Projects
Looking for something from 2019-2024? Start here:
- SecondRealm.com, original crypto art website
- Platforms & Contracts, a list of original platforms and contracts
- Full Catalog, a catalog of all works, links, and additional information in a spreadsheet
- Linktree, original link in bio landing page
Timeline of Projects and Initiatives
A non-exhaustive archive of Second Realm's old content, artwork and projects since 2019. It's a work, in progress.
2025
- SecondRealm.art, return to pseudonimity and networked art practice with Primitives framework
- Honorary DeCC0s Club, Museum of Crypto Art
- PUNKS: NOT DED, featured collection in Sean Bonner's book
2024
- /cryptoart DAO, joined as a founding council member
- Research & Writing, 164 articles on art, life, and tech, studied emotional intelligence and AI, earned master's degree
- Primitives, blockchain protocol encoding emotions into modular primitives for composable onchain art
- Rising Tide, 58 episodes on creative work and decentralized culture with DKleine
- Technourishment, balancing art, technology, and humanity
- Zombie Futurism, examining if the art of tomorrow has lost its soul
- Honorary ittybits, Jeremy Posvar (ittybits founder)
- What is Trash Art?, MakersPlace press feature
2023
- Forever Supper Async Expansion Pack, included in Matt Kane's Forever Supper Async Expansion Pack
- Contractual Obligations, included in Matt Kane's Contractual Obligations performance art
- Fake Memes Series 0, included in collection
- Unofficial Punks V2, an extension of the original Unofficial Punks collection
- The Society, serialized pre-dystopian fiction exploring identity and surveillance through AI-assisted world-building
- Proto-Personas with AI, AI-driven proto-personas for Web3 audiences and narrative design
- Spectrum of Solitude: Explorations in Light and Shadow, Black-and-white photo exhibit featuring 10 international artists
- CryptoArt Friday Weekly Series , global weekly prompt series sparking symbolic and emotional explorations in Web3 art
- On NFTs by TASCHEN, exhibition history featured in book
- Art as Therapy, AltPunks, Trash Art, & Diamond Hearts, MakersPlace press feature
- Web3 People Portrait, created by Aleksandra Artamonovskaja
- Physical Exhibitions: Asprey Studio "ASC Member Wall" (London), Accelerate Art "A2 Mobile Gallery" (NYC), Institut Francais "NFT et crypto-esthétiques" (Casablanca)
2022
- Historic reinstatement to SuperRare, due to decentralize vote from $RARE community
- $TATR Social, peer-to-peer SocialFi protocol rewarding art distribution and connection
- CryptoPunks Derivatives Timeline, comprehensive documentation of CryptoPunks derivatives from 2017-2021
- Physical Exhibitions: Digital Surgeons "After Dinner Mints" (New Haven), SCI-Arc "A Fylthy Trash Art Exhibition" (Los Angeles), L'Avant Galerie Vossen "#Trashart: NFT Garbology" (Paris)
- Artist's Panel Moderator – After Dinner Mints: An NFT Art Showcase, Digital Surgeons, New Haven, CT, facilitated discussions with leading artists on evolving aesthetics and creative practices in the NFT space
2021
- Male Thirst Trap NFT, provocateur of the NFT space
- Unofficial Punks, derivative PFP collection catalyzing decentralized remix movement around CryptoPunks
- TrashArt Week, curated decentralized exhibition revisiting remix culture and alt-chain practice
- Outer Realm, interviewed 30 artists and technologists, published essays on digital ownership and remix culture
- AltPunks Movement, led largest decentralized art movement using CryptoPunks as template for creativity
- Trash Art Movement, pioneered CC0 and remix culture now foundational to Web3 space
- CryptoPunks Copyright Analysis, documented early industry concerns between Larva Labs and holders
- Gary Vee Interview, interviewed Gary Vaynerchuk and 30+ other artists/technologists
- NJ NFT Meetup, Built a 100-member creator community and hosted monthly meet-ups that drew ~25 regular attendees, introducing local artists to blockchain tools and platforms.
- Physical Exhibitions: IRL ART "U'R,L" (Denver), Interspace Gallery "Crypto Art Show #2" (Los Angeles)
- Press: "What Exactly is Trash Art?" (NFTS.WTF), "Men of Crypto Attempt to Master the Art of the Thirst Trap" (The Defiant)
- Museum of Crypto Art Permanent Collection, included in permanent collection
2020
- Crypto Art Quetsion of the Week, I hosted this intermittent question series for four years
- Trash Art Movement, pioneered CC0 and remix culture now foundational to Web3 space
- Historic ban from SuperRare, due to a dispute over copyright and ownership
- People's Choice Award, NFT Awards, selected by public vote for outstanding contribution to the NFT art space
- Most Innovative NFT (Shortlist), NFT Awards, shortlisted for creative experimentation and technical innovation
- $TATR Social, invented social liquidity mining protocol bridging DeFi and NFTs
- The People's Potato, minted 1B potatoes as part of social token experiment
- $TATR Memecoin, launched social token for the NFT art space
- Press: "Digital Trash" (FOMA Magazine)
2019
- Genesis Mint, one of the earliest artists to partner with SuperRare
- Second Realm Studio, launched the digital art studio