Art NFTs, ‘Snow Crash’ and the Metaverse, Featuring FEWOCiOUS

From his first NFT to his auction at Christie’s, FEWOCiOUS recounts his journey in the NFT art world.

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“This space has changed my life. I’ve met people that make me feel understood for when so long I just thought the world was cruel … Now I’ve found my people.”

19-year-old NFT artist FEWOCiOUS joins “NFT All-Stars” hosts Artnome and Marguerite deCourcelle for a conversation on how NFTs have opened up access to the art world like never before. FEWOCiOUS explains the importance of art to him as a young, transgender artist and how his journey changed when he sold his first NFT. His career has exploded since then, and he recounts a recent high point with his series “Hello, i'm Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life” that went to auction at Christie’s in 2021.

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HOSTS

Jason Bailey (Artnome)

Jason Bailey is the CEO and co-founder of ClubNFT and is well known for his popular art and tech blog Artnome.com. Having predicted the current NFT art explosion back in 2017, he was an early NFT collector and proponent of the CryptoArt movement. As the first collector on SuperRare, Jason introduced the popular marketplace to its very first artists and collaborated with the site to introduce NFTs to the traditional art world. Most recently, he founded the GreenNFTs initiative to help explore and promote eco-friendly NFT practices. Jason has written on art and technology for Art in America and the Harvard Data Science Review and has lectured at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and top universities and institutions around the world. Prior to ClubNFT, he spent two decades in senior leadership positions at tech startups before he started his own successful tech marketing and business consulting practice in 2019.

Jenny Guo

Jenny Guo is an award-winning creative producer, XR arts patron and tech entrepreneur. She has been named on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018 and to AACYF 30 under 30 list in 2020. She was also recognized as the top 10 Asian Americans Entrepreneurs in 2021.

Backed by HTC , Binance Lab and other big funds, her company Highstreet is building a commerce-centered MMORPG ( massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game) using VR and blockchain technology.

Marguerite deCourcelle

Marguerite deCourcelle (better known as coin_artist) is a technologist, game designer and blockchain enthusiast. She is the CEO of Blockade Games, a company that designs puzzles and games built on blockchain technology. Her contributions to cryptocurrency puzzles and art have been featured in MIT techreview, BBC and NPR.

BT is a classically trained symphonic composer, musician, arranger, orchestrator and NFT artisan. His work includes Oscar-winning films and critically acclaimed series. He is credited as a pioneer of the Trance and IDM genres.

He has created a slew of widely adopted plug-ins, used in everything from “Star Wars” and “Stranger Things” to No. 1 country music records.

BT has written, produced for Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Gabriel, Howard Jones, Tiesto, Depeche Mode, Armin Van Buuren, Sting, NSYNC, Blake Lewis, The Roots, Madonna, Britney Spears and more.