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Kevin chats with Chicago native Matt Kane, whose artistic journey spans 20 years -- from traditional oil painting to generative art he creates with his own homebrewed tools.
Kevin chats with Chicago native Matt Kane, whose artistic journey spans 20 years -- from traditional oil painting to generative art he creates with his own homebrewed tools.
LINKS
- Connect with Matt Kane: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Discord | SuperRare | Gazers
- About Hocus Pocus (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) | Mmm Donut
- Japanese Woodblock Print Search | Ukiyo-e Search
- Oil Paint | Matt Kane
- Resin | Matt Kane
- Generative Art | Wikipedia
- G4P (GUI for Processing) | Quarks Place
- CryptoPunks – The NFTs That Started It All. Their Origin Story and Future Plans | Modern Finance
- RAREart.io | Instagram
- The Best Wrongs: Deconstructing the M87 Blackhole by Matt Kane | SuperRare Editorial
- The Black Hole (1979) | Prime Video
- How Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole | | NASA/JPL
- Introducing Matt Kane’s The Door: The First SuperRare Series | SuperRare Editorial
- Gazers | Matt Kane
- When Magic Is Seen in Twisted Graphene, That’s a Moiré | Quanta Magazine
- Art Blocks – Generative NFT Art with Erick Snowfro | Modern Finance
- Meules after Claude Monet by Matt Kane | Sotheby's
- NFT Digital Art That Changes with Bitcoin Price Volatility Sold for Record $101,000 | Bitcoin News
- Moon Phase Calendar | StarDate Online
- What is Color Theory? | Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
- Shadows of a Cliché Collection by Panter Xhita | SuperRare
NOTES
- Who is Matt Kane? [00:53]
- Matt began his explorations in art as a prospective artisan with a punk rock DIY sensibility. [01:44]
- How coding became part of Matt's creative process -- and saved him from self-destruction after a dark period of tragedy and transcience. [06:16]
- Matt gives us an overview of the tools he created and the way he applied them to shape the evolution of his generative art -- from a "first stab" to today's creations. [13:31]
- When did Matt feel like his disparate ideas were finally coalescing into an overarching artistic vision? What does he see for the future of this vision, and what steps has he taken to guide its continued development? [21:02]
- Does Matt consider his process so intimately personal that he'll always go it alone, or does he envision including staff who will help him expand beyond his own capacity? How does adding code to the mix extend his abilities? [26:08]
- When did Matt discover NFTs, and what traditional art problems did they solve for him? [27:49]
- From the first NFT Matt minted to the first series -- and the story connecting them. [31:25]
- Why Matt doesn't subscribe to the idea that an NFT series needs to be capped. [34:35]
- Matt shares the details of his Gazers series, a "moon phase calendar celebrating crypto art, astronomy, color theory, and generative art." [36:42]
- What aspects of Matt's work seem to appeal most to his collectors? [49:08]
- What's next for Matt? [53:12]
- Other artists Matt thinks you should check out. [54:19]
- Where aspiring collectors can pick up new Gazers and other parting thoughts. [56:26]