Episode 07 Part I: NFTs, Here to Stay‪?‬ Push&Play

In this episode, I spent some time talking to two of my favorite designers, Hector Silva and Mauricio Garcia Villaseñor from Advanced Design about a topic that’s been trending in the digital art world for the last couple of months—NFTs. We talked about how NFTs started and how it gained so much popularity within last few months, how it has impacted the digital art world as well as our environment, actions we need to take from an individual, corporation, and government level when it comes to a new disruptor like NFTs, and lastly, we discussed what we envision the future of the art world might look like in the next few decades. You will be hearing the first half of our conversation on NFTs in this episode, and you can catch the rest of our conversation in Part 2. You can find Hector Silva on Instagram at @hectorius_, Mauricio Garcia Villaseñor @mau_g.v, and Advanced Design @adv_des. You can find more information about Advanced Design at https://advdes.org/.

Here are a few resources that we have mentioned during this episode:

• "Defuturing : A new design philosophy" by Tony Fry

• "The problem of CryptoArt": https://joanielemercier.com/the-problem-of-cryptoart/

• "NFTs, explained": https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

• "Cryptocurrency's Newest Frontier": https://open.spotify.com/episode/2shRH9pSnWzmqINgAEXnca?si=hhRQfd9qRmO6_oeTMOgthA

Note: The Novel "The Last Day of A Condemned Man" should be attributed to Victor Hugo but not Albert Camus.