Rare digital art is a movement to take internet assets that have previously been infinitely copyable (songs, memes, etc) and turn them into provably rare, tradable blockchain assets. From "Rare Pepe Wallet" to the recent explosion of Crypto Kitties into the mainstream consciousness, it is clear that rare digital art is more than just a fringe movement experiment.
Collectible digital art is a real, fully functioning blockchain use case that people love. It's time for creators and supporters of rare digital art to get together in New York City to meet and exchange ideas about the future of the medium. Tommy Nicholas and Rare Art Labs are thrilled to be organizing this first event of its kind in New York City.
Founding member of the Rare Pepe Foundation, creator of Rare Pepe Wallet, and regular contributor to the Counterparty protocol
Founder, Crypto Kitties
Mack of the founder of Crypto Kitties, a crypto-collectibles game on the Ethereum blockchain that has driven much of the explosion in mainstream consciousness for rare digital art.
Founder, Rare Art Labs
Kevin Trinh is the founder of Rare Art Labs and Never-Not. Previously launched websites for The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, T-Pain, Fool's Gold Records, and 10.Deep Clothing.
Beatriz is the founder DADA, a social network where people create collaborative digital art that can be collected on the blockchain. Before that she owned a comic book store, worked as an artist at MTV and Disney and founded Dancing Diablo.
Creator, Cryptopunks
Matt is one of the co-creators of Cryptopunks, 10,000 unique characters you can own on the Ethereum blockchain.
Founder, Spells of Genesis
Shaban Shaame is the founder of Spells of Genesis, a game designed specifically to allow players and collectors of digital art to purchase and trade in-game cards using either in-game currency (through traditional in-game purchases), cryptocurrency, or both.
Vladimir Vukicevic is an expert in the intersection of art and technology, and CEO and Co-Founder of Meural—a company that uses a proprietary blend of hardware and software to bring art onto more walls across the world.
Looking to show the world the beauty of combining blockchain technology with video games, Kilian has been creating Age of Chains, a blockchain trading card video game playing in an intergalactic clash of cultures.
Co-founder, Dada
Yehudit Mam is the Co-founder of dada.nyc. She is a writer and cultural critic whose work has appeared on Out, Saveur, and Fusion, among other publications.
Kieran Farr is part of the founding team of Decentraland, a decentralized virtual reality community hosted on the blockchain.
Marketing Lead, Status.im
Jonny is a marketing lead at Status, the first mobile Ethereum client built entirely on peer-to-peer technologies.
Tommy is the founder of Alloy, a compliance technology company in NYC. He loves Rare Digital Art and helping creative people get their ideas out into the world.
Artist, Truebit
Erich Wood is Co-Founder and CTO of Quidd, a fun digital collecting experience with a deep digital goods foundation. Founded in 2015, Quidd offers tens of thousands of rare, officially-licensed stickers, gifs, cards and 3D figures to collect and obsess over.
Tommy Nicholas (Alloy & Rare Art Labs) and John Zettler (Commandiv & Rare Art Labs)
Joe (Rare Pepe Wallet), Matt (Cryptopunks), Mack (Crypto Kitties), & Beatriz (Dada). Moderated by Tommy Nicholas.
DJ Pepe, Jess Houlgrave, Jessica Angel (Truebit), Michael Xufu Huang (M Woods). Moderated by Jesse from Mediachain.
