Projects

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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