Music, Comedy and NFTs With Deadmau5 and Hannibal Buress

Two entertainers take a critical – and comedic – look at a future filled with entertainment NFTs.

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The integration of non-fungible tokens (NFT), blockchain technology and the metaverse has spawned incredible opportunities for creators to take back the power of their art. “This is the baby steps towards that liberation of a creator where they’re going to have more control, but at a cost,” Deadmau5 says.

What is that cost? Though the opportunities of crypto for creators are great, where is the technology lacking?

In this episode of “NFT All-Stars” hosts Artnome and Marguerite deCourcelle are joined by expert panelists Jenny Guo and BT to interview two entertainers looking to integrate crypto into their art.

First, Hannibal Buress provides a comedian’s perspective on the developing NFT subculture. Deadmau5 joins next to analyze how NFTs might change the relationship between musicians and fans. Both guests underscore the need for better education and onramp tools for crypto, a necessary element before mass adoption can occur.

Watch the full episode here.

HOSTS

Jason Bailey (Artnome)

Jason Bailey is the CEO and co-founder of ClubNFT and is well known for his popular art and tech blog Artnome.com. Having predicted the current NFT art explosion back in 2017, he was an early NFT collector and proponent of the CryptoArt movement. As the first collector on SuperRare, Jason introduced the popular marketplace to its very first artists and collaborated with the site to introduce NFTs to the traditional art world. Most recently, he founded the GreenNFTs initiative to help explore and promote eco-friendly NFT practices. Jason has written on art and technology for Art in America and the Harvard Data Science Review and has lectured at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and top universities and institutions around the world. Prior to ClubNFT, he spent two decades in senior leadership positions at tech startups before he started his own successful tech marketing and business consulting practice in 2019.

Jenny Guo

Jenny Guo is an award-winning creative producer, XR arts patron and tech entrepreneur. She has been named on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018 and to AACYF 30 under 30 list in 2020. She was also recognized as the top 10 Asian Americans Entrepreneurs in 2021.

Backed by HTC , Binance Lab and other big funds, her company Highstreet is building a commerce-centered MMORPG ( massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game) using VR and blockchain technology.

Marguerite deCourcelle

Marguerite deCourcelle (better known as coin_artist) is a technologist, game designer and blockchain enthusiast. She is the CEO of Blockade Games, a company that designs puzzles and games built on blockchain technology. Her contributions to cryptocurrency puzzles and art have been featured in MIT techreview, BBC and NPR.

BT is a classically trained symphonic composer, musician, arranger, orchestrator and NFT artisan. His work includes Oscar-winning films and critically acclaimed series. He is credited as a pioneer of the Trance and IDM genres.

He has created a slew of widely adopted plug-ins, used in everything from “Star Wars” and “Stranger Things” to No. 1 country music records.

BT has written, produced for Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Gabriel, Howard Jones, Tiesto, Depeche Mode, Armin Van Buuren, Sting, NSYNC, Blake Lewis, The Roots, Madonna, Britney Spears and more.