Waiting To Be Signed is a weekly podcast about generative art on the blockchain. Every week we release an episode covering new releases we love, the news & happenings of the space, hot topics & more. We also release bi-weekly interview episodes with artists, collectors and builders in the space. If you want to support the show please check out our Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/WaitingToBeSigned or you can donate directly to wtbs.tez & wtbs.eth
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On Generative Anesthetics: Interview with Kevin Esherick
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In this special episode of 'Waiting To Be Signed,' the hosts interview Kevin Esherick. They discuss his journey into coding and art, his innovative 'Material' jeans project, and his notable critique on generative art titled 'Generative Anesthetics.' Kevin also shares insights into the current and future landscape of art influenced by blockchain and…
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Courtesy of Descript: In this reflective podcast episode, the hosts discuss the potential conclusion of their weekly show, considering an extended or possibly permanent hiatus. They explore the complexities of continuing the show amidst declining listenership and personal challenges. Conversations include updates on recent episodes, Trinity's retur…
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How To Start A Gallery On Another Continent: Interview with Mimi Nguyen
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WTBS adds another PhD to their esteemed list of guests! In this episode we discuss: Mimi's journey into art and tech How Mimi discovered NFT's and came to join Verse Launching the Nguyen Wahed gallery Mimi's thesis on on NFTs and the future of digital art How the [aside] protocol works and how artists are using smart contracts to incorporate data i…
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Zoom In, Zoom Out: Interview with Travess Smalley
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Very excited to share out interview with Travess Smalley, famed for Pixel Rugs and just now releasing the incredible CRAWL on Feral File. Lots of notes for this one. We discuss: How Travess got into art & coding, surf clubs, & NFTs Pixel Rugs as a daily practice & the fandom surrounding them CRAWL!!!! How does it work, what are the influences, and …
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Alternate Title: The Piter Pasma of it All In this episode of 'Waiting to be Signed,' hosts Trinity and Will discuss the week's events in the generative art world. They delve into recent market updates, notable platform news from Verse and FXHash, and examine Kevin Echerick's critical piece on generative art’s financialization. They also highlight …
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Public Art & The Dance Between The Virtual and the Real: Interview with artist John Gerrard & Whitney Hart of Feral File
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In this episode we discuss: John's history in art and simulation Whitney's career in art and how she came to Feral File The story of Western Flag becoming tokenized & John's decision to make NFTs Reconciling the ecological cost of NFTs by supporting environmental initiatives & relationships with power John's first tokenized work on the Bitmark chai…
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It's a post-holiday extravaganza! In this episode we discuss: OBJKT launches it's generative art engine with the genesis project, 'uncertain index' by Pixelfool A new anon Tezos whale loads up on a ton of great art Tezos announces the Jstz L2 which will be JavaScript compatible Tabor Robak & Verse announce the Broken Printer Recycling Program Verse…
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Making Generative Art Less Random: Interview with James Merrill
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A special Monday interview episode for y'all! So pleased to finally record with James Merrill after meeting him a couple of times in person. Hope everyone enjoy this candid conversation about his art and the craziness of the web3 world. In this episode we discuss: James' background in art and coding, and how he got into NFTs What James loves about …
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Rushing this one up, apologies for the abbreviated notes: Art Newspaper article on the Digital Art Mile at Basel Tezos X announce & explainer Marc Maurer on OBJKT Entangled on fx(hash) Crystalline Work by John Gerrard on Feral File BREEZE A by Iskra on Highlight Twitch-Your-Own AI Story by KilledByAPixel Procedural Drawings by Agoston Nagy…
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Entangled Cities: Interview with Bjørn Staal
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On the eve of on of the most exciting generative art releases of 2024, and the inaugural fx(hash) Vertex drop... we are so pleased to share with you our interview with Bjørn Staal aka _nonfigurativ_. Bjørn went viral last year when he shared his entangled particle systems interacting across two browser windows. His project is finally ready for rele…
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Y'all thought it might be a lost episode but here it is, out of sequence and edited to remove the hottest takes. Thanks to Ken for jumping in while Will was in Japan to play co-host and talk about the AB Studio launch, Marcel's work & more! If you like the show and want to support us you can subscribe to out Patreon or donate directly to wtbs.tez &…
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Magic Is Not Real: Interview with Erick Calderon (Round 2)
