Season 1 - EP 2
What happens when an artist collected by SFMOMA, the Getty Museum, and the US Embassy (to name a few) expands from the traditional art world into NFTs? From her first drop with Quantum to the possibilities NFTs have created for her practice, visual artist and filmmaker Klea McKenna guides us through her experiences within the NFT realm.
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Klea McKenna
SHOW NOTES
Klea McKenna soundbite [00:00:01]
Episode overview [00:00:34]
Klea’s background [00:01:29]
Polaroid transfers
Photograms
Veil image
Almost Visible - Documentary
In The Make
The struggles women artists & moms face [00:15:04]
Postpartum depression
Post traumatic growth
The road to NFTs [00:21:02]
Euqinom Gallery
Quantum
The First Drop: No Feeling Is Final [00:26:39]
Klea’s NFT projects
Installation at SFMOMA “Close To Home: Creativity In Crisis”
August Sander 10K
Creating an NFT & working with Quantum [00:31:19]
No Feeling Is Final Video Journal
A new income model for artists [00:35:38]
Resale royalties in art
The Artist Contract
NFT royalties
The first drop resales [00:44:44]
The Second Drop: How Forests Think [00:46:32]
How Forests Think video
How Forests Think on Foundation
Deciding why a project works as an NFT [00:51:04]
The possibilities of NFTs as a medium [00:53:04]
NFT apprehensions [00:58:44]
NFTs influence of Klea’s practice [01:04:38]
Alan Watts
Marliyn Minter
NFT collectors, culture, and community [01:07:35]
Navigating the pushback [01:11:42]
Environmental concerns
NFT scams
The future of NFTs [01:14:46]
Sign off [01:17:46]
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