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Parker Ito: exploring The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble
00:38 - Welcome Parker Ito
05:25 - Tumblr, Post-Internet scene and finding community
12:20 - The effect of early success
20:30 - Disillusionment with the art world
24:25 - What caused the market to boom
26:28 - Deep lore, Basel 2015 and Leonardo DiCaprio
30:01 - The compromises needed to work as an artist
33:03 - Through-lines and stylistic tropes
35:10 - A non-hierarchical approach
38:17 - Discovering NFTs
39:50 - Balancing the traditional art world and the NFT space
42:27 - Cultural friction and the benefit to the stigma around NFTs
46:00 - Finding the Solana scene
48:17 - Horses, Drifella 2, Drilady and Parkerito.net
52:55 - The Pilgrim’s Living Room Crucifixion; Mona Lisa Hyper-Gamble
58:10 - Traitmaxxing, repetition and composition
01:01:55 - The working process of the Living Room Crucifixion
01:10:50 - Ambiguity within the art work
01:13:17 - The work as a metaphor for a psychological space
01:16:15 - Objects, layers and series traits
01:19:01 - Beyond Living Room Crucifixion
01:21:20 - The artist residency at the Bellagio
Parker Ito: https://x.com/creamydreamy
Parker Ito
Parker Ito is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video, installation, printmaking, drawing, websites, NFTs, and books. His work is as much about the lines between disparate media and forms—in effect, the network itself—as it is about discrete pieces. Rooted in an early art-driven internet community, its elasticity reflects that of the web, and...