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Erick is back for Round 2 to discuss more about the market, web3 as a whole, the changes to AB and more! In this episode we discuss: Catching up on Erick's experiences since our last interview & skepticism of brand's with a web 3 strategy The magic between an artist and their collector base & the metrics for success in the current ecosystem Base ch…
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Will's back from Japan, Trinity is surrounded by lead, fx(hash) announces 'Vertex' & there is some great art to cover! In this episode we discuss: Trinity's lead paint saga Will's last-minute passport renewal & Japan trip recap (it was challenging) fx(hash) announces Vertex & their first project, Entangled with Bjorn Staal Metaversal is selling the…
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Generative Art is a Website: Interview with Alejandro Campos
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Long time friend and artist Alejandro Campos joins WTBS for an interview ahead of his upcoming 'Fantasia' release on Verse. In this episode we discuss: Alejandro's background in art and coding, how he got involved with NFTs & the origin of his original 'Ratchitect' artist name Why Alejandro uses music in many of his projects & starting to discuss g…
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E114 of WTBS is live! This week we discuss: Trinity isn't sleeping, we had a huge week of recording & Will is going to Japan A peak behind the curtain of our interview process Is art made by code a gimmick? What is 'excellence' and can you have excellent art without any context? Lonliboy on originality in blockchain art and collectors finally becom…
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The Distance of a Bird: Interview with Iskra Velitchkova
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WTBS is thrilled to have Iskra Velitchkova in the virtual studio for a long-overdue interview! In this episode we discuss: Iskra's background in art, coding & data science and how she transitioned to creating art full time. Finding inspiration to start working through books & "The Pause" The connections of places to moments in Iskra's work & the tr…
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WTBS Is back with E113. This week we discuss: The virtues of longboarding g l y p h breaking the unofficial record for biggest genart project ever Camille Roux starts a genart voicemail podcast! Base announces OnChain Summer 2 Burning out on crypto, hating on the Fantasy Top shilling & all the new tipping meme coins OpenSea stats are not looking go…
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Back at it with 112b! In this episode we discuss: Collect this episode on pods.media for your chance to win Aux Arbes #54933 by Zancan Aleksandra named as new Head of Art at Trillitech Our interview with Rich & Rick dropped! Rules of the Game by Mike Neff & TENDER on Verse Under The Mask, Another by Ty Vek on Highlight {yes, yes, no, yes} by Anna L…
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Uncompromising Collaborations: Interview with Rich Poole & Rick Crane
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Rich & Rick, two legendary fx(hash) collaborators, finally get the WTBS treatment! In this episode we discuss: Their backgrounds as artists and the origin of their collaborative practice The story behind 'Miniscapes', their first collab project on fx(hash) Their collaborative process and how Rich brings the "generative-ness" to Rick's design & aest…
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Computational Creativity: Interview with Erik Swahn
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Join us as we welcome fx(hash) & overall genart legend Erik Swahn to his very first podcast appearance! We have been fans and collectors of Erik for 2+ years now and are thrilled to have him on the show to discuss his practice & upcoming release, Autoscope, on Verse In this episode we discuss: Erik's background in art & coding and how he discovered…
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Lucky episode 111! The mark of the eclipse, earthquakes and Broken Printers! This episode we discuss: Eclipse viewing & Hearthstone Battlegrounds We recorded some amazing artist episodes coming very soon! Trinity is bored of Farcaster and we chat more about the platform Our pods.media experiment was a success and you can mint this episode here for …
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WTBS is back again with a post-NFT NYC episode! We discuss: We are trying out pods.media which lets you mint WTBS! Go and mint out interview episode with Snowfro for FREE (+fee) on Base The Processing Foundation announced a community fellowship, apply if you are interested! Check out our interview with Jamie from Verse + spoilers for upcoming recor…
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Evolving Verse: Interview with Jamie Gourlay, Founder of Verse
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We welcome Jamie for a return interview, a little over one year later since we last had him on! In this episode we discuss: Big lessons and takeaways for Jamie & Verse coming out of the 2023 bear market Consolidation of artists towards curated platforms & competing for releases Verse as a conduit for the gallery art world to access web3 and what ex…
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Welcome to E109 where we discuss: A quick GDC recap from Will & the surprising crypto gaming presence at the show It's NFT NYC already, again, and we aren't really sure what there is to do Tezos Foundation is sponsoring something fun for Art Basel in June Scary Stats for NFT platforms on Tezos Could fx(hash) look to $DEGEN as a model for their own …
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Building The Next Wave of GenArt Lovers: Interview with Erick Calderon
