Join us for a conversation with Joe Gazza and Jordan Norwood from The Whitelist, Teto from The Creepz and NFT collector Arthemort, and Sandie and Paola from Team Hackatao where we will discuss their PFP origin stories and the utility behind them.
Featured Artists & Speakers: Joe Gazza and Jordan Norwood from The Whitelist, Teto from The Creepz and NFT collector Arthemort, and Sandie and Paola from Team Hackatao
Hosted by: Jess Conatser & Veronica Stabley
Organized by Studio As We Are
Date: Thursday, May 26th, 2022
Time: 12pm EST
Location: Infinite Objects Twitter Spaces
About the Speakers:
Joe Gazza - Upon graduating from Penn State University, Joe Gazza began working for a sports agency representing professional athletes for 10 years before joining The Whitelist and Web 3. He is fascinated by the technology behind NFTs and how in real life utility paired with NFTs will lead to sustainability within this space.
Jordan Norwood is an 8-year NFL Alum and Super Bowl Champion. He is the founder of The Whitelist Aces Collection, which is a lifestyle brand and membership focused on access to sports events and experiences and vacation rental opportunities.
Teto is a French digital artist who started NFTs in January 2021. Tech lover, he released in October an on-chain generative collection called The Creepz. This project is unique in many ways and tries to innovate in key areas of NFTs.
Arthemort is a crypto art specialist, involved with the topic of blockchain synergy with the He is in the art industry since 2017 and is the curator of the NewFrenchTouch SuperRare space.
Hackatao was born in 2007 as OG artists among the pioneers of the international Crypto Art movement, having minted their first artwork on the blockchain back in 2018. In these early years, Hackatao actively participated in the construction of the cryptoverse and the NFT space. Hackatao investigates historical and pop cultural phenomena in their signature flat style, shedding light onto contemporary social, political and environmental issues and debates.
Sandie and Paola, as members of Hackatao Team, will discuss Queens+Kings, a project born in the Hackatao discord community. 6,900 Q+K genderless, fluid avatars are composed of individual detachable NFT traits that are interchangeable, randomly allocated and algorithmically generated.
Hackatao collaborated on this project with NFT Studios and was supported by Sotheby’s. Queens+Kings allows for collectors to become co-creators and dynamically transform their sovereign avatars.