In It For The Art

Lori is a storm photographer from Tucson, Arizona capturing the beauty and awe of thunderstorms, tornadoes and dust storms in the western United States all the while, championing the voices and work of fellow artists and excluded groups in the emerging digital art space. Her work has attracted international attention from brands and awards and allowed Lori to experience her own catharsis among the dangers and wonderment of natural phenomena. A proud Hispanic transwoman who shares her success with others, Lori dedicates significant time to elevating, supporting and onboarding women, LGBTQIA and other depleted groups of artists and collectors in her personal time.

twitter: @lorigraceaz

instagram: @lorigraceaz

Travis is a conceptual artist in NYC creating sophisticated physical and digital works that reflect on the connection of self with the outside world - everyday and cosmological – and encourage viewers to reframe conceptions of material goods and established systems.  He helped beta test SuperRare and was the 4th artist to join the platform. Southworth began making digital art in the 1990s but has work ranging from sculpture, collage, print & photography. His more recent collections of abstract digital art comment on the interactions of digital and physical systems in the modern age and how they shape digital dependency, perception of self, and cosmology.

twitter: @travisleroy

instagram: @lesouthy

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Georgina is an Australian painter and artist informed by immersion in Eastern artistic traditions, visual language and philosophies. She is also a PhD candidate  at the University of Queensland where she studies The Art & Science of Traditional Chinese Painting. Formerly, Hooper served as a research scholar to Tianjin University where she learnt a practice of traditional Chinese painting under the tutelage of the Head of the School of Art and Architecture at TU, Professor Dong Ya. Her work is meditative, measured, and multi-sensory. She is deeply inspired by the natural world, and the Chinese philosophical concept of 禮 li (cosmic principle or truth). Her interpolation of classical Chinese painting, uses traditional calligraphic strokes with modern abstraction - creating abstract composites with strokes and mark making on raw surfaces.

twitter: @GEORGINAHOOPER_

instagram: @georginahooper_au

Caleb is a photographer from Brooklyn, NY "creating work that celebrates the beauty and freedom of living authentically." His photography revolves are the imagery and characterization of flowers as a way to explore and to share the journey of his own sexuality and comfort expressing his innermost self. The flowers are self-portraits that only begin to scratch the surface of a story that Caleb has grown comfortable now sharing. As the flowers are partially submerged in water, so too are the details of Caleb's emergence as a proud gay man who can openly celebrate his freedom. "Placing them in water - outside of their expected environment - forces them to be seen with new eyes... Like I did when I first started allowing myself to enjoy them."

twitter: @calebleeadams

instagram: @calebleeadams

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Marjan is a critically acclaimed digital artist, animator, writer and professor of Computer Graphics, Animation and Virtual Media at Long Island University whose 3D compositions explore narratives of humanity interfacing with information systems in the postdigital age. She was the featured artist for the launch of DOTCOM Gallery and International Forum for the Digital Arts in 1996, the first internet based digital art gallery in NYC and is a 5-time selection of the Siggraph Computer Animation Festival & art gallery (world’s top computer graphics festival). Hailed as a “trailblazer in the world of digital art” (Herald Tribune) and “the first lady of Animated Painting” (the Examiner), Marjan explores political, cultural and philosophical issues of the day using classic artistic processes as well as generative and algorithmic ones.

twitter: @TheMarjan

instagram: @marjan_moghaddam_artist

Tony Fabro is the mastermind behind Three Panel Crimes - a webcomic that tells a complete crime story in just three panels, once per week. He is a writer and director from Los Angeles who has collaborated with 400+ visual artists and musicians to compose detailed short stories through the lens of criminology that reveal something deeper to the viewer about themselves and the world around us. What started in 2018 as a dare behind a comic store has grown into a remarkable anthology of human psychology and thoughtful storytelling. Each 3-panel comic its own haiku. Not always obvious, there are many layers and intricacies beneath the surface. The meaning may completely change by switching the order of the panels. Like a kind of puzzle or mystery, they can sometimes be solved to unlock alternate endings

twitter: @3panelcrimes

instagram: @threepanelcrimes

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

stevie is a generative artist, engineer and entrepreneur from Brooklyn, NY using conceptual art to create new ways of understanding the philosophical implications of participation in the absurd, disgusting, and confusing aspects of modern social circles and economics. His experiments on-chain and off test the limits of how art can be delivered to an audience – often more closely resembling virtual performance art rather than a collection you'd expect at a fine art museum. Whether it's impressive or idiotic is for the audience to decide. The internal dialogue of living through financial crisis, incendiary elections, and a global pandemic has manifested into a self-referential network of websites & art collections dripping in satire and bordering on dadaism - most of which are developed with code.

