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🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The story of one local NYC artist who uses digital technology to honor our city’s past.
Meet Vladimir Nazarov, a visual artist living in New York City, who combined his love for the city and his love of art to create a special 9/11 NFT. Through his story of hope, grief, and artistry, find out what happened to his commemorative NFT – and how this technology can bring a whole new experience to the world of art. Plus, a question about the subject of the piece propels the conversation in a completely unexpected direction.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:09.2 | Lately, we've been talking a lot about how digital technology influences the way we live. |
| 0:14.8 | And we found people using it in a lot of interesting ways. |
| 0:18.1 | In fact, last year, an organization called 9-11 Day commemorated the anniversary with |
| 0:23.5 | get this, NFTs. |
| 0:25.8 | Those are basically digital assets. |
| 0:27.7 | An auction of the digital art supported the efforts to make September 11th a national |
| 0:32.7 | day of service. |
| 0:34.4 | I met up with Vlad and James Nazarov, two of the artists who contributed and who are |
| 0:40.9 | also father and son. |
| 0:44.5 | We're in Vlad's studio right underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. |
| 0:47.5 | You can feel the rumble of the trains passing by. |
| 0:50.4 | Imagine 20-foot tall ceilings and bright studio lights. |
| 0:54.3 | Paintings are everywhere. |
| 0:55.6 | Some of them more than 15 feet long, stacked on top of each other along the walls. |
| 1:00.7 | James walks us through it. |
| 1:02.3 | This piece is from his series called The Pop Mona Lisa. |
| 1:05.6 | When you see the face in total, you know, you don't know it's just she happy, angry, sad, |
| 1:11.5 | and it's combined with his heart patterns, which is one of the styles that he's known for. |
| 1:16.5 | Over his lifetime, he's experimented with lots of different styles. |
| 1:20.3 | And he'll use whatever he can get his hands on. |
| 1:23.1 | With the metal, stone, acrylic, oil, air conditioning, parts, all toilets, and a toilet |
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