He was entertaining collectors, signing contracts with famed auction houses and fielding requests from young artists.
He was speaking on Twitter, at conferences, and on podcasts. Suddenly Kane found himself helping build a market and lead a community. What followed was the CryptoArt explosion. I had to consciously make the decision: I’m going to bring myself back around people. “Between 20, I had barely talked to anybody,” he said. On May 6th of 2019, he minted his first artwork on SuperRare and made the decision to speak at a technology conference. And I increasingly wanted to squeeze back.” “I felt embraced by the community, it was like a warm hug. “My work is a bit of a hybrid and so finding an audience, especially within the old social media paradigm, was challenging.”īy the middle of 2017, when the original SuperRare contract was still just an unfinished file on a laptop, he all but ran out of money. And it didn’t really fit into the painting community,” Kane said. “My work is peculiar in that it didn’t really fit into the generative art community. His paintings are a melding of order, chaos, geometric shapes and delicate color palettes, like a sort of boolean poetry made by a transhuman impressionist.Īnd yet, in 2014, there wasn’t really a market for it. Through custom algorithms and traditional painting techniques, Kane manifests ideas into artworks that feel rooted deeper in human emotion than in 1s and 0s.
#Cryptocat author media backing to build software
Unable to paint amid the darkness, Kane fell back on developing the unique software that has come to define his practice.
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