Brinkley Warren

Over two decades his practice has taken the form of sensor-based public installations, telematic performance, social practice projects, geo-locative augmented reality platforms, binaural sound compositions, a legally authenticated claim to the observable universe, and the world’s first giant robot fighting league. He has used legal instruments, government authentication processes, blockchain architecture, and venture capital infrastructure with the same intentionality that a painter uses paint, working in a tradition that understands entrepreneurship not as a compromise with artistic vision but as its fullest possible expression. He has recorded over three hundred musicians, including five Grammy winners, and built one of the earliest live music podcasts in the world, distributing professional concert recordings before the medium had a name for what it was doing. He has written screenplays, novels, and dozens of songs, one of which he transformed into a lifestyle brand.

As co-founder of MegaBots, he brought giant human-piloted fighting robots from sci-fi fantasy to Guinness World Record. As a faculty member and startup advisor at Singularity University, he taught exponential entrepreneurship to executives, founders, and government leaders. As a teacher at Design Tech High School, he taught the first virtual reality and blockchain curriculum in a U.S. public high school.

Art Morph Atlas is the practicum he wishes someone had handed him on the first day of art school.