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Name
Daniel Ari Friedman
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Location
Davis, California, USA, Earth
38° 32' 41.6652'' N & 121° 44' 25.8612'' W
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Voice/Text #
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Keybase username
docxology
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ENS registration
docxology.eth
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ORCID
0000-0001-6232-9096
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Education
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Education
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Postdoctoral Fellow
2019
2023
University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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PhD
2014
2019
Stanford University, CA, USA
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BSc
2010
2014
University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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High School
2006
2010
Crystal Springs Uplands School, CA
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Select Work and Teaching
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Description
Community Organization
4
Active Inference Institute
2021
Ongoing
Co-Founder
Participant
Facilitator
Organizer
Co-founded the , have organized and implemented , multiple educational programs (Ontology development, Textbook groups, etc), and other ecosystem engagement activities.
Complexity Adventures
2019
2024
Co-Founder, Facilitator, Participant
Organizer
At , organizing activities and community around learning and applying Complexity.
COGSEC
2019
Ongoing
Researcher
Stanford Complexity Group
2014
2019
Organizer
Participant
Organizing the Stanford Complexity Group while it was active.
Startup
4
Stealth Startup
2023
2024
Co-Founder
Operator
Stealth Active Inference startup
Remotor
2019
2023
Co-Founder
Researcher
fm.analytics
2017
2019
Co-Founder
Researcher
Predictive analytics and dashboard visualizations. With Prof. Glenn Magerman @ KU Leuven (Economics)
Cryptoptera
2017
2019
Co-Founder
Researcher
Three-person cryptocurrency research group.
Research
3
Johnson Lab
Linksvayer Lab
2019
2023
Mentor
Researcher
Postdoctoral position during NSF fellowship with Brian Johnson (UC Davis) and Tim Linksvayer (ASU)
Gordon Lab
2014
2019
Mentor
Researcher
During graduate school: Research, Field work, Wet lab, Bioinformatics, Mentor for multiple high schoolers, undergraduates, graduate students, and non-academics. I have worked with various students of different backgrounds, for varying lengths of time from one-time to multi-year. I aim to help people manage their scientific projects, personal interactions, and learning trajectory through discourse and discussions.
Kopp Lab
2010
2014
Researcher
Undergraduate Research Assistant with Prof. Artyom Kopp, Ecology & Evolution, UC Davis. We examined the role of non-coding DNA elements in the evolution of a sexually dimorphic trait: the foreleg sex comb in Drosophila fruit flies.
Pedicab
1
Pedicab People Movers
2014
2019
Operator
Operating a pedicab/rickshaw at events such as music festivals in CA and downtown areas (Davis & San Jose, CA).
Teaching
2
Stanford Complexity Group
2015
2016
Teacher
Organizer
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Stanford University) for Undergraduate & Graduate courses: 2015 “General Biology: Cell and Molecular Biology”, and 2016 “Ethics of Evolutionary Biology.”
UC Davis
2014
2014
Teacher
Organizer
Student Teacher, Developmental Biology Course Co-developer
With Prof. Susan Keen at UC Davis, designed and co-taught a developmental biology course.
Tutoring
1
UC Davis
2010
2015
Tutor
Independent tutoring business, Davis and Stanford, CA. Teaching to (and learning from) undergraduates. 0-10 hours per week: genetics, biology, chemistry.
