Christine Yahya, a.k.a Pink Bits

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. In our last episode for the year, we are joined by Christine Yahya a.k.a. Pink Bits, an illustrator inspired by and celebrating people and bodies in all their glory, illustrating the bits and shapes we are told and taught to hide. We met Christine through working with her on our Waterfront Whale Tales project earlier this year, and we fell in love with her eloquence and calming demeanour, and of course, her fun, quirky art.In this episode, we chat about Christine’s experience as an illustrator in Australia, why she doesn’t think of herself as an ‘artist’ and the role of social media in the arts today.

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Jennifer Cook, Place-Making Extraordinaire

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. This episode, we are joined by Jennifer Cook, who wears so many hats in the property industry – she is the Director of Australia’s first placemaking consultancy Village Well, a Non Executive Director at Centuria Capital and sits on the advisory board of proptech and sharing economy startup Vennu. How impressive!Jennifer works with major Australian businesses to create award-winning experiences and high performing places that customers love. Her experience spans across consumer and B2B markets, asset management, retail, major events and festivals, arts and culture, professional services and tourism. In this episode, we chat about Jennifer’s thoughts on arts and culture being lacking in cities, and her desire to see more adventurous spaces and affordable housing.

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Ash Nicholson from CBRE

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet.This episode, we are joined by the Commercial Director of Marketing and Communications at CBRE, Ash Nicholson.We’re so excited to share Ash’s creative insight with you! In this episode, we chat about to Ash about the incorporation of arts and culture into property organisations!

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Liza Bahamondes from Art & About

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. This episode, we are joined by Liza Bahamondes, Program Manager for Art and About, a program run by the City of Sydney.Art and About is like a festival of creative ideas where the City of Sydney is the canvas – every year, the City seeks expressions of interest to create new Art & About works. The opportunity is open to anyone with a big idea that will create a moment of surprise and delight in the urban space. In this episode, we chat about to Liza about the arts and culture scene in Sydney, and reminisce about the good old days where Oxford Street once buzzed with animation, sound and culture.

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Luke Macfarlane, Co-Founder of Vikra Capital

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. This episode, we are joined by Luke McFarlane, co-founder of Vikara Capital.Along with his business partner Mark, Vikara combines over thirty five years experience in global capital markets. The company describes itself as a web3 disruption fund that hedges global equity portfolios against decentralisation.Luke is also creating immersive creative experiences with artists such as Frida Kahlo on ezel.life. You will be able to virtually walk around Frida’s red house and see Diego and Frida interacting amongst her paintings and objects, and animals! In this episode, we chat about disrupting with web3, the impact of decentralisation and what it really means to decentralise and move from web2 to web3.

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Emilya is Back from the USA..and is Full of Tips

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. This episode, we are joined by our Founding Director, Emilya Colliver.Emilya just arrived back in Australia a few days ago. She’s been attending major NFT and Web3 events in the US representing Sugar Glider Digital. Emilya started in Austin, Texas at DCentral and Consensus and finished up in New York for NFT NYC! Here in Australia we are a little removed from the action of web3 innovation but conferences and events like this have the power to pull all the players to one place. Emilya attended DCentral, Consensus and NFT.NYC representing Blockchain Australia and Brinc. She’s back in Australia now to share her findings with us!

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Claudio Lisco from ConsenSys

Welcome to Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. This episode, we are joined by Claudio Lisco, Strategy and Product Director at Consensys Innovation Lab. Consensys is the leading Ethereum blockchain software company offering product suites to help businesses build next-generation applications and infrastructure for the digital economy of tomorrow. Claudio is a recognised leading innovator making it onto the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2017, we have him on the podcast today to talk about Blockchain technology and Decentralised Finance and how they’re transforming businesses all over the world.In this episode, we chat about MetaMask, Claudio’s early ventures into the web3 space and how he sees the future of the blockchain intersecting with art.

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Blak Douglas Winnder of 2022 Archibald Art Prize

Kori Todd from Goodman

Welcome to the next episode of Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. Today we are joined by Kori Todd, Head of Design at Goodman Group. Goodman Group is a leader in the industrial development sector. Kori’s role sees her overseeing the design of all development projects at Goodman from inception through to delivery – a huge job, and we couldn’t think of anyone more perfect for it. In today’s episode we chat about the intersections of art and culture with industrial design, and Kori imagines her dream vision for the city of Sydney.

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Beau Neilson from Phoenix Central Park

Welcome to the next episode of Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. Today we are joined by Beau Neilson, Director of Phoenix Cultural Projects, Central Park. Beau is a great advocate of the arts and a mother of two who has launched a fabulous live performance creative space. In this episode, we chat about the intersection of arts and culture with social impact.

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James McGrath Fine Art Painter and Digital Artist

Welcome to the next episode of Art Glider, where the Art World and Metaverse meet. In today’s episode we chat to artist James McGrath. James McGrath is one of Sugar Gliders Digital artists. He is an architect, artist and digital creator. He is know for his exceedingly diverse talents as both a fine art painter and a digital artist.

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Sugar Glider Digital – NFTs, Web3, and the Metaverse from an Art Curators Perspective

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A Deep Dive into Art Consultancy

Anything Arts and Culture is Art Pharmacy Emily Colliver is the director of Art Pharmacy. It’s a full-service art and culture agency. They are curators, placemakers, and art consultants.

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Welcome to Art Glider

Welcome to Art Glider the first episode in a new series of podcasts joining your favourite art curators as we chat with all kinds of people in the art space. Art Glider is going to be talking about art from the perspective of industry professionals and introduce you to some thought leaders, interviewing them, sharing knowledge, and educating us all on the Arts and Culture sector.

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