Steve McKeon, investing in art, the birth of Glitch and the future of digital culture
Description
00:35 - Welcome Steve McKeon
02:25 - Navigating the dot-com boom and bust
08:19 - A winding path to tenure
13:20 - Discovering crypto
15:50 - Writing Traditional Asset Tokenisation
19:30 - The birth of Collab+Currency
24:50 - A shift to consumer focus and NFTs
28:30 - Equity vs tokens
33:45 - The Art Blocks [500]
36:15 - Collectibility and end caps
38:05 - Traditional art, sculpture and Jim Dine
45:20 - Donald Judd and Marfa
49:30 - The birth of Glitch
53:45 - An investment thesis based on passion
55:33 - Collecting personally vs fund investment
01:01:20 - The future of the space and growth of digital culture
01:06:21 - Infrastructure companies, user lock-in and network effects
01:11:11 - Verse round table
01:12:25 - SOLOS points
01:27:39 - Terence Broad and (un)stable equilibrium
01:33:13 - Curatorial practice and thoughts on artist guidance
01:42:44 - What is an NFT artist
01:45:25 - Reclaiming the term NFT
01:47:00 - Artist highlights pt 1
01:48:44 - Catching up on fxhash
01:54:00 - Artist highlights pt 2
01:55:35 - Verse rundown
Steve McKeon: https://x.com/sbmckeon
Mark Horowitz: https://www.instagram.com/marchorowitz
Terence Broad: https://x.com/terrybroad
Harm van den Dorpel: https://x.com/harmvddorpel
Jonathan Chomko: https://x.com/jtchomko
benedict: https://x.com/ibenedictfuc12
canek zapata: https://x.com/canekzapata
Rocio Mio: https://x.com/rociomiobosque
United States