A View of Works & Publications
Type
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Title
URL
Venue
Collaborators
DOI or ISBN
Book
22
Structuring the Information Commons: Open Standards and Cognitive Security
RJ Cordes
Scott David
DAF
Other authors
978-1-7364269-3-7
21
Narrative Information Ecosystems: Conflict and Trust on the Endless Frontier
RJ Cordes
DAF
978-1-7364269-2-0
20
The Great Preset: Remote Teams and Operational Art
RJ Cordes
DAF
978-1-7364269-0-6
Paper
24
Federated inference and belief sharing
Karl Friston
Thomas Parr
Conor Heins
Axel Constant
DAF
Takuya Isomura
Chris Fields
Tim Verbelen
Maxwell Ramstead
John Clippinger
Christopher Frith
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105500
24
Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference
Mahault Albarracin
Riddhi Jain Pitliya
Toby Benedict St. Clere Smith
DAF
Karl Friston
Maxwell Ramstead
10.3390/e26040303
24
Enhancing Population-based Search with Active Inference
Nassim Dehouche
DAF
10.48550/arXiv.2408.09548
24
Aligning Active Inference Ontology to SUMO
Dave Douglass
DAF
Other authors
10.5281/zenodo.11459322
24
Bridging gaps in image meme research: A multidisciplinary paradigm for scaling up qualitative analyses
Mridula Mascarenhas
RJ Cordes
DAF
10.1002/asi.24900
24
Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic: A Comment on: ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago
DAF
Dean Tickles
10.1016/j.plrev.2024.04.010
24
Chemical and transcriptomic diversity do not correlate with ascending levels of social complexity in the insect order Blattodea
Marek Golian
DAF
Mark Harrison
Dino McMahon
Jan Buellesbach
10.1002/ece3.70063
24
Thoughtseeds: Evolutionary Priors, Nested Markov Blankets, and the Emergence of Embodied Cognition
Prakash Kavi
Gorka Lopez
DAF
10.48550/arXiv.2408.15982
24
Way Finding in the Infinite Imaginarium: Juxtaposing Epistemic Tempos and Modes
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.10601082
24
Comments Submitted by BlockScience, University of Washington APL Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative (IRSIRI), Cognitive Security and Education Forum (COGSEC), and the Active Inference Institute (AII) to the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development National Coordination Office's Request for Comment on The Creation of a National Digital Twins R&D Strategic Plan NITRD-2024-13379
Michael Zargham
David Sisson
Scott David
DAF
RJ Cordes
10.5281/zenodo.13273681
24
FarmWorks: Decentralized AI Agents for Personalized Solutions
DAF
Other authors
10.5281/zenodo.13754585
23
A single-pheromone model accounts for empirical patterns of ant colony foraging previously modeled using two pheromones
Eric Saund
DAF
10.1016/j.cogsys.2023.02.005
23
A variational synthesis of evolutionary and developmental dynamics
Karl Friston
DAF
Axel Constant
Bleu Knight
Thomas Parr
John Campbell
10.3390/e25070964
23
ATLAS: A Question Oriented Approach to the Use of Pattern Languages in Knowledge Management
RJ Cordes
Scott David
DAF
Alexandra Mikhailova
Andrew Penland
Sam Young
Colten Zacharias
10.5281/zenodo.10296601
23
Generalized Notation Notation for Active Inference Models
Jakub Smékal
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7803328
23
Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.10038232
23
Open Access science needs Open Science Sensemaking (OSSm): open infrastructure for sharing scientific sensemaking data
Ronen Tamari
DAF
10.31222/osf.io/9nb3u
23
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!: Comment on “To copy or not to copy?...”
Dean Tickles
DAF
10.1016/j.plrev.2023.06.002
23
Generative Research Teams: Active Inference Compositions For Research and Meta-Science
Jakub Smékal
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.8164667
23
The Active Inference Institute and Active Inference Ecosystem
DAF
Other authors
10.5281/zenodo.8266281
23
A snapshot and pipeline for tissue-specific gene expression meta-analysis in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
DAF
Chao Tong
Tim Linksvayer
Matthias Freund
Nicole Weronika Keough
Brian Johnson
10.5281/zenodo.10400744
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Distributed Science - The Scientific Process as Multi-Scale Active Inference
Francesco Balzan
John Campbell
Karl Friston
Maxwell Ramstead
DAF
Axel Constant
10.31219/osf.io/dnw5k
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The Properties, Processes, and Perspectives Inter-Framework (P3IF): Multiplexing interdisciplinary requirements frameworks to manage information risk and foster cognitive security
Tom Wilkinson
Scott David
RJ Cordes
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.10034512
23
A guided tour through the spaces of particular “minds”: A Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things”
Ali Rahmjoo
DAF
10.1016/j.plrev.2023.11.001
23
Enhanced NSF Postdoctoral Reporting via Synthetic Intelligence Language Processing
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.10160656
23
Comments on AI Accountability Policy Submitted to NTIA Docket 2023-0005-0001 by IRSIRI, AII, PFH, and COGSEC
