2023
Else Gallery, CSU Sacramento
Modal Logic : □ : It is necessary that …
(https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-epistemology/)
(https://soundcloud.com/blackaudiomonster/modality-of-breath?
in=blackaudiomonster/sets/kiss-thedrone&si=d8f9c4a2783a4aab8753eb9f68f1958c&utm_source=clipboard
&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
March 12, 2023, 10:01:59AM
Slap, synthetic polymer pigment, urethane, glitter on canvas, 2023
(Exhibited in the Verge Biennial, The First 10 Years, 2023)
Dad Floats the Ether, synthetic polymer pigment, urethane, glitter on canvas, 2023
CTRL, ALT, DEL, synthetic polymer pigment, urethane, glitter on canvas, 2023
Battle of the Milk Wars, synthetic polymer pigment, urethane, glitter on canvas, 2023
House of the Good Dog� ❤ � , installation documentation, CSU Sacramento, Else Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Work Role, synthetic polymer pigment, urethane, glitter on canvas, 2023
Sign my Name, synthetic polymer pigment, urethane, glitter on canvas, 2023
(Exhibited at City Hall, Mayor Steinberg’s Art Gallery, July/August 2023)
In 2021, Tavarus Blackmonster held a solo exhibition entitled Dad Life. The exhibit brought together Fine Art paintings and an interactive code that linked to the Music release, Love in Your Eyes. O Dad was purchased by the Crocker Art Museum prior to the Opening of the exhibit. After the exhibit closed, Tavarus Blackmonster stopped painting and dedicated the next year to Sound Art, Improvisation, Digital Assets and NFT Smart Contract Deployment.
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1. Can’t hear Voice
2. Space Time (4th Dim)
3. No Tracking
4. No Lyrics
5. 1st Try
6. Meta
7. 2%
(flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time. It requires a high level of concentration; however, it should be effortless.
“Peak Human Performance”)
-Positive Psychology, Mihálay Csíkszentimihályi, 1970
Only Thing, improvisation and endurance art, HD Video, 02:00 minutes, 2023
Shooting took place Sunday March, 12, 2023 @ 10:01 AM - 1:10 PM
Project schedule:
In the Silver Light, 3/12/23 @ 10:01 AM Verge Center for the Arts
Good Dog, 3/12/23 @10:12 AM Verge Center for the Arts
Real Good Dad, 3/12/23 @ 10:46 AM Verge Center for the Arts
Lonely is the Fool, 3/12/23 @ 10:50 AM Verge Center for the Arts
Puzzle in my Mind, 3/12/23 @ 10:56 AM Verge Center for the Arts
Moments, 3/12/23 @ 1:10 PM Verge Center for the Arts
Equipment
Hardware:
Apple iPhone 13, Apple audio adapter, Apple Mac Book Pro 16”, Razer Blackshark V.2 (white edition) 2-in-2-out headset
Software: Voloco.app
Licensors: Pond5 https://pond5.com
Publication Date: 3/31/2023
Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/blackmonster
Marketing Publication Date: 3/31/2023
Issuu
https://issuu.com/tavarusblackmonster/docs/house_of_the_good_dog
House of the Good Dog, coincides with the launch of 18lackJack Blackmonster, a character and naming project by the Artist and published at tavarusblackmonart.com
Some thing in the night, improvisation and endurance art, original composition, HD video, 02:53 minutes, 2023, published by Blackmonster Music on the Angel of the Mind, LP
Tavarus Blackmonster, Some thing in the night, @TavarusVEVO
In Late 2021, Tavarus Blackmonster completes and publishes the work Me & Karen. Previous releases were produced using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and 2-in-2-out Audio Interface. This would be the last work created using this method.
Crypto-ID
Artist Tavarus Blackmonster at home recording 18, from the Album Crypt-ID, LP produced by Blackmonster Music, released August 2023
So Bad, from Blackmonster Sound Stories, 25 improvised endurance artworks and original compositions. November 2021
Kurt Rohde, UC DAVIS
Sam Nichols, UC DAVIS
Eyvind Kang, Cal Arts
Leila Adu, NYU
Tavarus Blackmonster volunteers for the Sacramento Music Census as a Community Consultant, launches Blackmonster Music in 2022, a Music Publishing Subsidiary of Tavarus Blackmon Art LLP
https://issuu.com/home/published/ 18lackmonster_music-web
None Higher, improvisation and endurance art, HD Video, 01:46 minutes, 2023
Creative Capital, Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact for Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image
Cryptographic Lover❤ , NFT Collection, Cover
Crypt, NFT, Cryptographic Lover❤
Blackmonster Sound Stories V Creep, NFT Collection, Photographs by Muzi Li Rowe
Photographed at Verge Center for the Arts Studio 5
Between 2013 and 2015 the Artist, Tavarus Blackmonster, wrote and completed the MA Thesis project, The Politics of the Cartoon and Contemporary Art, under the direction of Professor's Ian Harvey and Andrew Connelly at CSU Sacramento. The written thesis is a 35 page, hardbound, Master's publication, property the Artist and CSU Sacramento and also published on Scholarworks. In addition to the written work, the thesis was developed in two more areas: AI text-to-speech Sound Art using Natural Reader.app and, website development, which at the time was front-ended on Adobe Muse. In 2015 the thesis project was developed here:
AwedioCodex and also published on Soundcloud.
The project also includes the work Capitalist Americans. This would be the second large-format text-tospeech work by the Artist, who’s collaborative repertoire includes Bruce, Karen, Leika and Fiona.
