techmental.tez
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I’ve identified as TechMental from Y2K through Web3, having registered techmental.com back in 2000, while being the sole steward of that portal for the next 25 years through typography, art, and music, not to mention a virtual reflection of how I evolved as an artist throughout time. From that experience, one tends to grasp the importance domains play in the “call of action” strategy businesses transact daily.
In 2018 I tokenized techmental.eth my first of many Web3 domain and subsequently in 2022 I added techmental.tez to my portfolio. In 2023 I curated a TezTrash virtual labyrinth in Oncyber, a metaverse platform where five galleries portal into each other, consisting of over 200 pieces from my personal collection in what I feel are the avant-garde Tezos crypto artists from our community.
In late 2024 I was selected for TezTalks Live #99: Artist Spotlight, which was really fun and super humbling, where I usually prefer being behind the lens. A few months later, I led operations and logistics during Art Basel Miami at BitBasel - The Future of the Arts, curating 150 artists’ pieces, including said Tezos artists’, showcased throughout the Sagamore Hotel gallery via digital screens based on size, orientation, style, and blockchain. I vertically aligned acquisitions exceeding $10K in art sales throughout the exhibition, while networking with hundreds of artists, collectors, and visitors from around the world on a daily basis.
My role in promoting domains is a daily task as it is, yet having an affiliate system rewarding the Tezos domain community is a proactive leap forward that I very much intend to support. In the past I’ve voiced my concerns and ideas on how to bring functionality to the registrar, and surprisingly enough, a few of those ideas were implemented as a standard. I believe there’s more to be done to make Tezos domains a sought-after Web3 protocol within the domain industry, and I look forward to working with the .tez community in helping manifest those solutions.