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Oscar is a visual artist, cybernetician, and writer who lives between The Netherlands and Ecuador. His work emerges from the notion of ‘Antimundo’ which he defines as “a way of identifying and generating realities that do not fit in this world”.
We talked about blockchain oracles, mycorrhizal networks, the future of artificial intelligence, the social role of the artist and the role of the economy in the proliferation of new ideas.
Show Notes
About Treelema, Oscar’s NFT project. https://antimundo.org/cryptical
Chainlink. One of the most prominent blockchain oracles. https://chain.link/
Neurobiology and plant cognition, two fields of research that are flourishing thanks to big data and machine learning. https://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/The-phylosophy-of-plant-neurobiology.pdf
Mycorrhizal network. How fungi communicates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network
Foucault on categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_of_Things
Solaris (artwork) https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/program/solaris
Web 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
Cybersyn, a pre-Internet project implemented in the year 1970 in Chile for the management of the national economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
Article written by Oscar about Gabriel Boric and Blockchain https://antimundo.org/reflex-espanol
Russian Cosmism https://www.e-flux.com/books/167634/russian-cosmism/
GPT-3 or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, a language model developed by Open AI that uses machine learning to process human language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
Sindicato, Art Project in Dominican Republic that gathers independent artists. https://www.sindicato.do/
Tezos Blockchain https://tezos.com/nftgallery/
Algorand Blockchain https://www.algorand.com/nft/
Kusama Blockchain https://polkaworld.medium.com/kusama-art-boom-nft-blockchain-games-metaverse-and-crypto-art-92bb10609ec6
Artpool, an interesting model of art distribution that combines gallery and crowdfunding. Built on Polkadot. https://www.artpool.xyz/
Unlike most blockchains, the Cardano Blockchain allows to store extensive amounts of metadata in one NFT. https://www.cardanocube.io/collections/nft
Iota Blockchain uses light-weight version of the proof of work (PoW) consensus mechanism. https://blog.iota.org/iota-the-most-accessible-dlt-network-for-nfts/
About Proof of Work and Proof of Stake https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consensus-mechanism-cryptocurrency.asp
Solana Blockchain https://solana.com/developers/nfts