twitter: @steviepxyz

Habiba is a minimal-realist digital artist, illustrator and poet born in Spain, based in London inspired by women and the emotions surrounding uncertainty, loss and regeneration whose fictional characters embody wisps of feelings, people and things embedded in memories. She primarily makes portraits, especially of the female figure. Though not all self-portraits, her works are largely biographical but also incorporate others’ experiences to connect as deeply as possible with the viewer. Habiba's signature illustration style has drawn interest for collaborators to illustrate book jackets for contemporary writers and work for brands like Smirnoff, Sony & Jillian Dempsey.

twitter: @Habibagreen

instagram: @habiba.gn

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Roberto Salazar is an experimental photographer and algorithmic post-photography artist from Monterrey, Mexico primarily exploring the beauty in objects and their many possible forms through creation and destruction. His penchant for poetry and physical matter are combined with new age digital processes that may be warped from their original functional purpose to create glitchy, surreal works that inhabit the liminal space between digital and physical. A background in graphic design has informed a unique perspective for algorithmic thinking and presentation of content to audiences which Roberto explores the limits of and uses to create meta commentaries on contemporary art and technology.

twitter: @rob_amfr

instagram: @rob_amfr

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

godmin is an anonymous one woman powerhouse generative glitch artist, web designer and developer from Rio de Janiero, Brazil combining early 2000s nostalgia with art, science and blockchain technology to create timeless works that keep the spirit of imagination and innovation alive. More than just a token or visual image, godmin delivers an experience. Upn entering the heaven.computer website, viewers of the site were greeted by interactive applications and Windows era animations to accompany the minting process of their Ghost Software.  Though thisis just the surface - she has also delivered interactive software for Ghost holders, included a thesis about on-chain astrology and created unique applications to play games and warp the tokens in the collection.

twitter: @heaven_computer

Nickelly Garbaje is an experimental multi-media artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil conjuring a revival of late 90s, early 2000s internet culture with 3D characters, magical dreamscapes, digital collages & abstract figures dripping with nostalgia of a pre-Zuckerberg open metaverse. • Nickelly is a member of the Brazilian underground art collectives @cyber5upremacy & @magma_xyz and a co-founder of @hivemind_DAO – a project helping emerging XTZ artists gain visibility. Her work, curated by @katecursed was exhibited at the @accelerateart show in NYC this summer. Emo, scene, myspace, Tamagotchi, vaporwave, internet chatroom, surreal memes, shitposting, metaverse, futurism, glitch, trash, ironic, kawaii, cyberspace are just a few of the words that zoom through the minds of a new viewer to Nickelly’s eclectic, hyper-online art style.

twitter: @Nickellygarbaje

instagram: @nickellygarbaje_

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Empress Trash is a multiversatile digital artist and nomad who embraces abstraction, surrealism, trash, glitch art, and AI to color her personal journey of self-discovery and connect the realms of emotion, spirit and physical being. As a survivor of extreme abuse as a child from a schizophrenic, addict mother, Empress Trash uses art as a safe space to confront her personal demons and share the expression of beauty within herself and of the world around us.

Twitter: @EmpressTrash

instagram: @theempresstrash

bhare is a first-generation Barbadian American abstract artist based out of Charlotte, North Carolina illustrating the complex thought patterns of an over-active mind in the cacophony of vices, questions, expectations, decisions and fears that we grapple with daily. Bhare has described his position as a “selfish painter” – he doesn’t use his work to speak on current events. The pieces dive deeper into his own psyche. For those that care to listen, his works are a visual expression of the noise that comes from the inner voice of our narrator.

Twitter: @BHAREBOY

instagram: @bharestudio

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Figure 31 is the digital persona of Loucas Braconnier’s an on-chain digital artist supported by different computer generated images, photographs, sculptures, texts, and virtual spaces. The visual and conceptual body of work presented by Figure31 questions the ever evolving relationship between reality and technology. All artworks are first created on-chain and are available for anyone with an internet connection.

Twitter: @figure31_

Brian Morris is a life-long Chicago-based artist who after 25 years in digital agencies has devoted his energy to image making. He creates custom art in his signature glass style for a broad range of clients and projects. Brian is a life-long Art He most recently held the roles of Executive Creative Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Chief Creative Officer at Mirum (WPP). His experience in delivering world class creative, creative leadership, digital experience design, and business development have shaped how he approaches creating Art in Web3 (excerpts taken from artist website https://www.brianmorris.art/about).

Twitter: @ooo000ooo

instagram: @_brianmorris_

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

JM Miller is a fine art photographer based out of Chicago. His genesis piece, Tensions Print, was featured and sold in Sotheby's Metaverse auction in 2021. Joey's work pulls from personal life experience - especially incorporating themes of grief, addiction and solitude. He is also an avid consumer of art history which influences his artistic process.