The final element of the Master's Thesis was registering the U.S. Copyright for Capitalist Americans. This is an AI text-to-speech recitation of the copyright registration and original work of Art. The intention, in 2015, was that playing the interactive file attached to the web button would release and therefore prove registration of the U.S. Copyright. The copyright claims Right over Text-To-Speech Rap (Hip-Hop) created with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Now, in 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is spanning vastly across industries. Also, the responsibility of such Sound Classes as Rap and Hip-Hop must be responsibly developed by Scholars invested in the equitable resource and cultural heritage inherent with the technology. Further, a simple proxy does not un-write our American history. A history made rich on the dissolution, disbandment and disenfranchisement of others.
The Politics of the Cartoon and CONTEMPORARY ART
In 2017, The Politics of the Cartoon and Contemporary Art was developed at Blackmonstereview. This gave the Artist room to park their Thesis and develop Sound Experiments on AwedioCodex. Each of these sites and projects are still live.
AwedioCodex, interactive website and ECO Registration container AWE-DIO CODEX (Audiocodex)
AwedioCodex, interactive website and ECO Registration container, 2015-2017 AwedioCodex, interactive media player,
Play Button, first interactive asset created by the Artist, FAVICON for Tavarus Blackmon Art.com, USPTO Registration
ASPP
(Apple Services Performance Partner Program)
VerisArt
(Shopify/ NFT Integration)
KYC
(Know Your Customer/ Lively Selfie)
CAI
(Content Authenticity Initiative)
CHAT-GPT
Generative AI
(Night Cafe Studio/ Google Generative AI Search)
FinTech
blackmonster-animated-digi.art, BAD, Distributed Application and Community Marketplace
NFT Collections and tokens created using marketplace mining (Ethereum mining) Consensys Mechanism. Native to the Rarible Marketplace, Rarible Protocol and participant in the Rarible Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
Epic NFT Collector: Top 1% in NFT Transactions
Deployer: Person or Contract that Deploys a Smart Contracts
MultiSig Owner: Addresses described as an owner of a Gnosis Safe Contract
Gnosis Safe Creator
DEX Trader: Made trades on decentralized exchanges
EIP 1559 USER: Uses the updated fee market mechanism introduced in the London Ethereum hard fork (September 15, 2022)
Whitepaper: Advanced Report that outlines a Problem and Solution
Describe: Technology (Ethereum Layer 1, Blockchain Network | Prefix: 0x)
Advise: Use case
(Inform audience how to use Distributed Application)
List:
Public offering
(Collections made available and Token Name (ticker)
Outline:
Tokenomics
(Ie: Inflationary/deflationary asset + Market Rate)
High Liquid Velocity
High Liquidity, Low Volatility
Veblen Good Demand increases as price increases
https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/regional/na/us/Solutions/
documents/visa-nft-whitepaper.pdf
Think outside of the box, but inside the rules.
At the Office of Financial Technology Innovation, we help FinTech businesses grow and develop in ways that are both responsible and responsive. We help industry understand DFPI expectations. Our doors (and ears) are open. Come talk to us!
C. Tetreault, Deputy Commissioner, OFTI
A. Wright, Senior Counsel, DFPI
An interagency Web3, Crypto Asset and Blockchain Progress Report to the Governor of California
https://dfpi.ca.gov/2022/06/01/dfpi-seeks-publiccomment-on-oversight-of-crypto-asset-relatedfinancial-products-and-services-under-the-californiaconsumer-financial-protection-law/
Cointelegraph, CA DMV to digitize car title management system via Tezos, January 28, 2023
Tezos is a Proof-of-Stake, Layer 2, Network
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ california-dmv-to-digitize-car-titlemanagement-system-via-tezos
Blackmon, CA DMV, mDL (Mobile Driver’s License), Issued August 2023
Between 2021 and 2023 there have been six Public Requests for Comments related to NFTs, Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)/USCO/USPTO/IRS/ the TREASURY and the DFPI)
November 7, 8, 2023
“Based on existing authority as well as changes to the applicable tax law made by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, these proposed regulations would require brokers, including digital asset trading platforms, digital asset payment processors, and certain digital asset hosted wallets, to file information returns, and furnish payee statements, on dispositions of digital assets effected for customers in certain sale or exchange transactions. These proposed regulations would also require real estate reporting persons, who are treated as brokers with respect to reportable real estate transactions, to include on filed information returns and furnished payee statements the fair market value of digital asset consideration received by real estate sellers in reportable real estate transactions. Additionally, these real estate reporting persons would also be required to file information returns and furnish payee statements with respect to real estate purchasers who use digital assets to acquire real estate in these transactions.”
House of the Good Dog, installation documentation, CSU Sacramento, Else Gallery, Sacramento, CA
House of the Good Dog, installation documentation, CSU Sacramento, Else Gallery, Sacramento, CA
House of the Good Dog, installation documentation, CSU Sacramento, Else Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Dad Life, installation documentation, Sacramento, CA
(Photography by Richard Gilles, Axis Gallery)
Material Handling, Curatorial Project, Sacramento, CA Axis Gallery
A Joy Unexpected, Curatorial Project, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
(Photography by Graham Holoch)
Flor Mort, Curatorial Project, Sacramento, CA
Axis Gallery
The Resistant Gesture, Curatorial Project, Sacramento, CA Axis Gallery
Class Trip, Sea of Fertility, Looking at the Invisible, Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Sator Sator (From the Sator Square)
https://soundcloud.com/blackaudiomonster/sator-sator?in=blackaudiomonster/sets/ articulaudible&si=c5b1f9904ccb4640a4ba3e7f22b81743&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
The Blue Room, Headlands Center for the Arts, Building 961
Beats and Feels, site specific installations and performance
https://vimeo.com/blackmonster/beats-and-feels?share=copy
The Red Room, site specific installation and Motion Picture, UCDavis, TB-9, Studio 1
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theredroom
Work Hurt, Present Tense, Jan and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UCDavis, 2018
