Ep 8 - Accelerating Art - Ben Roy and Claire Silver Have a Vision To Drive Artists Forward

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Our guests today are Claire Silver and Ben Roy from Accelerate Art. These two dynamic people are creating a fantastic way to showcase artists in the MetaVerse and helping them become artists with a presence in the NFT world. 

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How they met and created Art Accelerate 

Why they created it and what they hope it will do for artists in the NFT space

How Claire became an artist after having a chronic illness

How Claire creates AI based art and what that process involves

Why Ben has an interest and enthusiasm for art. 

Structure of the organization as a non-profit

What they are actually doing and how they are building a vault of art - a permanent gallery of artists

How they might tokenize the art they collect. 

Functioning as a non-profit with other galleries as well. 

The first cohort of their organization, what the artists are like and what they are looking for in artists for their project

We discuss their list of first artists - 

Justin Aversano - a photographer - Miami Punk invasion

Felipo Mugni - a digital artist they found on Instagram doing abstract portrait art with a punk vibe

Bad Munks - Luke Shannon - Generative art

Shivon Wong - Beautiful ethereal 3D feminine portraits

Amerat Paul Sing - Cute pop toy faces - female astronauts recently

Help them take care of the minting. 

Not taking a percentage in the first show

They did an auction to bring these folks up

Interesting building them in cryptovoxels, because of what they have to do to get them used to what happens in cryptovoxels. 

Accessibility is important, because IRL it is difficult to get people to galleries in the real world, but with metaverse, it is much easier for them to experience. 

Working with a gallery in the Bronx for a gallery to let anyone can put up their art and just have it in Cryptovoxels. No submissions or gate keeping. 

They are in the trial process to figure out how they want it to work, but for now doing OpenSea based auctions. 

Artists are minting the pieces themselves now, but may be doing layer 2. 

Get into the details of what they think may happen, but are being smart about how they roll  it out. 

Are going to increase to 8 artists where 4 are thematic for each show/community. 

How they foresee working with artists and what they will provide will really be based upon their needs and where they are at this time. 

Brainstorming ideas for expanding what they do. 

Vision for creating an art district in Cryptovoxels and they are in the right place there to do it - gangnam district. 

Launching a support token

https://y.at/%F0%9F%9A%80%F0%9F%8E%A8%F0%9F%8D%BE

https://twitter.com/accelerateart

https://twitter.com/benroy__

https://twitter.com/clairesilver12

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