SEASON 01 — EPISODE 05

Part two of our conversation with NFT leader Alejandro Cartagena walks us through some of the most historic NFT projects to date from The Book of Veles, Obscura DAO’s The World Today 10K, and Stephen Shore’s first NFT release with Fellowship Trust.

Alejandro Cartagena Part Two

SHOW NOTES

Alejandro Cartagena soundbite [00:00:01]

Episode overview [00:00:51]

Obscura DAO & The World Today Project [00:01:47]

• Web3

• The World Today 10K 

• The Family of Man 

Creating an NFT native project [00:11:41]

• Corinne Vionnet

• Darius Himes

Making money as an artist [00:22:43]

Funding & distributing an NFT project [00:26:07]

Expanding photography’s audience - connecting with NFT collectors [00:29:37]

How NFTs fit into The Passion Economy [00:37:05]

• The Passion Economy

• Patreon

• Substack

The process behind the August Sander mint [00:40:17]

• August Sander 10K

Fellowship Trust background [00:44:41]

• Fernando Gallegos 

• Substack essay on August Sander

A hiccup with the August Sander 10K [00:52:42]

• MoMA Symposium 

NFTs in a historical context  [00:59:16]

• Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography by Kim Beil 

• The Book of Veles by Jonas Bendiksen

How NFTs can grow - Using The Book of Veles as a case study [1:08:38]

• Arweave

• International Planetary File System 

• Generative art

Stephen Shore’s NFT release [1:14:14]

• Stephen Shore 

• Room 509, Dnipro Hotel, Kiev, Kyivska Province, Ukraine by Stephen Shore

Cartagena’s next moves in his practice  [1:18:39]

• Photolucida 

Sign off [01:27:28]

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