Last month, the prima donna of System of a Down, Serj Tankian, hosted an art exhibit with the non-fungible token (NFT) platform and market Curio NFT. The physical and virtual-melded art program was called “Not for Touching” and today Tankian informed Bitcoin.com News that he thinks NFT innovation has actually opened brand-new doors for his creative expression.

Today Bitcoin.com News talked with System of a Down’s (SoaD) lead singer, Serj Tankian, about non-fungible token (NFT) tech and how it has actually offered him the capability to reveal his art in a brand-new method. In December, Tankian and Curio NFT hosted an art exhibit including the artist’s NFT art work called “Not for Touching.”

Tankian has actually been an artist for many years, however Nfts has actually offered the SoaD vocalist a brand-new method “to impact numerous senses concurrently” and he worried that he’s constantly thinking about having “a more powerful effect creatively.” The following is a thorough conversation with SoaD’s Serj Tankian that Bitcoin.com News tape-recorded on January 5.

Bitcoin.com News (BCN): You’ve just recently entered the world of NFTs. Can you inform our readers how you found NFT innovation?

Serj Tankian: I found it by checking out the news. Seeing how various artists were launching NFTs. We were renovating your home and I had a great deal of reading time, and I resembled ‘wow this is actually intriguing.’ Considering that I’ve been doing art for a variety of years, musically linked art, I believed ‘wow this might be a brand-new platform for what I am doing.’ So that’s where the connection of the concept entered into play.

BCN: Just recently, you hosted an art program called “Not for Touching” with Curio NFT. Can you inform our readers about this occasion and how it went?

Serj Tankian: The occasion went actually well, they established a virtual gallery which was actually intriguing for me. To be able to type of enter into this gallery and see my pieces, which were NFTs obviously, and have the ability to see them, listen to them, and see information on them. Then stroll the other method and see another NFT deal with another wall. It was actually cool, the setup was actually great and it’s type of my very first dive into this world as an artist.

I’ve constantly had an interest in the capability to impact numerous senses concurrently, as a method of type of having a more powerful effect creatively. I did that with my art in music, which we call “Eye For Noise.” We utilize an app that does optical acknowledgment and you stroll into a physical gallery and you have the ability to listen to each of the paintings with a smart device or earbuds.

It’s like an immersive experience and with NFTs the capability to make that painting in fact physically come to life making use of animation and digital painting. Like my buddy, Roger Kupelian, who has actually dealt with Lord of the Rings and numerous numerous movies, his paintings come to life with the music in the background. So I am actually thrilled about it due to the fact that the item came out actually unbelievable.

BCN: Do you gather any other possessions from particular NFT collections?

Serj Tankian: I have not up until now. To be truthful, I am not a big physical art collector, despite the fact that I produce physical art. I do have some paintings by some buddies. Perhaps it’s the reality that I remain in some methods a minimalist. I don’t like mess, even on a disk drive. I have a great deal of pals who are collectors and they enjoy gathering art, gathering things, NFTs, and I’m simply not a collector. I am an artist, I produce.

BCN: Do any of the other System of the Down bandmates like NFTs?

Serj Tankian: I haven’t in fact asked. I am unsure any of them have actually purchased any. I would question it, however perhaps Shavo (SoaD bass gamer Shavo Odadjian), due to the fact that he’s really tech-friendly and versus the other people. So potentially Shavo, however I am unsure.

BCN: Why do you believe NFTs are the “next action” in regards to creative production?

Serj Tankian: I was stating that declaration is directed at me. Due to the fact that it offered me a brand-new platform to be able to include a measurement of experience that I hadn’t had the ability to include physically. That would be crawling into the virtual area in a manner that I can make the paintings move, make them dance.

Where in the physical area, paintings are on the wall and they are not dancing, however the music-making you enter into them, which is lovely. And now I have the ability to complete that area in between the wall and the listener with NFTs. I anticipate discovering more areas, virtual or physical, to be able to engage even more with numerous senses to increase the strength of the artist’s vision.

BCN: Besides NFTs are you into other kinds of blockchain tasks, like crypto-assets such as bitcoin?

Serj Tankian: Not actually. I don’t understand sh*t about it. I am totally an ignorant individual when it pertains to blockchain, bitcoin, and any of it. I don’t own any, to me [NFT tech] is a brand-new world of providing my art, so that’s my in. However I actually don’t understand much about blockchain however I have pals who have actually purchased bitcoin early and they are really enthused.

BCN: A great deal of individuals think blockchain tech can get rid of parasitic 3rd parties from different components in our lives. Would you concur with that?

Serj Tankian: I believe there is certainly reality to that. I believe it’s a subversive innovation in a manner or perhaps it’s not subversive, and perhaps it’s an option. You consider the gold requirement and how the cash utilized to be based upon gold. Then they left the gold requirement due to the fact that they couldn’t discover adequate gold. They broadened beyond that so the majority of currencies are based upon the stability of the federal government of that country.

With blockchain and bitcoin you are beyond that system. To me the entire thing is really intriguing, NFTs consisted of, due to the fact that the human character consenting to worth things in a particular method is really intriguing.

BCN: Do you intend on doing anymore NFT exhibits including your art work?

Serj Tankian: I do. However I wish to discover the next level. I would enjoy to do a physical gallery or museum exhibit, where there are these physically separated areas for each of my paintings and you produce much more of this virtual fulfills the real world. Where you can engage with the numerous measurements of art that consist of painting, certainly the music surrounding you, perhaps some touch and odor components, lighting, and bring the virtual world into that. Perhaps the NFTs might be forecasted, within the real area, I’m beginning to consider numerous measurements and the boost of the strength of the creative result.

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