saatchi

Edward Saatchi is the founder of Fable Studio which is bringing AR and VR characters to life for the metaverse. Fable is creating both characters and a world where you can interact with them, but more interestingly, where these virtual beings can learn and evolve.

Prior to Fable Studio, Saatchi was the founder of the Emmy Award-winning VR movie studio Oculus Story Studio. Earlier, he was the founder of NationalField which provided social media technology for the Obama for America organization and presidential campaigns. Saatchi has degrees from Sorbonne and Oxford.

Rebecca Wilson is Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art. She was formerly a Director at the Saatchi Gallery, London, where she was instrumental in the launch of the gallery's online presence. In 2007 she created New Sensations, a prize for art students which identifies and supports the most exciting emerging artists in the UK. Prior to joining the Saatchi Gallery, Rebecca worked for 14 years in book and art magazine publishing: she was editor of ArtReview, and before that deputy editor of Modern Painters. She has nearly 2 decades of experience working with emerging artists.

I interviewed Christian San Jose, the managing director of Make Technology, a UX and technology subsidiary of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi. Before that he was Head of Digital of MullenLowe Group Philippines and the Head of UX and Design at Jump Digital. At 21 he bootstrapped his first digital startup, Create.ph,  and worked for clients like Usher, Kanye West, Kobe Bryant, Usain Bolt, James Harden, Dwyane Wade, and Big Sean. We talked about career growth, creating and scaling a design studio, client servicing, and more.

Robert is one of the most revered authorities on art & tech. Verisart is a company that uses blockchain technology to certify and verify artworks online, allowing buyers to access the provenance of a piece and artists to ensure the security of their work.

Ethan talks to Robert about

• how Verisart uses the bitcoin blockchain to tell the history of a work and where it’s been
• why blockchain is the best way to ensure an artwork’s authenticity
• And how he sees the role of technology in shaping the future of the art market

About Verisart

Verisart employs decentralized technologies to help artists certify, document, and enliven their artworks in a vibrant online community of collectors, galleries and dealers.

Find out more at verisart.com or follow them on twitter @verisart

About Robert Norton

Robert Norton has spent 20 years working in ecommerce, business development and Internet startups. I enjoy building business from the ground, finding new opportunities and creating new consumer experiences. He was the CEO and Founder of Saatchi Art and Sedition prior to starting Verisart.  Before that he was at King.com

Follow Robert on Twitter @verisart

- About Vango -  

Vango Studio makes the entrepreneurial side of being an artist easy and efficient, saving artists an average of 4 hours per week. In addition to powering artists with an award winning marketplace, we offer artists the ability to create their own website with little to no maintenance, distribute work across platforms, and access detailed insights about their collectors and what is selling across platforms.

Follow Vango on Instagram @vango and @art, on Twitter @vangoart and visit www.vangoart.co

Helena Hötzl, Swedish painter and illustrator, spent much of her childhood in pain, enduring many surgeries, using her dreams and art to satiate a hunger for escape. London’s Saatchi Gallery helped her art go international with her first exhibition in Budapest in 2008. Her career focus is on empowering girls and women. Even if it’s tough, and life is really bad, it always changes in some way, if you really want to follow your dreams. Have faith, believe in yourself, even though it's a battle every day. I've learned that every time I thought I had failed, something better came.

A short one on deck today peeps as G Money is ever popular and needed to skedaddle early. We still managed to pack quite a bit in though…

Show dedications – Stacey Von Wolf and The Boxed Whine Lost Episode

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Evil wishes upon each other

What’s going on in Brazil

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‘Breatharianism’ a.k.a. ‘Evolutionary failure’

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Selma Blair leaves Anger Management and generally no fucks given

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Gerard Butler? More like Gerard BUTTler!

Dublin is NOT a fan of Rhianna (but who is?)

Charles Saatchi; Douchebag and utter piece of shit

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Anchorman 2 trailer

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Bryan Singer to possibly write an X Men original graphic novel

Bruce Timm could possibly be ‘defecting’ to Marvel

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