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We\u2019re here. After five days jam-packed with insider Web3 knowledge and the best of what the NFT art community offers, The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis<\/a> is entering its final day of planned programming<\/a>. Together with Mana Common and MoonPay, nft now has labored to deliver an experience that worked to provide as much value to its attendees over its five-day run. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t fret. There\u2019s still lots to do for those among the Web3 faithful who made the pilgrimage to Miami for Art Basel Miami 2022.<\/p>\n The Gateway 2022\u2019s last day of programming includes a talk led by Betty of Deadfellaz on defending artists in the space; a panel featuring Sasha Stiles and Ana Mar\u00eda Caballero regarding the emerging literary NFT space; an open forum on the state of Web3 marketing featuring Swan Sit, Avery Akkineni, Amanda Cassatt, and Jennifer Styles; a deeper look on the future of luxury in Web3 led by Gmoney and Chris Coleman; and an open conversation featuring some of the biggest creators in the NFT space to close things off. Leading the Gateway 2022\u2019s final panel will be Roger Dickerman, Sam Spratt, Blake Kathryn, and Raf Grassetti.<\/p>\n For a quick recap on how Friday went down in Miami Art Week, Ethereum<\/a> co-founder Joseph Lubin<\/a> participated in a fireside chat on the broad future of NFTs and the far-reaching consequences of FTX\u2019s collapse with nft now co-founder Matt Medved as part of The Gateway\u2019s Friday programming. Various community leaders such as OneOf\u2019s Lin Dai, Shira Lazar, BLOND:ISH also took the stage in a subsequent panel speaking on the depth of community currently present in Web3.<\/p>\n In a separate panel, nft now co-founders Matt Medved and Alejandro Navia also engaged in an open conversation with former Time<\/em> president Keith Grossman on the specific allure of Web3<\/a> for budding and established media companies alike.<\/p>\n So, with yesterday firmly in the rearview mirror, what\u2019s dominating Saturday\u2019s Miami Art Week headlines?<\/p>\n When people think about NFTs, they typically think of PFP pictures. However, NFTs can be used to store (and provide proof of ownership for) any physical or digital item. In a panel discussion at The Gateway<\/a>, Sasha Stiles and Ana Mar\u00eda Caballero, Co-founders of theVERSEverse<\/a>, joined moderator Matt Medved to do away with this myth and discuss the ways in which NFTS can be used by poets and literary artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n Throughout the conversation, Stiles and Caballero highlighted the ways in which blockchain technologies are leading to a paradigm shift by helping creators reconsider how their poetry can be experienced. And by changing the way that these pieces are experienced, the duo said that blockchain and NFTs ultimately give new dimensions and meanings to the art.<\/p>\n To highlight how this works, Stiles and Caballero discussed their efforts at theVERSEverse.\u00a0<\/p>\n Through the company, Stiles and Caballero said that they onboard poets to Web3 by pairing their works with crypto-native artists to create unique pieces of poetic art and utilize a number of different mediums and art forms. They also work to work to elevate text-based artists who are already active in the NFT space by, for example, pairing a poem with audio of the artist reading the piece. Stiles and Caballero said that this work moves a poem beyond the page and brings it to life in new ways, which makes it appeal to wider audiences \u2014 audiences who may be interested in collecting and owning it.\u00a0<\/p>\n In this respect, Stiles noted that theVERSEverse (and blockchain in general) empowers poets both creatively and economically. It \u201cbrings poetry out of the pages of the New Yorker, <\/em>where only a handful of people are ever going to read it, and allows people to put it on their phones and carry it around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Piggy-backing off these statements, Caballero noted that NFTs are enabling many poets to support themselves financially for the first time in their lives. \u201cA book sells for $14, if at all, and it can represent years and years of work,\u201d she lamented, but she was quick to note that this is changing in Web3. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing here is saying that poetry has value.\u201d<\/p>\n A group show spotlighting 23 generative artists identifying as female will also feature talks on the artists\u2019 unique perspectives on and about NFT spaces and generative art on Saturday, at Miami Art Week 2022. Called Femgen<\/a>, it\u2019s the latest in cultural developments about the directions for Web3 expression. With OpenAI\u2019s Chatbot<\/a> going live for public testing recently, it\u2019s clear that AI will continue to be of special emphasis in new and emerging spaces, playing a crucial role in equal representation and digital identity.<\/p>\n Headlining the show\u2019s scheduled set of panels include appearances from Art Blocks founder Snowfro, IX Shells, Sasha Stiles, Sofia Crespo, and many more, moving forward from noon to 7:00 p.m. ET. These listed artists, aside from Snowfro, will also lead the group show with their distinctive takes on generative art.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nLiterature comes to life with Web3<\/strong><\/h2>\n
A celebration of the women in generative NFT art kicks off<\/strong><\/h2>\n