summary: Matt Kane is a Digital Artist, he writes algorithms and layers their mathematical output to create complex & colorful art..
content: Matt Kane (crypto artist) is a Digital Artist, he writes algorithms and layers their mathematical output to create complex, colorful manifestations of his creative visions. His oil paintings gave him a successful entry into the collectors' driven market back in 2004. Early Life Matt Kane born as Matthew Kane was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. There is currently no information on his parents or whether he has any siblings or not. !34E437F3-CE8A-4571-8051-1FBEA2CD743Fpng.png Growing up, he had always had a talent for art and painting right from a young age. Professional Life He currently resides in California, USA. He is presently single. Education He attended a high school in Illinois, USA. After graduating, he went on to get admission into Northern Illinois University in 1999. He studied Education while in university, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education in 2003. Career After graduating from the university, he began working as a Design Instructor at a organization named T.P.H.S. in August 2003. What Was Never Said Is Gone by Matt Kane At the organization, he was responsible for teaching students design, utilizing Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, and Adobe Dreamweaver. He worked there for over 3 years and left in July 2006 · He then went on to work as an Interactive Developer at Fitch, he started working there in February 2007. At the company, he worked on brand-centered websites and email templates for clients of all sizes from small businesses to corporations such as Microsoft and Viacom. He made use of HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, Flash, AS2, Image Production. He worked there for over one year and left in June 2008. In that same month, he got another job as a Front End Web Developer at Personify Design. At the company, he was responsible for Front End Technology skinning of DotNetNuke CMS, ASPDotNetStorefront, Sharepoint, and ASP.net websites. !0FE97380-53C0-454B-989F-60D7EB68F6DDpng.pngBuild the Future- Balaji Srinivasan He also trained clients in Content Management Systems. He worked at the company for over a year, then left in July 2008. However, he currently partnered with Personify, continuing to do front-end work as part of his Freelance business. He then became a Freelance Web Developer and Designer. His company name was MattKane.NET, he began this in August 2003. He is a Front-End Web Developer specializing in HTML/CSS, PHP, JQuery, JavaScript, Email Template, ASP.net, Wordpress, Drupal, Ubercart, and CMS solutions for corporate, small business, and e-commerce websites. He is still a Freelance Web Developer and has been doing it for more than 17 years. !475A8CC3-3785-4869-B994-8A864967725Apng.pngVisionary Founder- Jesse Powell by Matt Kane He worked with the company Brenthaven. He started working with them in August 2009. He was responsible for updating legacy website with new design skin and he led the migration to Drupal and Ubercart that allowed for improved user and administrator experience. He also iterated the website with AB and Multivariate testing to improve sales conversions. He worked with them for over 3 years then left in May 2013. He also worked for the company, Rivet & Sway location in Seattle, Washington . He worked for over four years from between June 2011 to February 2014· He is also an artist, he has his website, MattKane.art where he displays his artworks. He pursued art as a career in June 2001 and has been in it for over 20 years. He writes algorithms & layers their mathematical output to create complex, colorful manifestations of his creative visions. He is currently active in Crypto Art movement. Being a self- taught programmer, he designed the custom software with which he produces his vibrant, infinitely detailed and multilayered artistic visions. His current practice addresses and reworks the most varied subjects, from art history masterpieces to Victorian eery family pictures to contemporary icons, coating them in intricate, audaciously coloured patterns. !F6F0D853-7C40-4901-BB8B-B3F46063DB9Ejpeg.jpegExcessive Force - Cat Devouring Bird after Picasso He stated that, he is “interested in exploring historical aesthetics with code; to do with geometry what the great painters did with oils.” He was among the pioneering artists to contribute to "First Supper", the first-ever programmable artwork on the Ethereum-based Async Art platform. Async Art is a new art movement built on the blockchain. Create, collect, and trade programmable art: digital paintings split into "Layers", which you can use to affect the overall image. Art that can evolve over time or react to its owners is now possible with programmable