Dadara talks about being a full-time artist since the 90s. We explore his early career in the burgeoning house music scene designing flyers, posters and live painting at events around the world. He talks about his large scale projects at Burning Man, his fascination with human perception and how it can be influenced. Dadaism, art, blockchain art, NFTs and technology as an artistic medium.
Topics discussed:
- 1:20 - Dadara's Bio & History
- 3:00 - Dadara’s Inspiration & Identity as an artist incl Jules Deelder and Dada
- 5:05 - On (not) going to Art School, making a living from art and being a millionaire
- 7:30 - On following your passion regardless of opinions
- 9:12 - On peoples’ reactions and social media
- 12:00 - More on Dadara’s art - record sleeves, dance music, flyers, live painting at parties globally, burning man and more
- 16:25 - The web3 revolution and the new distribution platform for artists
- 19:30 - WTF? Learning by doing
- 22:45 - New technology through the years and NFTs
- 27:42 - web3 user experience (hint - it’s not good)
- 24:09 - Advice to artists on exploring web3 and NFTs
- 28:45 - Don’t shoot the medium, art is art
- 32:00 - (Crypto) Grey Man - Origin Story - OG: Original Greyman
- 35:07 - Crypto Grey Man - Physical V Digital and NFT
- 39:50 - Some of the advantages & disadvantages of digital / NFT art over physical art
- 44:10 - Burning man controversies
- 46:20 - Crypto Grey man - the big project
- 55:45 - Technology behind Grey Man
- 58:00 - Crypto Twitter Grey Man Day
- 58:45 - Only 7.9 billion left
- 1:00:00 - Trying new things and the long tail of art
- 1:02:12 - Advice to artists - stay true to yourself
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://dadara.nl/
- https://kochxbos.com/Dadara/Getting-Lost-in-the-Beauty-of-Chaos
- https://cryptogreyman.com/
- https://burningman.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Deelder
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/