founders
Ana Maria Caballero
Ana María Caballero is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil from romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. She’s the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, a Future Arts Writer Award and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Recognized as a leading voice in contemporary digital poetry, her work has been nominated for a MAXXI BVLGARI Prize in the Digital Sector, shortlisted for a Lumen Prize and been a finalist for both the Vassar Miller and Academy of American Poetry Prizes. Her poetry has been widely published and exhibited in museums, galleries and public spaces worldwide..
Kalen Iwamoto
Kalen Iwamoto is a conceptual crypto writer and artist exploring the intersection of art and language on the blockchain. Her work takes blockchain technology and crypto culture as its point of departure, and focuses on playfulness, exploration, and experimentation to push the boundaries of the NFT medium and of conceptual writing and art.
Sasha Stiles
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher probing the intersection of text and technology. A pioneer of generative literature and blockchain poetics, she is the recipient of a Future Art Award and a nominee for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and Poetry Mentor to the humanoid android BINA48 since 2018. Her first book, Technelegy (Black Spring Press Group, 2021/2022) has been hailed as an “instant techno-classic.”
Community Manager
Elisabeth Sweet
Elisabeth Sweet is a poet exploring patterns of randomness. Her poetry has been exhibited in New York City, Paris, and Tallinn. Elisabeth works with decentralized teams to produce art exhibitions across the world and online. She enjoys facilitating discussions around art, process, and philosophies of meaning. She proudly curated The SOURCE Talk Series, hosted on Feral File. Elisabeth is Community Manager at theVERSEverse and Communications Lead at Bitmark.
Strategic Advisors
Keith Grossman
Keith Grossman is a leader in global media. He has transformed the ways major companies such as Conde Nast, Bloomberg, and Time engage with their digital audience. During his tenure as the President of Time, Time became a bonafide bridge between traditional media and web3 – they began accepting ETH as a form of subscription and launched TIME Pieces. Keith is the President of Enterprise at Moonpay.
Matt Medved
Matt Medved is the co-founder and CEO of nftnow, an organization that focuses on empowering creators and fostering community in web3. Before co-founding nftnow with Alejandro Navia and Sam Hysell, Matt was the senior vice president at Modern Luxury and editor-in-chief of Spin.
Advisors
Gisel Florez – Art Advisor
Gisel Florez explores the ways in which we are interconnected in this space of existence using manual camera techniques & conceptual practice. Drawing upon traditional still & cinematic methods using a digital 4×5, she incorporates art with immutable technology on various platforms & blockchains. Founder of @OFFONGallery & Co-founder of WOCA (Women of Crypto Art)
James Yu – Tech Advisor
James Yu is a writer, artist, and technologist. His work explores how technology mediates our everyday experiences. You can find his stories featured in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, VICE Magazine, and his AI generative art on hic et nunc and Foundation. He is also the creator of Sudowrite, the creative AI tool for writers.
He lives in San Francisco with his wife, two kids, and a growing number of AIs (none sentient yet.)
Julien Silvano – Creative Advisor
Julien Silvano is a pluridisciplinary artist. He graduated with a DNSEP (MFA) from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art in Grenoble, France. He explores the intersection of art, technology and our relationship to systems of communication and data creation.