How IX Shells Became the Highest-Selling Female NFT Artist

Itzel Yard, known throughout the NFT space as IX Shells, is a generative artist and creative coder based in Panama working at the intersection between computer science and art. Dreaming at Dusk — her generative art piece derived from the cryptographic key of the very first Tor onion website — sold for $2 million to PleasrDAO in May 2021, making her the highest-selling female NFT artist ever. Since the record-breaking sale, she has continued to make waves in the NFT art sphere, with her most recent project Thalamic Pulse raising over $100 thousand for MAPS’ research on assisted therapy for trauma recovery.In this episode we cover:Shells’ journey into the generative art worldThe story behind Dreaming at Dusk’s record-breaking saleHow the NFT space can be more equitable towards NFT artists of all sexes and backgroundsThe future of generative artTo listen to the audio version of this episode, go to http://smarturl.it/nftnowTo sign up for the nft now newsletter where we break down the NFT market into actionable insights each week, go to: https://www.nftnow.com To follow IX Shells on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/ix_shellsTo follow IX Shells on Instagram, go here: https://instagram.com/ix.shells Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.