In this episode Vivian and Noah purchase David Young’s piece titled Winter Woods, a work produced using a GAN, leading to a larger discussion around art created using AI. Artist, researcher, and podcaster Mat Dryhurst helps explain how AI works, as well as how DALLE-2 , a new AI system from OpenAI is different from other GANs. We also hear from artist Super Metal Bosch, one of the artists behind the GAN art project Super Metal Mons. Vivian goes on to compare AI to photography and the art of being a clown, which goes over Noah’s head. Artist Carlos Sanchez ...

Since their previous episode about AI (episode 2), the conversation around AI has exploded and gone viral. Dall-e mini memes proliferated everywhere utilizing Dall-E mini now known as Craiyon, a text prompt AI image generator. An artist utilizing AI won first place in an art context, and the New York Times wrote about it. With that has also come skepticism, criticism, and fear regarding AI. William Wiebe is an artist and researcher whose work deals with machine perception, and created a project called SMPLverse which utilizes a synthetic data set created by Microsoft to train face tracking algorithms to translate facial ...

In this episode, Noah and Vivian discuss their thoughts and feelings about web3 lingo. GM. WAGMI. Diamond Hands. Rekt. So many words, so little time, so many feelings. Noah recalls work from photographer Aaron Ferguson, who had a collection of photographs of GM spray painted around his city. Aaron discusses his thoughts behind the photographs, his general feelings about web3 lingo, toxic positivity, NFT community, and favorite web3 term. A few more voicemails come into the hotline, with the callers discussing terms they do not like, including GM, GN, Ser, and LFG. This leads to a rapid fire discussion with ...

Noah and Vivian discuss editions within the NFT space and beyond. They collect from artist Chris Piascik and speak to Zora engineer Iain Nash. They hear from artist Sam King about his on chain editioned photo project ICE64. During Collection Time™, Noah and Vivian collect a Simpsons™ inspired piece titled Sideshow that is an edition of 15 from Connecticut based artist Chris Piascik, who is inspired by pop culture and punk rock music. Iain Nash, an engineer at Zora who works on API and platform engineering projects (including Zora’s edition NFT tool) to discuss NFT editions from a technical perspective. The episode is interrupted ...

After a short summer break, Noah and Vivian return with a new episode of JPEG2000 discussing glitch art projects God Observer by Godmin and Myfi by Aimee Rubensteen AKA Cookie Tree and Dr. Josh Eisenberg AKA Dr. Slurp. After discussing God Observer in Episode 5, Vivian and Noah have Godmin on this episode to discuss her work more in depth. The piece JPEG2000 collected is titled ∧⨆∃⨏⊷⋭⋌∉≃⋀≰⨑⨗◯ #1000356 which is part of the God Observer collection, which is a part of the larger Heaven Computer art project. God Observer posits “if we could look into an telescope, what if we could ...

In a podcast crossover episode, Noah and Vivian are guests on the Digitally Rare podcast, and speak with host Jonathan Mann. There is an intro from Noah and Vivian, and the episode leads into the conversation Noah and Vivian had with Jonathan. Noah and Vivian discuss ancient JPEG2000 lore, including how the podcast came to be, how JPEG2000 got its name, and their thoughts regarding NFTs and web3. They also discuss Noah’s project Chicken.Photos, which everybody continues to be obsessed with.

In this episode Noah and Vivian discuss PFP projects (PFP stands for Profile Picture). What are PFP projects? Is this what everybody thinks about when they think about NFTs? Is this art? Why do people buy PFPs? What does it all mean? Maybe we answer some of these questions. Noah and Vivian describe their own current PFPs. Vivian’s pfp is called Sprout Ride from the project Blitmap. Noah’s pfp is a self portrait photobooth strip from artist Noah Kalina (wow!) Noah, Vivian, and the JPEG2000 wallet all collect pieces from artist Robert Gallardo’s No PFP Project, a collection of 1,000 hand made ...

In this episode hobbyist photographer Vivian Fu and professional photographer Noah Kalina discuss photography, and collect four photographs from four different artists. Step Sister from the series But That’s So Far Away by Austin based artist Alyssa Kazew whose work is influenced by meme culture and iconic imagery. Source: Behold The Ocean Collectibles #105 by Zurich based Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, whose project Behold The Ocean funds an exploration to conduct oceanic scientific research in Cape Horn. The Last Stand #8 by Bath based artist Marc Wilson, who documents physical remnants of WWII in his project The Last Stand. Still-Life with Fruit and Ceramics ...

In this episode, Noah and Vivian discuss privacy in the world of NFTs and web3, a space that is inherently transparent. Is it uncomfortable to be publicly yourself online all the time? What if you could escape yourself? How do artists create work that speaks to privacy or invert the transparency of the blockchain? They collect a piece from a project called Everything I Own by anonymous artist Stardrop, as well as a piece from blind auction project Mars Maiers. Stardrop photographs all 1026 items that they own (including love letters, vaccination card, tax returns, drivers license), and the project is intended ...

In this episode, Noah and Vivian answer questions they received on the JPEG2000 hotline voicemail. The first call Noah and Vivian respond to comes from Jonathan Mann, the song a day man and Digitally Rare podcast host, who calls to share his thoughts about how language that begins in cryptocurrency influences the language of NFT art. Kristen Cabrera, Web Developer extraordinaire at Foundation calls in to ask about why it is common to deploy contracts from burner wallets. Noah and Vivian do not know they answer, and have Malone, developer at Context.app, explain the answer. The conversation is interrupted by a call ...

In this episode Noah and Vivian collect work from artist Godmin’s project God Observer, which makes use of astronomical data and video compression algorithms. They also collect a piece from photographer Zak Krevitt’s generative photography project titled Shredders. Noah and Vivian collect a piece by Godmin (incorrectly referred to as Heaven Computer in this episode, which is the name of another one of the artist’s projects) from her new project called God Observer. Using the JPEG2000 wallet, Noah and Vivian mint a piece titled ∧⨆∃⨏⊷⋭⋌∉≃⋀≰⨑⨗◯ #1000356. As usual, the conversation turns once again to photography, and it’s place within the NFT world. Noah ...

Noah and Vivian discuss value. How is value ascribed? What are different types of value? Monetary value? Cultural value? Artists can’t pay the bills with exposure, but is there value to exposure? How is value created? Is this all artificial? Do Noah and Vivian answer any of these questions?