Kevin Ivester of Ivester Contemporary has invited Austin artists Tyler Hobbs and Lisa B Woods, and Matthew Miller of Metaversal, to join him for the fourth edition of the Gutterblood Talk Show coming up Tuesday, October 3.

Due to our intimate capacity and no free-booze hounds policy, this is a private event. Absolutely, bring your friends! But please don't post to social media.

When I first met with my original talk show guests, Kevin, Jamey Poole and Jill Schroeder, my initial probe was how does the Austin art scene tap into all the wealth that's pouring into this town, much of it driven by the tech sector? How do we get a piece of the pie so stakeholders, (people who participate in and care about the Austin art scene) can not only stay here but thrive? It was Kevin who fed back that if we were going to take on all the facets of this issue, we should reach outside of the old-school echo chamber and bring people who use tech as a tool into the room.

That's exactly what he's going to do, with the added suggestion that art and tech are not binary opposites. Fire for charcoal and tools for grinding pigments made the masterpiece of the Lascaux caves possible. Renaissance artists used the pinhole camera. Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, and then there's the Lumière brothers.

Yes, AI and the intervention of tech into every corner of our lives is alittle freaky, especially if it bypasses critical discourse, accountability and equity...which is all the more reason for artists with their subversive and activist tendencies to get in there and at the very least, sniff around. And that's Kevin's point.

Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting evening.

Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist from Austin, Texas who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Tyler develops and programs custom algorithms that are used to generate visual imagery. Often, these strike a balance between the cold, hard structure that computers excel at, and the messy, organic chaos we can observe in the natural world around us.Tyler’s work has been shown internationally and has been collected in more than a dozen countries around the world.

Matthew Miller is currently working as an investment analyst for Metaversal, which is a project dedicated to investing in and educating others about essential trends in art, collectibles, and the metaverse. Perhaps better known by his Twitter persona, balon.eth, Matt started his career in real estate and finance, but always had a passion and enthusiasm for art. Discovering digital art, and generative art, in particular, made him realize he wanted to collect more seriously and work in the sector full-time. Matthew has a background in photography and considers himself a collector of many types of artwork.

Lisa B. Woods an Austin based artist and interaction designer with more than eight years experience deploying new technologies in beautiful ways for social good. Specializing in interactive digital art, projection mapping, and sculpture. Lisa has served as a public speaker and lecturer on topics ranging from diversity in tech and creative computation to art & the experience economy. She has worked as a UX Designer, an Adjunct Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, she has founded Space Lab Meetup, she is a UNESCO Media Arts Committee Member, and is currently launching a studio complex in East Austin serving female artists at the intersection of art, science, tech, and social practice.

https://ivestercontemporary.com
https://tylerxhobbs.com
https://www.metaversal.gg
https://lisabwoods.com
https://gutterbloodonthewall.com/

Special Thanks

Lorraine Atherton
Charles Heppner
Kevin Ivester
Emily Lee
Ted Muckleroy
Philip Niemeyer
Don Osborne
Christos Pathiakis
Jamey Poole
Rita Marie Ross
Jill Schroeder
Laura Wehrman
Ann Williams