The Armor Comes Off

Miranda Marquez hid her drawings for years. Then she made a fantasy epic about the oldest fear there is: being seen.

18 hrs ago • Venus and René

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Coin-Operated Creativity

Why the price of ART rises on a fixed schedule that no board, no DAO, and no insider can bend.

Aug 28 • Jango, Venus, and René Pinnell

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A Living Tradition Can Only Be Carried

The Embodied Mastery Fund backs the last living carriers of the world's great lineages before the knowing dies with them.

Aug 27

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The City That Blooms Once a Year

Jean Hansen’s Ipê community works all year in Florianópolis, then blooms for one month into a pop-up city: a live experiment in internet-era governance.

Aug 26 • René Pinnell and Venus

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The Train You Cannot Leave

Georgy Molodtsov and the Film XR team are turning exile, guilt, and fear into FRUSTRAIN, an XR game where a night train becomes a way back to yourself.

Aug 25 • Venus and René Pinnell

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Culture in Real Time

David Sani “Enrico”, the Abuja photographer behind THE NEW VANGUARD, is building a cinematic archive of Nigerian identity.

Aug 24 • René Pinnell and Venus

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February 2026

The Terminus Fund

If you can start a new company, why not a new country?

Feb 12 • René

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Funding What Matters: Artizen Talks with Kevin Owocki

Founder of Gitcoin, Kevin Owocki has spent the last decade building the financial rails for public goods—open-source software, digital commons, and the…

Feb 4 • René

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January 2026

Fork the Frontier

An invitation to ETH Boulder for explorers of art, science, and technology

Jan 28 • René

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December 2025

I Used to Be Normal but It Drove Me Mad: Artizen Talks with Michel Reilhac

Founding curator of Venice Immersive, Michel has spent decades exploring new art forms at the edge of dance, cinema, and immersive storytelling.

Dec 29, 2025 • René

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Escape Velocity

Episode 8 of OBSESSED: Why starting over (again) was the only way to get Artizen off the ground.

Dec 15, 2025 • René

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Creative Mutants: Artizen Talks with Danielle Strachman

Co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund, Danielle has spent over a decade backing the world’s strangest and brightest young creators.

Dec 10, 2025 • René

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