto Art (MOCA), which he founded in 2020 and to which he donated 150 of his personal collection of 1/1 NFT artworks, he is a former financier, self-declared outsider and an artist who values, above all, stories, connections and conversations.
Read MoreArchitectural design in ‘real life’ can require 100s of iterations prior to deciding the final structure. The resulting architecture must make sense logistically, fit the allocated budget and is obviously bound by physics and gravity. However, when Kirk Finkel practised as an architect, he always felt the unrealised imaginings were the most exciting, where the most stakeholders were engaged and creativity flourished; tossing them aside was to sacrifice artistry for practicality.
Read MoreBryan Brinkman can always gauge someone’s engagement with his work by the happiness they associate with it. His pastel-coloured cheerful animations may seem frivolous, jolly and fun, but most of the time, they are much more nuanced.
Read MoreOur 21st century society is drowning in images; a dizzying waterfall of visual data giving new meaning to the term ‘rapid eye movement’. What exactly compels our eyes to alight, to dwell, to focus? Branding agencies, UI designers and visual artists around the world seek the magic formula to answer that question and pause our continuous scrolling, competing over microseconds of attention, let alone minutes.
Read MoreSince the historic Christie’s and Beeple drop in March, the three letters N, F and T have morphed into one of the world’s most talked about acronyms. They carry with them a sense of mystery as well as an air of confidence for those in the know. Use the acronym boldly in conversation and you tell your friends, that yes indeed, you know exactly what an NFT is. But, let’s be honest, six months ago (or maybe more for a select few), had you even heard of the word fungible?
Read MoreMORROW collective is working with galleries and artists to bring together art from around the world in curated, themed exhibitions. One word in that sentence may stand out to cryptoart purists, who often prioritise frictionless, open and free access to making art available: curation. But is curation a bad thing in cryptoart?
Read MoreFor MORROW collective’s exhibition All-Seeing Eye, the following Q&A is part of a series of short artist interviews. The showcase was on September 28, 2023 at the exhibition’s partner space Seeing Things on Alserkal Avenue, paired with a drop on Foundation.
Read MoreFor MORROW collective’s exhibition All-Seeing Eye, the following Q&A is part of a series of short artist interviews. The showcase was on September 28, 2023 at the exhibition’s partner space Seeing Things on Alserkal Avenue, is paired with a drop on Foundation.
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