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RAW ReviewAuthor: RAW DAO
In this podcast series, Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle interview the collectors, artists, and community members of RAW DAO. Language: en Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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5 - Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (Ava Silvery): the promises and shortcomings of web3
Episode 5
Friday, 2 September, 2022
In this final episode of the RAW Review, Matthew and Brileigh are joined by Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, also know as Ava Silvery. Akosua is an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist currently based in Zürich, Switzerland. Works from her project Behold The Ocean have been collected by RAW DAO and she is also a member of CyberbaatDAO. We cover a lot of ground in this episode: our reflections on the arts education system and what it didn’t prepare us for, her father’s background as a software engineer and how it led her to blockchain technology, the promises and shortcomings of web3 and NFTs as a model for sustainably funding artists… and even horse girls. Topics Discussed: Düsseldorf Academy The pitfalls of art school Horse Girls and Heartland Behold the Ocean RAW DAO The promise of web3 Blindness as a disability The spectrum of decentralization in DAOs New models for funding artists CyberbaatDAO MirrorDAO Chapters: 00:01:32 Ava discovering photography 00:04:00 Ava’s experience studying art in Germany 00:05:59 Reflecting on the experience of formal arts education 00:07:00 The disconnect between artists and profs + making ends meet after graduation 00:12:05 Living in Switzerland and Horse Girls 00:16:40 Behold the Ocean 00:19:27 The success of typologies in NFT photography 00:22:25 Expectations for selling out collections in the space and 00:23:45 Ava’s dad telling her about web3 before she knew what web2 was 00:27:09 Being open to new forms of technology, blindness & parallels between Ava & Brileigh 00:33:02 Crowdfunding Behold the Ocean vs relying on grants 00:39:20 Is web3 fulfilling its promise? 00:45:14 What is CyberbaatDAO 00:48:24 Traditional organization models vs DAOs 00:53:03 DAO is a sexy word and the spectrum of decentralization 00:57:56 DAOs raising the bar for what people working in the arts should be compensated for vs traditonal workplace models 01:00:00 Universal basic income 01:03:02 What are we trying to achieve with NFT photography 01:04:00 Projects in the pipeline for Ava Follow Akosua on Twitter: @AvaSilvery Behold the Ocean website: beholdtheocean.com RAW DAO website: www.rawdao.xyz Follow RAW on Twitter: @therawdao Join RAW DAO Discord: discord.gg/rawdao Follow Matthew on Twitter @0xmatthewb Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle Engineering: Matthew Brooks Music: Sam Cronenberg Cover art: Sam Cronenberg