Scott David
Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh
DAF
RJ Cordes
10.5281/zenodo.8025957
23
A Natural AI Based on The Science of Computational Physics, Biology and Neuroscience: Policy and Societal Significance
DAF
Other authors
10.5281/zenodo.10360148
22
From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking
Ronen Tamari
DAF
William Fischer
Lauren Hebert
Dafna Shahaf
10.48550/arXiv.2205.06345
22
Tracking Public Sensemaking through Rhetorical Annotation of Image Memes
Mridula Mascarenhas
RJ Cordes
Bleu Knight
Sarah Murphy
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.6904427
22
An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons
DAF
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Arhan Choudhury
RJ Cordes
Bleu Knight
Ivan Metelkin
Alex Vyatkin
Shady El Damaty
Avel Guénin—Carlut
Siddhant Shrivastava
Amit Kumar Singh
Jakub Smékal
Caleb Tuttle
10.5281/zenodo.6320574
22
TrustFinder: Recommendations for a Community-Based System for Finding Trusted Sources and Evaluating Claims
RJ Cordes
Scott David
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7093837
22
Predictive Processing Interpretation of the Mirror Test and Implications of a Reflection Prediction for Human Cognition
Sean O'Connor
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7377256
22
On free will or the lack thereof
Robert Sapolsky
Alexandra Mikhailova
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7394901
22
Catechism for: "Towards Active Diffusion: A Tale of Multiple (den)Cities"
Jakub Smékal
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7443848
22
The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference: a Systematic Literature Analysis
Bleu Knight
RJ Cordes
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7449368
22
Systems Modeling and Cognitive Audits for Hypercert Ecosystems
Jakub Smékal
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7626769
21
Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior
DAF
Alex Tschantz
Maxwell Ramstead
Axel Constant
Karl Friston
10.3389/fnbeh.2021.647732
21
Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem Analysis: Sensemaking of Digital Memetic Discourse
DAF
RJ Cordes
Mridula Mascarenhas
10.5281/zenodo.5573947
21
Narrative Information Management
RJ Cordes
DAF
Alexandra Mikhailova
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Bleu Knight
10.5281/zenodo.5573287
20
The neuroscience of decision making
Timothy Hanks
Alexandra Mikhailova
DAF
10.34700/8pg4-0h12
20
Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams
Alex Vyatkin
Ivan Metelkin
Alexandra Mikhailova
RJ Cordes
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.4021163
20
Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects
DAF
Tim Linksvayer
Brian Johnson
10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104757
20
Gene expression variation in the brains of harvester ant foragers is associated with collective behavior
DAF
Ryan York
Austin Hilliard
Deborah Gordon
10.1038/s42003-020-0813-8
20
Measurement of natural variation of neurotransmitter tissue content in red harvester ant brains among different colonies.
Mimi Shin
DAF
Deborah Gordon
BJ Venton
10.1007/s00216-019-02355-3
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The ant colony as a test for scientific theories of consciousness
Eirik Søvik
DAF
10.1007/s11229-019-02130-y
19
The physiology of forager hydration and variation among harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) colonies in collective foraging
DAF
Deborah Gordon
Mike Greene
10.1038/s41598-019-41586-3
18
“The Role of Dopamine in the Collective Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants”
DAF
Anna Pilko
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczy
Karolina M Krasinska
J Parker
J Hirsh
Deborah Gordon
10.1016/j.isci.2018.09.001
18
“Foraging behavior and locomotion of the invasive Argentine ant from winter aggregations”
Ben Burford
Ga-il Lee
DAF
E Brachmann
Rebia Khan
Dylan MacArthur-Waltz
Aiden McCarty
Deborah Gordon
10.1371/journal.pone.0202117
18
"Partner Pen Play in Parallel (PPPiP): A New PPPiParadigm for Relationship Improvement"
Alexandra Mikhailova
DAF
10.3390/arts7030039
18
“Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness”
Karl Friston
Martin Fortier
DAF
10.34700/h460-nz89
16
“Context-dependent expression of the foraging gene in field colonies of ants: the interacting roles of age, environment and task”
KK Ingram
Mike Greene
J Kahler
S Peteru
Deborah Gordon
DAF
10.1098/rspb.2016.0841
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“Ant Genetics: Reproductive Physiology, Worker Morphology, and Behavior”
DAF
Deborah Gordon
10.1146/annurev-neuro-070815-013927
16
"Influence of Nuclear Structure on the formation of radiation-induced lethal lesions"
DAF
Lauren Tait
Andrew Vaughan
10.3109/09553002.2016.1144941
15
“Could Ehrlichial Infection Cause Some of the Changes Associated with Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Diseases and Autoimmune Disorders, and Offer Antibiotic Treatment Options?”
