LA Artist Jules Joins OpenSea Flagship Collection with Birds Collaboration
LA Artist Jules Joins OpenSea Flagship Collection with Birds Collaboration
🎨 When Photography Meets Smart Contracts
Jules, a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, has been added to OpenSea's Flagship Collection with Birds, a new collaborative work with @mungimungimungi.
Background:
- Jules creates onchain art exploring relationships between humans, nature, and technology
- Entered NFT space in 2021
- Known for blending analog photography with smart contract functionality
Notable Previous Work:
- The Flowers Project (2022): 50 1-of-1 photographs with custom CRT circuit-bending
- Dynamic NFTs that glitch when Ethereum price drops
- Objective Theory (2023-2025) and Everything All Together (2024)
- Regular 24 Hours of Art livestream events
Birds Collection:
- Created in collaboration with @mungimungimungi
- Unveiled during a Los Angeles livestream
- Continues Jules' approach of treating camera, code, and blockchain as unified tools
- Maintains focus on themes of time, beauty, and place
The Flagship Collection inclusion recognizes Jules' consistent work at the intersection of photography and code.
Jules is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist who has spent his life behind the lens — making original films, photography, and motion design for fashion brands, musicians, and tech companies before turning to onchain art to explore the relationship between humans, nature,
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