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Kicking off a series of interviews with platform founders, we are thrilled to bring you this conversation with Erick Calderon aka Snowfro. We dive deep into the recently announced changes with AB, Sansa, and the market as a whole. In this episode we discuss: Racing cars, Magic: the Gathering & Minecraft Surviving in Crypto for 7+ years, surviving t…
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In this episode we discuss: Celsius & Balatro! Verse announces updates & we announce our next interview with Jamie EIP-4844, L2 gas & our Etherlink episode is finally dropping Recapping our interview with Snowfro Barbarians Mint Pass check! Metamorphosis 1 by Darien Brito on Highlight BEHOLDER Open Edition by Aebrer on fx(hash) Losing My Marbles by…
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What Is Etherlink?: Interview with Nicolas Streschinsky
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Nicolas Streschinsky, head of DeFi at Trillitech, joins us to talk about the upcoming launch of Etherlink. Thanks to Nicolas and the Trillitech team for helping to arrange this episode. We discuss: Who is Nicolas and how did he get into Crypto? What are the goals of Trillitech and why did they start the Etherlink project? What makes Etherlink diffe…
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Keeping the notes short this week! We discuss: Our Etherlink episode is getting ready to drop + the defi accelerator program is announced Art Blocks announces big changes coming to Curated + new platform powered by their Sansa acquisition + we are about to interview Snowfro! Barbarians seeds continue to impress & mint passes are somehow still avail…
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This week everyone is sick, or caring for a sick baby, or both... so thank you in advance for understanding! This episode we discuss: Thanks to everyone who helped us get our 'Active User' badge on Farcaster! TASCHEN releases an NFT art book The Finnish National Gallery is holding a generative art competition and you can enter! fx(hash) splits the …
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Baudrillard, Blockchains & Barbarians: Interview with Jacek Markusiewicz
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WTBS lands a dream guest, Jacek Markusiewicz! Both of us have been following and collecting work by Jacek since his earliest days releasing on fx(hash). We are so excited to share this episode with him ahead of his Verse Solos release, Barbarians! In this episode we discuss: Jacek's background in art and coding & how he came to Tezos to start relea…
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E105 is live and xtra long! In this episode we discuss: Baby stuff & solo parenting Miss Metaverse & the pain, drain & necessity of using social media as a creative Trinity sniped me with a birthday tweet Yuga buys Moonbirds & not everyone is bullish on it fx(hash) is adding the Base Chain L2 on Feb 28 (and what does this mean for Tezos?) A TON is …
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New week new art new show. In this episode we discuss: Will ran a game of Survivor and crushed it! Verse onboards over 100 new users with their move to Solana Follow Trinity on Twitter to see her #TENDERED posts Join us on Farcaster and fx(hash) building their presence on this social platform Check out Heartsleeves which is almost minted out + big …
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Structural Complexity Through Visual Clarity: Interview with Kjetil Golid
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The interview streak continues! This week we are excited to talk to Kjetil Golid ahead of his Monument release on Verse. In this episode we discuss: Kjetil's background in art and coding & how he first discovered the blockchain. The history behind Archetype and Paper Armada, how they came to Art Blocks and released so close together (plus how one c…
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This week on WTBS we are talking art, kissing boys, and wondering about Solana! In this episode we discuss: Interview roundup! Be sure to check out our interview with Jan Robert Leegte + we have Kjetil Golid and Jacek Markusiewicz coming up! Sharing art on social media, the #TENDERED initiative, and helping to promote newer projects Newer Wave by b…
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Sculpting The Web: Interview with Jan Robert Leegte
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We are thrilled to bring you this special interview episode with net art legend Jan Robert Leegte! In this episode we discuss: Jan's background in art & coding + the story of how Harm van den Dorpel convinced him to give NFTs a shot The internet as a public good and the philosophy of applying ownership to it with blockchain How the culture of the i…
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E102! Busy week so we kept this on the shorter side. In this episode we discuss: WTBS is now on Farcaster Will is enjoying + recommends Cobalt Core Lots of interviews (check out LoVid!) Art Blocks acquires Sansa OBJKT announces new Galleries feature 404 by SHL0MS on Highlight Struggle For Pleasure & Swallow, Only Shallow by Harm van den Dorpel on V…
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Feeling Infinity: Interview with LoVid (Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus)
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NYC duo LoVid are in the studio and sharing a mic for a very special WTBS interview. Please check out their upcoming release on Tonic, Heartsleeves, which we discuss a bit in the episode. In this episode we discuss: The story of how Tali & Kyle met and formed LoVid The secret to successfully collaborating for 20+ years How LoVid work with code coll…