CA Kallick
MBA Nyindo
DAF
10.1016/j.mehy.2015.09.015
15
"Large Scale Coding Sequence Change Underlies the Evolution of Post-developmental Novelty in Honey Bees"
WC Jasper
Tim Linksvayer
Joel Atallah
DAF
JC Chiu
Brian Johnson
10.1093/molbev/msu292
15
“Commentary: Portuguese crypto-Jews: the genetic heritage of a complex history”
AW Marcus
Emily Ebel
10.3389/fgene.2015.00261
Course
Playbook
PhD Dissertation
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Behavioral, Physiological, and Transcriptomic Variation Among Colonies of the Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
DAF
Poster
23
Active Blockference: cadCAD with Active Inference for cognitive systems modeling
Jakub Smékal
Arhan Choudhury
Amit Kumar Singh
Shady El Damaty
DAF
10.1007/978-3-031-28719-0_10
Presentation
24
MathArt Stream #8 ~ William Blake and Active Inference
Shanna Dobson
Dean Tickles
Héctor Manrique
10.5281/zenodo.13711301
23
William Blake & Buckminster Fuller: Lives in Juxtaposition (A study in Comprehensivity)
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.7514368
23
Monitoring memetic sense-making across digital publics: Combining rhetorical analysis and ecological frameworks for gathering and analyzing image-memes
Mridula Mascarenhas
DAF
RJ Cordes
None
23
Modern Nostr Index Card-based Knowledge Engineering
Andrew Claros
DAF
10.5281/zenodo.8118156
Essay
Livestream
24
DAF
Other authors
10.5281/zenodo.7964130
24
DAF
Other authors
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Year
Conference
Type
Context and/or Title
1
2024
Workshop
4
2022
Talk
“Tissue-specific gene expression meta-analysis in honey bees (Apis mellifera)” 4/10/2022
5
2021
Talk
“Thinking like a State : Active inference and the deep roots of complex societies”. Avel Guénin-Carlut, Daniel Friedman and Virginia Bleu Knight.
6
2021
Talk
“Introducing Active Inference as An Integrative Principle in The Study of Collective Intelligence”. Avel Guénin-Carlut and Daniel Friedman
7
2020
Talk
“Active Inference for Communicating Systems”, Invited Online Seminar, 11/3/2020
8
2019
Talk
Invited seminar, Dept. of Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis, 4/5/2019
9
2018
Talk
Invited seminar, Stanford University Mass Spectrometry Research Symposium (SUMS-RAS), 10/4/2018
10
2018
Essig Entomology Brunch
Talk
Invited seminar, Essig Entomology brunch, University of California, Berkeley. 2/6/2018
11
2017
Poster
“The role of dopamine in the regulation of foraging in the red harvester ant”, poster at Entomology Society of America conference
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2017
Poster
“Quantitative LC-MS/MS analysis of dopamine in single ant brain samples”. KM Krasinska, DA Friedman, DM Gordon, AS Chien. American Society of Mass Spectroscopy Conference.
13
2015
Poster
“Transcriptomic analysis of the regulation of foraging in harvester ants”. DA Friedman, A Pilko, DM Gordon.
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2014
Poster
"Evolution of sex comb enhancers in the HOX gene Scr". DA Friedman, T Orenic, C McCullough, E Eksi, OY Barmina, A Kopp. Poster.
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2012
Talk
"Visualizing the Integration of Sensory Neurons into a Sex-Specific Central Nervous System Circuit in 3-D." DA Friedman.
