Experimental Impulse - Crypto Cactoid & Lady Cactoid (PF06)
Crypto Cactoid & Lady Cactoid share their journeys through art, engineering and the blockchain, talking through issues surrounding security, smart contracts and insights from the traditional art world. What are the origins of computer art ? Lady Cactoid will discuss the pioneering history of code-based art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and look to Cactoid Labs future collaborations with the museum.
ABOUT CRYPTO CACTOID
Crypto Cactoid is an artist, co-founder of Cactoid Labs and a Full Stack developer specializing in Solidity, Machine Learning and APIs, with 12 years experience working with metadata at scale, engineering SAAS systems that operate billions of API calls per month, as well as Merkle Trees, ERC721A, 1155, and L2s. He has built Contracts and Full Stack Web3 for major artists and platforms including Justin Aversano, thr33som3s, Abana Music and Nifty Gateway. Currently developing blockchain initiatives with the most experimental artists and institutions of our times.
ABOUT LADY CACTOID
Lady Cactoid is an artist, curator & co-founder of Cactoid Labs. She holds a PhD in Art History & has organized exhibitions at major museums such as the Getty, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she is currently developing an NFT initiative with Cactoid Labs. She has taught university courses on art, technology and the coming singularity, and has a prolonged interest in the intersection between technology and mysticism. She is also an author of numerous books and articles on contemporary art and the curator of two upcoming Getty PST Art + Science exhibitions.
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