Yoshino is a visual artist, writer, entrepreneur, and host of Artist Decoded.

Show Notes:

• Identity and persona
• Leaving the commercial and fashion photography world
• Martial arts
• Exploring the idea of what it means to be an artist
• Living a life of fluidity
• Capitalism
• Growing up Christian
• Spirituality
• Moving to the desert from LA

The Conversation Art Podcast Links:
iTunes
Spotify
Michael Shaw’s IG
The Conversation’s IG

Yoshino’s Links:
yoshinostudios.com
nohwave.co

Fashion and advertising photographer from Singapore turned 3D virtual model creator, Shavonne Wong creates artworks with her virtual models that juxtapose realism and surrealism together, placing the virtual models in scenes that cannot be done with a real human model. She is part of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2020 and has recently done an NFT for the first-ever NFT cover of Vogue.

Show Notes:

• Shavonne’s past fashion photography career
• Romanticizing the struggling artist lifestyle
• Stereotypes and the importance of art
• 3D modeling and the transition into the NFT space
• The social implications of virtual influencers
• Shavonne’s NFT charity work
• The future of NFTs
• The negative aspects of NFT’s & the blockchain
• Criticism and feedback
• Krav Maga

www.artistdecoded.com
www.shavonnewong.com
www.instagram.com/shavonne.wong
www.twitter.com/shavonnewong_

Sarah Zucker is an artist + writer based in Los Angeles.

Her art merges the gorgeous and grotesque through humor, psychedelia, mysticism, and the interplay of cutting edge + obsolete technologies.

She works across mediums, specializing in mixing digital and analog video techniques and the use of VHS. Her GIF art has been viewed over 6.7 billion times on Giphy.

She has been involved in Crypto Art since early 2019, tokenizing single and limited editions of her screen-based artwork on the blockchain. Her NFTs – digital art editions – can currently be found on SuperRare, NiftyGateway, Foundation, KnownOrigin, Hic Et Nunc, and Rarible.

She holds a BA in Theater/Creative Writing for the Media from Northwestern, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU.

Show Notes:

• Sarah’s childhood and developing interest
• NFTs and Crypto Art
• “Wrestling your angels”
• Struggling as an artist
• The call to be an artist
• Theosophy
• Humanitarian contributions in the NFT space
• Identity
• Changing the world
• Dancing with the abyss
• Exploring the concept of suffering
• The societal expectation of immediate rewards

www.sarahzucker.com
www.instagram.com/thesarahshow
www.twitter.com/thesarahshow

CJ Hendry (b. 1988) is a New York-based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Hendry transforms her fascination with contemporary material culture into large-scale, hyper-photorealistic drawings. Cj Hendry’s exhibits aren’t intended to be passively observed but, rather, actively experienced through engaging, fun, and thought-provoking exhibits. For her exhibit Monochrome, Hendry and her team built an entire multi-room “home” inside a warehouse with each room entirely monochrome-colored from floor to ceiling and everything in between. For Rorschach, guests jumped through a gigantic bouncy house maze in order to reach and finally view the impressive series. Each Cj Hendry exhibit, from Miami to Melbourne, draws massive crowds with attendees waiting in line for several hours - and, in the end, everyone leaves more enriched than when they arrived. With her celebrity clientele – and many works in private collections - Hendry’s waitlist is now well over 3,000 collectors with a wait time of up to five years to get their hands on a piece.

Alice Brooks (ASC) is a cinematographer who has photographed award-winning feature films, television shows, and commercials. Her next feature project is director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the hit musical WICKED.

Brooks most recently photographed tick tick…BOOM! for Netflix and Imagine Entertainment, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and produced by Ron Howard.

Her other recent work includes the 2021 summer release of Miranda’s IN THE HEIGHTS directed by Chu. The film’s cinematography received widespread critical acclaim.

Brooks is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600. She became a member of the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers in Oct. 2021.

Show Notes:

• Alice’s start in cinematography 
• Her childhood & the inspiration behind the film, “tick, tick... BOOM!”
• Collaborating with director and long time friend, John Chu
• Having a “Definite Chief Aim”
• The gift of an existential crisis
• The ebbs and flows of the film industry and working as a creative
• Alice being one of 30 women to be accepted into the ASC
• Finding creative kindred spirits
• Following your dreams
• Self-preservation

www.artistdecoded.com
www.alicebrooks.com
www.instagram.com/_alicebrooks_