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Science Engagement, Outreach, Quotes, Articles and More
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Year
Name
Link
Video conversations on other channels
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2024
Building Smarter AI: Active Inference & Nested Models – Bagaev, de Vries, Friedman, Pashea | 05 (FP1)
2023
Episode 6 | Special Guest – Daniel Friedman – Active Inference Institute | What is Active Inference? (Denise Holt)
2022
220 | Artist of Curio Cards 24-26 Shares Incredible Journey through Art & Science | Daniel Friedman (Jake Gallen)
2022
What Ant Behavior Reveals About Complexity Science with Daniel Friedman (Making Sense of Complexity ~ Episode 1)
2022
KBCast Episode 7: Kernel Block 5 Week 6 and special guest Daniel Ari Friedman (Active Inference Lab)
2022
Episode 1 - What Ant Behavior Reveals About Complexity Science with Daniel Friedman (Making Sense of Complexity)
2022
KBCast Episode 7: Kernel Block 5 Week 6 and special guest Daniel Ari Friedman (Active Inference Lab)
2020
Interview with Monica Kang about Complexity Weekend, with co-founder Shaun Swanson and organizer JP Gonzales
2019
Radio Interview, Feb. 4th 2019, KPOO 89.5 FM in San Francisco.
Blurb
5
2020
Blurb in Science magazine about rethinking time use for scientists
2013
Blurb in Science magazine about time travel.
Lecture
2
2017
Public lecture: Red Vic lecture series, San Francisco, 2017. History and philosophy of Art and Biology.
2016
Public lecture: Red Vic lecture series, San Francisco, 2016. History & philosophy of “self-organization”, stigmergy, and the eusocial insects.
Quote
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Professional Participant, Engagement, and Service
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2022
2024
Vice-President for Communication and Systems Education on the
ISSS
Board of Directors
5
2020
Ongoing
Active Inference Institute
Community
6
2020
2023
Davis Complexity Group
Davis Complexity Group
Community
7
2019
2024
Complexity Adventures
Community
12
2017
2018
Graduate Student Member of Arts Committee for Stanford Biology department
Stanford
Membership
13
2016
2019
Stanford Complexity Group
Stanford Complexity Group
Community
14
2016
2016
Science Teaching Through Art (STAR) Outreach program. Gave poster presentations and talked about ants at local middle/high schools.
Stanford
Community
15
2015
2015
Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School (1 month residential program).
Santa Fe Institute
Workshops
16
2014
2018
5 Summers of fieldwork (1-2 months) with Ants during PhD, under supervision of Prof. Deborah Gordon. Performing experiments at Southwestern Research Station (SWRS), Arizona, USA.
Gordon Lab
Field work
17
2014
2014
Summer field ecology class with Stanford Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo, Las Tuxtlas tropical research station, Mexico (2 weeks)
Stanford
Field work
18
2014
2014
Summer workshop on Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics at NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2 weeks)
NIMBioS
Workshops
20
2014
Ongoing
Invited peer reviewer for 1-10 articles per year, different journals
Science
Academia
21
2014
2023
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)
IUSSI
Membership
22
2014
2017
Stanford Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) outreach programs; e.g. teaching genetics in local middle schools, hosting high-school students at Stanford.
Stanford
Community
23
2014
2017
Stanford Bio Core “Explorations” hands-on Lecture/workshop for undergraduates:, “Art & Biology”.
Stanford
Community
24
2013
2013
Science mentoring, Woodland High School, 2013.
UC Davis
Community
25
2012
2012
Drums & Percussion for 2012’s UC Davis production of the rock opera “RENT”.
UC Davis
Community
26
2012
2013
Volunteer in Emergency Room at Hospital in Sacramento. 4 hours/week for 6 months.
UC Davis
Community
27
2011
2014
Chess Club at UC Davis President (2012-2014), organizing free, outdoor chess at the Farmer’s Market twice-weekly for two years. Passionate about (teaching) chess.
UC Davis
Community
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Art Portfolio and Uses
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Year
Name
Description
Link
2
2021
Curio Cards
A full set of Curio Cards sold on Oct. 1st 2021 for 393 ETH ($1.3 million USD) at Christie’s Auction house, New York. Live auction, their first ever with the bidding happening in ETH not USD.
3
2021
Curio Cards
The Curio Card collection is being stored in the “Arctic World Archive” where the full art and provenance data will be stored for 1000+ years.
4
2021
Curio Cards
A full set of Curio Cards sold in October 2021 at Sotheby’s Auction house for $625,000.
5
2019
Art used
Art used in the eBook “Rebelling with Care. Exploring open technologies for commoning healthcare.”
10
2017
Curio Cards
the first Art NFT (non-fungible token) on Ethereum representing a physical work. I did the art for 24, 25, 26.
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