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Emily Nicoll is a digital artist and founder of the record label Aquaregia Records, which skillfully blends psychedelic electronic music with harmonious visual worlds. Her work combines analog and digital tools, often exploring delicate beauty within rigorous structures.
Whether designing generative vinyl record covers or utilizing artificial intelligence and photography techniques, she is dedicated to creating immersive experiences shaped by sound and emotion.
This interview took place in the lobby of the Saint George Hotel during the Art Blocks Marfa weekend, where Emily Nicoll shared insights into how music inspires her artistic practice, the significance of her debut as an Art Blocks artist, and how she continues to explore the balance between nature and technology.

DADABOTS is a musical duo whose creations blend art, code, and machine learning. They are known for merging underground music genres such as death metal, drum and bass, and hardcore punk with neural synthesis, developing tools that generate live music in real time, instantly creating new musical genres and redefining the meaning of performance.
Their work spans viral live streams, academic research, and global performances, all rooted in their belief that human-machine collaboration is key to advancing creativity.
This interview was conducted at Hotel Saint George Hall during the Art Blocks Marfa Weekend. DADABOTS shared how generative tools are reshaping music, why they embrace lo-fi sounds and unpredictability, and what continually brings them back to the Art Blocks community.

January 5, the originally scheduled NFT Paris Developer Conference, set for February, was suddenly canceled. Once lively with all-night parties along the Seine River, now only a cold official tweet remains: 'The market crash hit us hard; even with aggressive cost-cutting measures, we can't sustain ourselves.'
Five years ago, digital artist Beeple's work (Everydays: The First 5000 Days) sold for a record-breaking $69.3 million at Christie's auction house. Following that, from CryptoPunks selling for tens of millions of dollars to countless digital collectibles backed by major institutions, it was the golden age of NFTs.

Bryan Brinkman is a multimedia artist whose work spans animation, illustration, generative 3D, and more. He has served as a producer on television shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show, bringing extensive television experience and a deep understanding of storytelling and audience engagement into the realm of digital art.
His recurring imagery and vibrant visual language interpret the ever-evolving creative landscape, while projects like BrinkWorks explore new models for sustaining artistic freedom and community.
The interview took place in the lobby of the Hotel Saint George during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Bryan Brinkman reflected on the challenges of creative sustainability and digital permanence, as well as the significance of his first involvement with the Marfa community.

Welcome to the OpenSea newsletter—let's recap the most important NFT and web3 news from this week.
Adam Weitsman acquired 227 Meebits through a single brokerage transaction
According to an article published on the X platform on December 31, New York entrepreneur and NFT collector Adam Weitsman completed a transaction through the NFT brokerage platform Fountain, acquiring 227 Meebits NFTs in one go.
Weitsman thanked NFT brokerage firm Fountain for assisting with the ownership transfer, a company that helps buyers and sellers complete large or complex transactions. He also expressed gratitude to several NFT collectors and brokers who answered his questions throughout the process, stating that the transfer was completed earlier this Wednesday.

Ben Kovach is a generative artist living in Williston, Vermont. His work explores the space between structured systems and spontaneous outcomes, deeply influenced by the traditions of minimalism and maximalism. He combines mathematical structures with visual intuition, utilizing the Haskell programming language to construct generative systems that ultimately evolve into complex and often large-scale artworks.
This interview took place in the lobby of the St. George Hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Ben Kovach shared how code, color, and community shape his creative process, as well as why Marfa remains a meaningful place for exchange and inspiration.

For more than a decade, Save the Children has been exploring how to leverage emerging technologies to strengthen its mission of helping families in crisis. This exploration began in 2013 with early attempts to accept Bitcoin donations and has now evolved into a broader effort to understand how blockchain can enhance the speed, transparency, and impact of humanitarian aid.
The key figure in this work is Antonia Roupell, who has years of experience dealing with global emergencies and firmly believes that peer-to-peer technology can help communities facing the greatest barriers access broader financial services.