🧲✨The Nexialist #0058Weird Stuff | Brazilian Modernism and NFTs | Crypto as Ritual and Religion | History and Surprises | 3 Steps to The Future | Meta Trending Trends | Old vs New Music | BillionsWelcome to this weird corner where links might not always make sense, The Nexialist Thank you everyone for all the love sent after last week’s Valentine’s edition. It was my record getting ♥️ around here. Keep them coming, please! Also, I had a good week, since I landed two very nice projects to work on #WEEERK! This means I’ll be quite busy the next few weeks, meaning that the next Nexialists might come a bit short, but still made with love and brain juice. Also, add your sparks to the discussion. A Brainspark Thread is where you can share connections your brain made while reading or links that made new neural connections in your week: 👽Weird StuffFor some reason, this quote from Ezra Croft really stayed with me, because I agree with it so much. 🖼Week of 22 and NFTsOne hundred years ago, happened in São Paulo The Modern Art Week. “Historically, the Week marked the start of Brazilian Modernism; though a number of individual Brazilian artists were doing modernist work before the week, it coalesced and defined the movement and introduced it to Brazilian society at large.” Of course, looking back we see how it was a white, male-dominated, and São Paulo-focused event, nonetheless, it would change the course of Brazilian art history. Lidia Zuin wrote a great thought piece, comparing that movement to the emergence of NFTs: “While modernist artists wanted to disrupt conservatism and the traditional aesthetic of art, NFTs are causing a new change in the art industry.” It’s worth the read.
Read: A century after the Brazilian Modern Art Week, NFTs target the future of the art market - Lidia Zuin 📿Crypto as Ritual and ReligionI found this text on Monika Bielskyte’s LinkedIn and of course, I had to click. Evgeny Morozov interviews Inês Faria on Crypto as Ritual and Religion. “Inês Faria is a researcher at the CSG-SOCIUS/ISEG, University of Lisbon. Since 2016 she has been developing research about the uses of blockchain technology as part of the project Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction. Below, one of the many parallels she finds:
Read: Inês Faria on Crypto as Ritual and Religion 🎁History and Surprises
Another citation Brené Brown made in her podcast Unlocking Us that stayed with me. 📈Three Steps to The FutureEvery year, Benedict Evans launches a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. This year he focuses on Web3 and the Metaverse, with quite a critical view, in 94 slides quite easy to understand. He also takes a trip down the past, which is always good to do when imagining the future.
🔭Meta Trending TrendsI always love to see Matt Klein’s Meta Trending Trends, where he “synthesizes 500+ trends from 40+ reports, ranking the 14 most frequently reported cultural trends for 2022.” This year, he mentions how his excitement about doing is waning and shows how this exercise should be just the start, for us to look further into the weird and underlooked trends.
[Thank you Iolanda for sending it in the Brainspark Thread!] 🎵Old vs New MusicThis information came to me as a surprise from Ted Gioia’s Newsletter.
I think it explains a lot about how artists are redoing old songs, reusing samples. The same goes for movies, I guess. Also, the secondhand clothing market is set to be twice the size of fast fashion by 2030. Seems like there’s something there. Read: Ted Gioia Newsletter, The Honest Broker 🍇BillionsTalking about old music and samples and having weird art at home… I think Caroline Polachek is one of the few artists that are able to make new music with novel (and weird) sounds. Read: Caroline Polachek contemplates the overabundance of the world on “Billions” | Beats Per Minute 👄How LongJust to finish today’s Nexialist a bit musically, another Swedish artist for you. Any links you would like to share after reading (or even non-related links?) Please, share below: ❤️If anything made your brain tingle, click like and don't hesitate to share it with the world. It helps The Nexialist to reach more curious minds. See you next week!🦦🫀If you enjoyed this newsletter, please share it with your friends. If someone amazing sent it to you, tell them you love them, and you can subscribe at thenexialist.substack.com. If you want to know what a Nexialist is, click here. 🤙Call me…If you like what you see here and your project, brand or business needs some ideas or inspiration from outside your bubble, maybe you need a Nexialist to help you out 🙋🏻♂️ I can participate in brainstorms and workshops, guide inspiration sessions, or provide you with creative research. You can always send me an e-mail to figure something out together. If you liked this post from The Nexialist, why not share it? |
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