Serendipity Machines and Hypercultures — LGHT, Gami

LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores web3, art, NFTs, DAOs, memetic icons, hypercultures and more at lght.mirror.xyz. Publishing imaginative concepts, research, insights and models. Gami is our first returning guest, a member of Nouns and founder of Gnars. This recording was the first time these two have met each other “in person” for a conversation. We jam about memetic icons, skateboarding, hyperstructures, minting onchain, psychedelic experiences and the future of the internet. Wandering into the philosophical, a few concepts were struck upon: serendipity machines, and ever increasing novelty in the universe as per Terence McKenna.

Accelerating Better Futures with RADAR — Fancy

Fancy is an instigator at RADAR and previous founding team at Protein. RADAR is a decentralised global collective of more than 300 researchers, early adopters and innovators accelerating better futures. We catch RADAR as they launch Cycle 3 — Our Centaur Future. Producing a foresight report that paints a picture of what lies ahead with artificial intelligence and lays the groundwork for how to bring it to life.

Bringing Japan and the Netherlands together with Midnight夏季Breeze — Dutchtide

Dutchtide is an independent artist, designer and founder based in the Netherlands. Creator of the NFT collection MidnightBreeze, released in 2021. Illustrations inspired by 90s vaporwave and the Japanese word Ma 間 which translates to ‘space’ but can be interpreted many different ways. We talk about the inspirations of Japanese art and culture for his art practice coming from a Dutch style of colour, light, composition and architecture. His earlier days in NFTs including the life altering sale of a Beeple work which funded his own projects and secured a CryptoPunk.