Twitter: @iJmillz

instagram: @jomillzzz

Santiago Marquez is an abstract artist from Uruguay with an unexpected day job in dairy science. His cult following of patrons online is eclectic as the art he produces - using a wide array of tools and mediums, both physical and digital.

Twitter: @neymrqz

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Rare Scrilla is a DJ, producer & cryptoartist from Arlington Virginia, creating audiovisual artifacts documenting the evolution of modern culture. In some circles he is known as J Scrilla, an established DJ and producer in the hip hop scene for more than 15 years whose production credits (and album art) include Mobb Deep, Benny the Butcher, Tragedy Khadafi, ANKLEJOHN, Rome Streetz, Cassidy, Noreaga & Heltah Skeltah. By others he is known as Rare Scrilla - a cryptoartist and creator of Fake Rares - a new evolution of the early blockchain collectible project, Rare Pepes. Scrilla’s art is laden with themes of popular memes, blockchain history and hip hop fundamentals. He is the creator of the first music NFT, DJ Pepe, and of the “Art on the Blockchain” podcast – a cryptoart podcast tracking the early movements of the scene in 2017-2019.

Twitter: @ScrillaVentura

instagram: @thescrillionaire

Adewale Mayowa is a conceptual self-portrait photographer and ballpoint pen artist from Lagos, Nigeria using various art forms to explore storytelling the conflicts, conversations, and hidden truths that lie within the universe inside oneself and the universe outside oneself. It wasn't until his final year in medical school that he began to consider whether a lifetime as a doctor would sustain his soul – leading him on a journey of self-exploration through art. Adewale’s art contains aspects of surrealism and futurism that give visual representation to the unexplained systems that govern our thoughts, emotions, and conversations with the inner voice and the outer world.

Twitter: @_AdewaleMayowa

instagram: @_adewalemayowa

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Amber Vittoria is an artist and poet working in New York City; through simple abstracted form, ribbons of color and joyous words, her work aims to represent the nuances of womanhood. Her upcoming book "These Are My Big Girl Pants: Poetry and Paintings on Womanhood" with Andrews McMeel is available for pre-order. Amber is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Recipient, One Club Young Gun, Society of Illustrators Gold Medalist, American Illustration Chosen Winner, AOI World Illustration Overall Winner, and ADC Annual Award Winner. Her work has been recognized by Print Magazine, It’s Nice That, Computer Arts, HuffPost, and Teen Vogue. Some of her clients include Facebook, Warby Parker, Apple, The New York Times, NBC, Google, Gucci, Condé Nast, Adidas, and Snapchat.

Twitter: @amber_vittoria

instagram: @amber_vittoria

Omar Z Robles is an NYC-based street photographer capturing everyday citizens in their natural habitat but also juxtaposing ballet dancers against rugged city landscapes. By placing the dancer on the pavement, Robles seeks to share the joy, the thrill, and the hope dance evokes with everyone across race, gender, nationality, and income level. The dancer transforms before our eyes, into a symbol of prowess in the city – any city – and providing a vision of what may happen if art is suddenly all around us, all the time. Robles amassed a portfolio that includes Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Marc Anthony, Sara Montiel, among others.  His photos, stories, and videos have been featured on Instagram’s Blog, My Modern Met, Mashable, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, Design Taxi, and Harper’s Bazaar, and more.

Twitter: @OmarZRobles

instagram: @omarzrobles

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Dimithry is a Haitian-American painter, illustrator and animator whose work incorporates elements of portraiture, cartoons, and abstract to create a sense of visual empathy between viewers and painted figures. Growing up as an immigrant in Miami he was exposed to a variety of different people and cultures. These experiences are what inspire his current work. His work serves to highlight the experiences of marginalized groups that may often be overlooked but are fundamental in making them who they are. Victor has exhibited his work in London, New York City, Miami and more.

Twitter: @dimithryv

instagram: @dimithryvictor

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Alejandro Cartagena is a critically acclaimed photographer in the traditional art world from Monterrey, Mexico now building the infrastructure for photography to thrive in the web3 space as a co-founder of Fellowship Trust, RAW DAO and Obscura DAO. He has been doing solo exhibitions since 2005, has been collected by SFMoMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, the MFAH and his publication/award history is too long to list.

Twitter: @halecar2

instagram: @alexcartagenamex

Hagar Wirba is a Cameroonian and Nigerian photographer living in Toronto whose work aims to celebrate and immortalize people and places that make up her personal journey. Capturing the impermanence of life using the permanence of the blockchain and physical media.  Her work has strong themes of femininity, intimacy, vulnerability and authenticity.

