Chazz Gold is a photographer, DJ, addiction counselor and GAN/AI artist who has photographed since 1992 and works across NFT platforms as artist and collector.,,His work blends portrait photography with AI into what he calls Techno Divine Cybernetic Art, drawing on futuristic technology, sacred geometry, mysticism and spirituality. A traumatic brain injury left him in a 12-day coma and cost him the use of his dominant right hand.
He taught himself to shoot photography and make art with his non-dominant hand instead, after months recovering in the hospital.Gold describes himself as blockchain agnostic, working and collecting across multiple platforms and chains, and his art has been shown at conferences and exhibitions in more than a dozen countries. He also created Filigree and Shadows, a separate body of work.
His project Shapes of the Divine, a 100 NFTs in 100 Days collection, trended on Foundation and was featured on Known Origin, mintgolddust.io, Musee.art and Makers Place.One piece in the series, made in April 2020 during the pandemic, paired his portrait photography with the model Jessica and the live visual artist Johnathan Singer, known for collaborations with Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, Chris Dyer and Amanda Sage. A quarter of the proceeds from that piece went to Rose Haven, an organization supporting women who are survivors of domestic violence.He also collects and supports emerging artists, with a focus on women in NFTs, and built a Spatial gallery to showcase work from the community.
In November 2021 his work was shown as part of “Mask Ephemera” at the NFT.NYC Conference in New York, spanning The Edison Ballroom, the Palladium Center and the Margaritaville resort in Times Square. The exhibition also extended into the metaverse, with shows at the SearchLight Gallery in Spatial.io and Pranksy's Gallery in Decentraland.