art. !B05D6666-C30A-4504-9C9B-DA534BC643A0jpeg.jpeg Last Supper by Matt Kane Interview with Beta Cent “My name is Matt Kane, and I'm a full-time artist right now. I've been active in the crypto art space for roughly a year. I was a big-time lurker before that. I think I've been kind of watching the space evolve since 2017. I got introduced to the crypto art space because I've been developing a generative art program. It was an article by Art Nome (Jason Bailey) that I saw which kind of drew me into crypto art I believe, although I think it had already crossed my path. My larger story is that I started out as an oil painter, represented by a gallery in Chicago around 2003 in my early 20s." “When I was still in Chicago creating work for my solo show, I was painting little dots around a figure I was working on. And I suddenly in my mind's eye, I see this rapidly happening in front of me where all of these colors just start, you know, shooting out and it's like in a pattern of red, red, green, red, red, green, big, small, big, big, small, big. And I know nothing about coding at the time. I'm probably 25 or 26 years old. I don't even know how to do HTML, make text bold or anything like that. But at that moment, I kind of understood that I saw this computer program right in front of me on my canvas. So, I realized that for my larger vision I’d need to learn how to program so that I can build that software one day.” “Usually after I come back from my walk, it's generally during meditations that ideas will come together and sometimes they'll be related to what I'm building with the software. Sometimes they're image-based, like the 8 different layer states of the ‘Visionary Spirit of Creation’ that I did in the latest collaboration for Async.art. That was something that fully came to me in meditation. I had no idea what I was going to do for that work. I thought I was just going to make the table, but when I came back from a really successful walk and I was in the flow state, I laid down to do my meditation and I knew what I needed to do right away.” “This is where art is taking a turn. The future is more digital...The art is more digital as well... Everyone is introducing their little something to this change. And that little something is the legacy that's shaping the future.You asked me what drives me? This is what drives me! I haven't been working on my software lately. I've been working on crypto art. On community outreach. And talking to other artists and collectors. We all have an opportunity to shape the future."You're not really bidding on what you're seeing the NFT representing, you're bidding on future experiences. My artistic philosophy is that these works of art are going to be reinterpreted int he future like pieces of music. When I create my paintings, they're databases because I wanted to create a medium like music that can be reinterpreted...And it'll be reinterpreted long after I'm dead. That's where I'm going with my art." Matt, NFTs and Digital Art The record-breaking sale of Matt Kane's "Right Place & Right Time" on Async.art marks the first time a piece has sold for more than $100,000 in cryptoart movement. !84D5000C-6E00-4B24-BDB9-EC5022F429A4jpeg.jpegWhat Was Never Said Is Gone (variation) by Matt Kane A historical sale for an art- based Non-Fungible Token (NFT), it signals the emerging market is gaining traction despite uncertain economic times. The artwork is a one-of-a-kind programmable piece that generates a new image each day. It is made of 24 Layers synchronized with Bitcoin's price volatility from the previous 24 hours, it was created exclusively on Async Art. With the patronage of TokenAngels, the artwork's collector, the artist gained an unique opportunity to experiment: sharing revenue with a collector in the form of subsequent minted variations of the artwork. Kane explained that he launched the smart contract for Volatility.art (where you can track “Right Place & Right Time”) on January 3 2020, Bitcoin's birthday, and that he will begin releasing the 210 NFTs that go with the piece for public sale in February. Volatility.art is the first smart contract on Blank Network. This collaboration is estimated to run for the next 10+ years, this promises to become one of the longest running art collaborations. One day at a time, "Right Place & Right Time" could become one of the most significant pieces in the cryptoart movement. He has produced many other minted NFTs, including one from August 2020 titled “Nocturne Blue and Gold After Whistler.” 8 minutes 46 seconds- In Memoriam of George Floyd He also minted a number of others throughout the year, including “Excessive Force (Cat Devouring a Bird after Pablo Picasso)” in July and “First” in June 2020. During an interview, when asked, what is an NFT to an artist? He said “For me as an artist, I look at NFTs as providing digital art with u