by Shannon Chen See, lorepunk | May 8, 2024 | blog, community, conVERSEverse
A museum acquisition of artwork is a BIG deal. In web3, we’ve celebrated moments such as Cozomo de Medici’s donation to the LACMA and the Centre Pompidou’s acquisition of several NFTs. Museum acquisitions are a signal to the wider world that says: “These cultural...
by Nicole Tallman | Apr 1, 2024 | blog, conVERSEverse
Books have been my constant companions from as far back as I can remember. I am an only child, and I lived six hours away from the rest of my extended family growing up. I spent a lot of time entertaining myself as a child by reading, and I developed close bonds with...
by Shannon Chen See | Apr 1, 2024 | blog, community, conVERSEverse
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Feb 15, 2024 | blog, community, conVERSEverse, poets
“At night, I do the dream work. And then I try to reconstruct fragments of them using an artificial intelligence model trained on my photos and obsessions, spanning my childhood right up to the present day” – aurèce vettier describes le travail des rêves, a collection...
by Shannon Chen See | Feb 15, 2024 | blog, conVERSEverse, events
“Poetry stops us and gives us something in common. I still believe that we could get poetry more into the public world.” — Marie Howe, American poet and NY State Poet Laureate (2012-2014) The question of whether art should be a public good is debated,...
by Shannon Chen See | Feb 24, 2023 | blog, community, conVERSEverse
Nathaniel Stern is an awkward artist, writer, and teacher who likes awkward art, writing, and students. He is a Fulbright, NSF, and NEA grant recipient, a Professor of Art, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an Associate...
by Shannon Chen See | Sep 5, 2022 | blog, community, conVERSEverse
Nicole Tallman is a poet, ghostwriter, and editor. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in Miami, serves as the Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County, Poetry and Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review and an Associate Editor for South Florida Poetry...
by Shannon Chen See | Jul 15, 2022 | blog, community, conVERSEverse, poets
Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök is currently working on The Xenotext — a project that requires him to encipher a poem into the genome of...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Jun 20, 2022 | blog, community, conVERSEverse, poets
Johnny Dean Mann is a writer, poet, and visual artist. Based in the UK, Johnny collaborates with humans and machines worldwide to make web3 more accessible to creatives and the public. He co-founded The Tickle magazine in 2021 and publishes his own NFTs under the name...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Jun 11, 2022 | blog, community, conVERSEverse, poets
Denise Duhamel is an inaugural theVERSEverse poet with an esteemed background in the traditional poetry world. Her poetic collection for the gallery explores the recent death of her mother, the commodification of feminism and the female form, and the social...