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Starting on the long road to 200 with e101! In this episode we discuss: Highlight announces their marketplace with a plan to encourage honoring royalties Highlight also releases an ecosystem report on the trends with royalties across NFTs Will & Trinity discuss the idea of 'monolithic platforms' now that Verse is confirmed to be adding Solana and i…
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Minimum Viable Mountain: Interview with Pierre Casadebeig
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Welcome to another interview episode! We are thrilled to be chatting with Pierre Casadebeig ahead of his long-awaited Tender collaboration: Ridge Regressions. In this episode we discuss: Who is Pierre & how did he get into making art? Using R to make art and Pierre's attempt at working with p5 How Pierre uses data in his art and where the generativ…
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Episode 100 we made it! In this episode we discuss: Reflecting on the E100 milestone Sotheby's Ordinals Auction Big topic discussion of SOL, BTC and artists chasing liquidity, platforms adding chains, platform survival in the current meta & more. sketch006 by Collapsar Beauty Drei by Whitekecross and yet we love by iRyanBell TIME SPECTRUM by Geoff …
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WTBS E99... we hit triple digits next week. In this episode we discuss: Beloved Ozzie is leaving the fx(hash) team We have a LOT of interviews coming up! BTC ETF approved :) and genart is coming to ordinals :( Lemonde scores a pink GM and Will connects on some offers as Galaxy continues to sell off his collection Trinity hosts a Stable Diffusion se…
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Perfection Isn't Interesting: Interview with Frank Manzano & Artie Handz
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WTBS is back with our first interview of 2024, a special episode with artist Frank Manzano & collector/curator Artie Handz! The Artie Gallery is bringing "ScheduledProgramming" to Verse on January 11, 2024. In this episode we discuss: Artie's background in art & collecting and how he came to start his Gallery with Verse Frank's background in art & …
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Short episode coming off a stretch of holidays! In this episode we discuss: Galaxy finishes the great RGB selloff and continues with the remainder of his collection What we missed in our 2023 EOY episode (royalties, AI & KenConsumer) Will collected his first piece of art on Solana Maps of Imagination by idflood on fxhash Suika Stay Home by Billy Re…
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As we enter Year 3 of the show, our 100th episode, and probably some other milestones we are forgetting... we close out 2023 with a mega year-in-review episode. We go over the major themes of the year, our favorite projects, and attempt a few predictions for 2024. Some brief notes: Will got his Generations quilt :) A pensive first discussion of Sol…
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Keeping the description shorter for this one with the holiday. Mostly we debate the launch of ETH on fx(hash) and the various factors keeping projects down. A lot of agree or disagree with here we are sure, and a topic that will be returning often in 2024. We also discuss some art, of course, including: Deerhunter by Rami Awad Blokkendoos by Piter …
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The Cult of Generative Art: Interview w/ Bre Pettis
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Bre Pettis is a generative art collector, plotter enthusiast, puppeteer and co-founder of MakerBot. We got a hint of Bre's background when he introduced himself in Tender discord some months back and got connected to bring you this collector interview episode. This one takes a few surprising turn, we hope you enjoy! In this episode we discuss: Bre'…
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fx(hash) 2.0 is fully launched and we are recapping Day 1 of ETH releases (along with other things!) In this episode we discuss: Trinity missing her flight to Miami & $POLE Hyping our upcoming interview with Bre Pettis Hacks are making a comeback fx(hash) 2.0 launch day delivers with only a few hiccups Paradigm by Ippsketch x Tender Caustic Obstacl…
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E94 of WTBS, recorded 12/7/23 and released 12/11/23. In this episode we discuss: News: fx(hash) 2.0 ETH integration delayed, Art Basel Miami & Vera Molnar passes Topic: Reacting to the 2.0 delay, start-up mentality, what the fx(hash) team did right and looking forward to the proper launch on 12/14 Will buys a grey Smollskull & HAL09999 is a favorit…
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The Aesthetic of a Pixel: Interview with Kim Asendorf
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We are very excited to complete the trifecta by bringing you a classic interview episode with Kim Asendorf. We are sharing this just a day before the AGH1 exhibition at Funkhaus in Berlin, where Kim is presenting work alongside Leander Herzog and Andreas Gysin. In this episode we discuss: Kim's background in art and coding & the journey to selling …
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Notes are short for this one as Will & Trinity convene LIVE to talk about all the projects they are pumped for on the fx(hash) 2.0 calendar. There were far too many projects to get to but we did our best to talk about as much as possible over the next 6 days. This episode is going up EARLY and without EDIT for all to enjoy... so apologies if it is …
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