NFT artist Dun joins Kevin to discuss retaining the warmth of human creation in a digital format, the joy of collaboratively combining individual pieces to create unexpected new and wonderful works, storytelling through art, and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
- Connect with Dun: Website | @dunartist | @h_aute | Makersplace | Foundation | Async Art
- Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs | Art Blocks
- Adobe Sketch Is Retiring. What’s Next Is Even Better. | Adobe
- Made for Artists | Procreate
- Photoshop | Adobe
- iPad | Apple
- Haute: Kaleidr Collection by Dun | OpenSea
- Act One Birds Collection by Dun | OpenSea
- Artist Spotlight: Pindar Van Arman and His AI Canvas Painting Robots | PROOF
- Act One. Folk Bird. by Dun | OpenSea
- Haute: Memory Collection by Dun | OpenSea
- Twelve Fables Collection by Dun | OpenSea
- 404/Error Pieces from the Haute: Memory Collection by Dun | OpenSea
- What is Kaleidr? | Okaydun
- "Meet Heg." | Dun, Twitter
- Am/Here by Dun | Async Art
- Nihtegale. Stranger and Friend. by Dun | Async Art
- HAKABOCHI
SHOW NOTES
- Who is Dun? [00:51]
- Dun shares how she went from art hobbyist to a professional in the NFT art space. [02:22]
- What tools does Dun use to create? [06:01]
- How does Dun make her digital work look like it was crafted in the real world? [08:40]
- What was Dun's first NFT drop? [10:01]
- Why does the NFT art space seem more collaborative and less competitive than the traditional, real-world art space? [11:17]
- How did Dun grow her audience after that first NFT drop? [13:56]
- What compelled Dun to include stories with her pieces? [16:18]
- Which of Dun's series has been most popular thus far? [19:32]
- Dun shares the ideas behind the animated 404/Error pieces from her Memory collection and explains why she numbered them this way. [21:46]
- On the collaborative nature of Kaleidr and how it works. [23:57]
- Who is Heg? Will Heg ever be featured in NFT format? [32:58]
- Thoughts on Dun's Async Art creations. [34:06]
- What guides the path Kaleidr takes and how it will end? What does Dun hope the final work in its entirety will convey? [37:17]
- What is (or rather, will be) MASS1362? [46:13]
- Other artists who deserve your attention. [48:47]
- Parting thoughts. [50:36]