Twitter: @ailleursss

instagram: @hagarr_w

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Chadwick Tyler is A New York based photographer who's shot just as many tractors as he has models for Alexander Wang, Levi’s and Balenciaga. He's the co-founder of @fellowshiptrust - helping build an NFT collection of photography from the 19th century to the present day. Chadwick has achieved critical acclaim through fashion photography. He's shot for magazines like Dazed, Another to Garage, and W Magazine. His  subjects (and friends) include popstar Lady Gaga and model Maggie Rizer among others. Chadwick didn't find himself with a camera in hand, surrounded by supermodels at a young age. He grew up in a small town in Florida. The kind with three Walmarts within 5 miles. The range of experience in his life captured is by his work.

Twitter: @chadwicktyler

instagram: @chadwicktyler

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Matthew Stone is a London-based painter, writer, photographer, DJ & optimist known for his multilayered digital paintings and the free spirited ethos of his work. His exhibitions, in both physical and digital realms, explore the choreography of humanity that links us. In 2003, he co-founded the artist collective !Wowow! for artists to curate and invest in what they believed in as opposed to cutting their teeth as unpaid interns. Matthew has collaborated with many artists in fashion, written media, visual arts, and music - perhaps most famously creating the album cover for FKA Twigs sophomore album, MAGDALENE. He was one of the first artists to create a custom Snapchat filter. Norman Rosenthal likened him to Damien Hirst. Elton John is rumored to own one of his group portraits. 

Twitter: @ArtMatthewStone

instagram: @matthewstoneart

Shannon Linder is an analog photographer from New Jersey with a love for all things surreal, whimsical, delightful & strange. She describes herself as “delightfully unhinged” and it is reflected in her work which can often be as puzzling as it is beautiful. Her photographs wrap the viewer in psychedelia – putting them into a state of trance that relieves tension but raises many questions. Her choice of wardrobe, setting and expression simulate characters in the narrative – inviting the viewer to derive their own meaning, just as one would from their own dream the night before.

Twitter: @shannonsonfire

instagram: @shannonsonfire

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.

Jenni Passan is an artist from Finland making AI digital paintings using GAN, Artbreeder, other software. A self described “knowledge geek” – addicted to learning and infatuated with what is possible through science, technology, math, AI, and time. “Machine has got no emotional to limit what it's able to create”

Twitter: @PasanenJenni

instagram: @jennipasanenart

crashblossom is a London-based artist making dynamic cryptoart using neural networks and on-chain code to explore how our identities become splintered in the metaverse. His latest project, BURNER, is a collection of 256 dynamic art pieces that change every block in response to live Ethereum gas price data.

Twitter: @crashblossom1

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Stellabelle is a cryptoartist and the founder of the 2017 cryptoart collective Slothicorn to fund and educate emerging artists. She is the creator of the cc0 satirical PFP project Cryptostellas and the author of the 2015 book "Un-Crap Your Life: Navigating Life's Crappiest Situations". After finding Steemit in 2016, Stella learned that she could earn money in the form of cryptocurrency for her writing and artworks. Her participation and investment in early blockchain-based projects has helped onboard hundreds of artists to the space that originally allowed her to quit her day job and pursue art full-time.

Twitter: @stellabelle

instagram: deleted

Pat Dimitri is a Los Angeles based touring guitarist, composer, producer, and consultant of 10 years. His current focus is creating audio-reactive digital artworks. He has toured internationally and performed for crowds of ten to tens of thousands of people. After the 2020 pandemic, Pat was introduced to NFTs by friend and photographer Dave Krugman and decided to test his skills in this new arena after gaining enough visual art proficiency to "trojan horse" his music into people's ears. In 2021 he was able to earn more than any prior year of his entire career, by selling his work as digital art.

Twitter: @Pat_Dimitri

instagram: @pat_dimitri

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Kiffy is a cartoonist, illustrator and animator from New York City using both physical and digital mediums to create characters inspired by childhood cartoons and his personal emotions. His most recent exhibition was at the Wild Geese Gallery on September 8th 2022 in NYC.

Twitter: @Kiffy_The_Pit

instagram: @kiffy_the_pit

Rachel Wood is a self-taught landscape photographer and nomad - living out of a van to travel to remote areas to document their natural splendor. She is the founder of Artverse - a project connecting artists and collectors in the metaverse. She is joined by her collector, Matt who expresses his interest and connection to Rachel's work.

Twitter: @RachelSTWood

instagram: @thetravelingelf

"In It For The Art" is a live show happening weekly on Twitter Spaces hosted by Cooper da Yung OG and Aaron Ferguson every Wednesday at 6PM EST. Episodes are uploaded as a podcast after the fact. To join us live and ask questions of our guests, follow Cooper and Aaron on Twitter and wait for the next show reminder link.