‘Making a Stronger Impact Artistically’ — An In-Depth Discussion About NFTs With System of a Down’s Serj Tankian

Last month, the pb vocalist of System of a Down, Serj Tankian, hosted an creation accumulation with the non-fungible token (NFT) level and marketplace Curio NFT. The carnal and virtual-melded creation amusement was called “Not for Touching” and this week Tankian told Bitcoin.com News that helium believes NFT exertion has opened caller doors for his creator expression.

This week Bitcoin.com News chatted with System of a Down’s (SoaD) pb vocalist, Serj Tankian, astir non-fungible token (NFT) tech and however it has fixed him the quality to explicit his creation successful a caller way. In December, Tankian and Curio NFT hosted an creation accumulation featuring the artist’s NFT artwork called “Not for Touching.”

Tankian has been an creator for years, but NFTs has fixed the SoaD vocalist a caller mode “to impact aggregate senses simultaneously” and helium stressed that he’s ever funny successful having “a stronger interaction artistically.” The pursuing is an in-depth treatment with SoaD’s Serj Tankian that Bitcoin.com News recorded connected January 5.

Bitcoin.com News (BCN): You’ve precocious stepped into the satellite of NFTs. Can you archer our readers however you discovered NFT technology?

Serj Tankian: I discovered it by speechmaking the news. Seeing however antithetic artists were releasing NFTs. We were remodeling the location and I had a batch of speechmaking time, and I was similar ‘wow this is truly interesting.’ Since I’ve been doing creation for a fig of years, musically connected art, I thought ‘wow this could beryllium a caller level for what I americium doing.’ So that’s wherever the transportation of the thought came into play.

BCN: Recently, you hosted an creation amusement called “Not for Touching” with Curio NFT. Can you archer our readers astir this lawsuit and however it went?

Serj Tankian: The lawsuit went truly well, they acceptable up a virtual assemblage which was truly absorbing for me. To beryllium capable to benignant of spell into this assemblage and spot my pieces, which were NFTs of course, and beryllium capable to presumption them, perceive to them, and spot details connected them. Then locomotion the different mode and spot different NFT enactment connected different wall. It was truly cool, the setup was truly bully and it’s benignant of my archetypal dive into this satellite arsenic an artist.

NFT creation by System of a Down’s Serj Tankian.

I’ve ever been funny successful the quality to impact aggregate senses simultaneously, arsenic a mode of benignant of having a stronger interaction artistically. I did that with my creation successful music, which we telephone “Eye For Sound.” We usage an app that does optical designation and you locomotion into a carnal assemblage and you are capable to perceive to each of the paintings with a smartphone oregon earbuds.

It’s similar an immersive acquisition and with NFTs the quality to marque that coating really physically travel to beingness utilizing animation and integer painting. Like my bully friend, Roger Kupelian, who has worked connected Lord of the Rings and galore many films, his paintings travel to beingness with the euphony successful the background. So I americium truly excited astir it due to the fact that the merchandise came retired truly incredible.

BCN: Do you cod immoderate different assets from circumstantial NFT collections?

Serj Tankian: I person not truthful far. To beryllium honest, I americium not a ample carnal creation collector, adjacent though I nutrient carnal art. I bash person immoderate paintings by immoderate bully friends. Maybe it’s the information that I americium successful immoderate ways a minimalist. I don’t similar clutter, adjacent connected a hard drive. I person a batch of friends who are collectors and they emotion collecting art, collecting things, NFTs, and I’m conscionable not a collector. I americium an artist, I produce.

BCN: Do immoderate of the different System of the Down bandmates similar NFTs?

Serj Tankian: I haven’t really asked them. I americium not definite immoderate of them person bought any. I would uncertainty it, but possibly Shavo (SoaD bass subordinate Shavo Odadjian), due to the fact that he’s precise tech-friendly and versus the different guys. So perchance Shavo, but I americium not sure.

Tankian thinks that however humans travel to an statement connected perceived worth is simply a precise absorbing subject. He said whether it’s gold, diamonds, NFTs, oregon bitcoin that’s valued, it’s each astir subjective valuations.

BCN: Why bash you deliberation NFTs are the “next step” successful presumption of creator creation?

Serj Tankian: I was saying that connection is directed astatine me. Because it gave maine a caller level to beryllium capable to adhd a magnitude of acquisition that I hadn’t been capable to adhd physically. That would beryllium crawling into the virtual abstraction successful a mode that I tin marque the paintings move, marque them dance.

Where successful the carnal space, paintings are connected the partition and they are not dancing, but the music-making you get into them, which is beautiful. But present I americium capable to capable successful that abstraction betwixt the partition and the listener with NFTs. I look guardant to uncovering much spaces, virtual oregon physical, to beryllium capable to interact further with aggregate senses to summation the potency of the artist’s vision.

BCN: Besides NFTs are you into different types of blockchain projects, similar crypto-assets specified arsenic bitcoin?

Serj Tankian: Not really. I don’t cognize sh*t astir it. I americium wholly a naive idiosyncratic erstwhile it comes to blockchain, bitcoin, and immoderate of it. I don’t ain any, to maine [NFT tech] is simply a caller satellite of presenting my art, truthful that’s my in. But I truly don’t cognize overmuch astir blockchain but I person friends who person bought bitcoin aboriginal and they are precise enthused.

BCN: A batch of radical judge blockchain tech tin region parasitic 3rd parties from assorted elements successful our lives. Would you hold with that?

Serj Tankian: I deliberation determination is decidedly information to that. I deliberation it’s a subversive exertion successful a mode oregon possibly it’s not subversive, and possibly it’s an alternative. You deliberation astir the golden modular and however the wealth utilized to beryllium based connected gold. Then they got disconnected the golden modular due to the fact that they couldn’t find capable gold. They expanded beyond that truthful astir currencies are based connected the integrity of the authorities of that nation.

With blockchain and bitcoin you are extracurricular of that system. To maine the full happening is precise interesting, NFTs included, due to the fact that the quality quality agreeing to worth things successful a circumstantial mode is precise interesting.

BCN: Do you program connected doing immoderate much NFT exhibitions featuring your artwork?

Serj Tankian: I do. But I privation to find the adjacent level. I would emotion to bash a carnal assemblage oregon depository exhibition, wherever determination are these physically isolated spaces for each of my paintings and you make adjacent much of this virtual meets the carnal world. Where you tin interact with the aggregate dimensions of creation that see painting, decidedly the euphony surrounding you, possibly immoderate interaction and odor elements, lighting, and bring the virtual satellite into that. Maybe the NFTs could beryllium projected, wrong the existent space, I’m starting to deliberation of aggregate dimensions and the summation of the potency of the creator effect.

What bash you deliberation astir our interrogation with Serj Tankian from System of a Down? What bash you deliberation astir his statement of NFT technology? Let america cognize what you deliberation astir this taxable successful the comments conception below.

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