Michael Kutsche

Painter/ Digital Artist /// Sotheby's | PROOF Grails | SuperRare 💎| Feature film Character Designer | @PhantomzeroNFT

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

🚀I'm proud that my newest 1/1 frag·men·tal has been selected for the upcoming Contemporary Discoveries auction at @Sothebys , starting Feb 22nd at 10am HKT.

Excited to be featured alongside legends such as @terrelldom , @brokedidonato and @sleeprNFT 🔥

[Artcrush @Artcrush]

🛩️ART COMPETITION📸 (Worldwide)

Artcrush x @AnimusArt
THEME: AVIATION & FLIGHTS (CONNECT THE WORLD)

Win a Digital Exhibition across major airport hubs totalling 100M pax/year. 14 winners!

To enter:
✅Follow @AnimusArt
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📆Deadline: June 15 - 23:59 CET

[björk @bjork]

i wanted to tell you how we made the visuals for nerve-bloom
i did it with Natalia Kleszczewska and Natalie Liu .

Natalia Kleszczewska is a painter , she painted the creatures and the backgrounds .
Natalie Liu is a computer graphics director , she shaped the digital dimension of the work .
my role in it was a creative director , bringing in the singer-songwriter tradition , where emotionally precise things happen inside the structure of a song . i guided colour pallettes , textures and the environments the music happens in .
to make this possible , during the process , natalia often had to paint many shapes and sizes , different textures and layers of colours . natalie then developed the visuals, designing and overseeing CGI elements , and finding ways for the digital to sit organically alongside Natalia’s world . and include my dramaturgy and creative direction.
we spent 7 months talking and working together , dedicated to relish in the craft of blending hand-made visuals with digital experimentation , 3D design and commit it to physical display technology . a lot of time was spent on researching different tools and techniques to find what worked best at each stage in the song .
like i’ve done before , i wanted to merge old things with tech , giving it soul & a meaning .
to paint a painting is an analog craft but computer programming is craftmanship too !! and both can co-exist ,
.....encouraging each other to bloom even further towards a mutual world .

there is a tradition in pop music for the mucisian to choose a video director . in the art world , this is called “curation” , but where we came from , it was natural that the musician would have strong opinions on what your song needed , which mood , colours , textures & storyline . today this is called “creative director” and it is something we didn’t credit ourselves with in the 90s , but i am starting to understand this better now .

i don´t think of me as a visual artist . because my heart is music . everything i do comes from a sonic point of view .
this is something i have called “sonic symbolism” , sound made visual , a reverse synesthesia .

when you listen to a song for the first time , it is like swallowing a whale , you need to feel the whole musical sculpture in one go .
the structure of a song has always been extremely important to me : what shape it is .
this is part of the craft of being a singer-songwriter

........... we are tune sculpturors .......

since i am talking about the visuals for nerve bloom it is impossible to not mention the avatars in my music videos .
they have replaced the storyteller with anattempt to connect to the more universal element of music , through animation, avatars , puppetry both digital and analog .
for me they are marionettes in a puppet-theatre , hopefully in a similar realm as the jungian archetypes
( which we all can act out the characteristics of ...)

.... i feel nerve-bloom is a natural continuation ....

an animated avatar archetype

singing you a song

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Avatars, animation and archetypes: Nerve Bloom (remix) – on display at Listasafn Íslands / National Gallery of Iceland until September 20th 2026.

The production of this film was made possible with the generous support of #bottegaveneta.

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@OriginalGoldCat @returndotart Congrats! 🥂

[goldcat @OriginalGoldCat]

The Scene

Currently in exhibition in Dresden and soon in exhibition by @returndotart during NFC Lisbon. 🖤💚🤍💔

[Lorna Mills @lm_netwebs]

Death and the Young Man, 2012

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@ronnaldong @TransientLabs 🔥💙

[Ronald @ronnaldong]

Coming soon in June @TransientLabs

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@halecar2 @grelysian 💯 Well spoken

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@TheoChron @SHL0MS 😄👌

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

From now on, whenever some luddite throws a tantrum and blanket-calls something “AI slop” without even looking at it, we can point them to this wonderful experiment by @SHL0MS.

Well played! 😂🤌

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI

please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@Defacedstudio 🔥🔥🔥

[Defaced @Defacedstudio]

A Series of Headaches. Twenty self-portraits drawn from a headache journal.

Details below ↓

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@degens @nyuniversity Congratulations! 🎉

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Elon Musk spent $290 million to elect Trump.

Musk got $512 billion richer since Trump was elected & is now worth $815 billion.

He wants to cut Social Security and Medicare by $500-$700 billion a year.

You’re not angry enough.

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@drdreams @grok @diplo @RickRubin @MrChuckD @WeAreDeLaSoul @RZA @HipHopGoldenAge @DJPrincePaul @djjazzyjeff215 @KillerMike @QtipTheAbstract 🔥🔥🔥

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@kattlatte Love the retro vibe of this!

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

NFTs could have worked out if people actually wanted to own them instead of flipping them. i never spent a splashy amount of money on NFTs but steadily bought lower priced work from artists who i like and wanted to support and own something from and never sold anything. what serious artist wants their work to be traded by mouth breathers foaming about floor prices who couldn’t give a single shit about art? i find it ironic that this new breed of shills are doing the whole “this trad artist who sells million dollar paintings has an NFT series from 2022 that’s only $39! aRbItRaGe!!!!” while at the same time perpetuating the gauche flipper bullshit that crowds out any possibility of any of these artists with the bona fides they revere so much ever minting work again. at the very least accept that you’re a glorified memecoin trader and not an art collector and stop talking out of both sides of your mouth

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@redbeardnft @ronnaldong @nicedayJules Love this

[Michael Kutsche @michaelkutsche]

@nicedayJules Impressive!

[jules @nicedayJules]

Birds https://t.co/ghTsDwZwqK