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Beeple in Conversation with Glenn Fuhrman

May 4, 2022


“$69 million? I think it probably means that digital art is here to stay.” — Beeple

Every day for 14 and a half years, the artist Mike Winkelmann (A.K.A. Beeple) created a digital artwork and posted it online. The first 5,000 days of this project, collected together in a non-fungible token, or NFT, were the first purely digital artwork ever sold at Christie’s. On March 11, 2021, Christie’s sold “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” at auction for $69,346,250. The art world, astonished, rushed to process the significance of this sale. What did it mean for the future of art? What were NFTs and how did they work? Were they to be derided, or celebrated? Now, a year later, NFTs have shifted into the mainstream. To assess the significance of this new medium, Beeple joins investor and collector Glenn Fuhrman for a fascinating conversation on how digital tools, NFTs, the blockchain and crypto are influencing the way art is created — and sold.

Beeple

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films …

Beeple

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays and VR / AR work. After he began releasing a set of widely used Creative Commons VJ loops he has worked on concert visuals for Justin Bieber, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, deadmau5 and many more. One of the originators of the current “everyday” movement in 3D graphics, he has been creating a picture everyday from start to finish and posting it online for over ten years without missing a single day.

Glenn Fuhrman

Glenn is the co-Founder of Tru Arrow Partners, an investment partnership formed specifically to partner with business owners and investing families …

Glenn Fuhrman

Glenn is the co-Founder of Tru Arrow Partners, an investment partnership formed specifically to partner with business owners and investing families from around the world. The firm’s investing focus is on private growth technology companies primarily in the global internet, software, consumer, and fintech industries. Prior to launching Tru Arrow, Glenn was the Co-Founder of MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the founder, and CEO of Dell Technologies., and from 1998 thru 2019 served as its Co-Managing Partner.

In 2007, Glenn founded The FLAG Art Foundation in New York as an independent exhibition space open to the public. FLAG co-sponsors the Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize which includes a $200,000 biannual award to an outstanding contemporary artist. In 2013, Glenn and his wife Amanda sponsored the creation of the nation’s largest free Wi-Fi network covering 95 city blocks in Harlem. In 2019, the Fuhrman’s launched the annual FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence which awards extraordinary NYC Public School Teachers cash awards ranging from $500 to $25,000 each Spring.

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