Phosphene is a curated portal offering regenerative NFTs.

Measurable Impact - We will fund and partner with proven high bar nonprofits and companies that are able to achieve measurable Impact with the funding we provide.

Transparency - Funding amounts will be shared with collectors and artists. We will also create and share Impact reports capturing project outcomes.

Future Utility - We are looking to create additional value around NFT ownership. This includes limited edition prints, access to events, and other real-world perks.

Hassle-Free - We will provide great support to artists and collectors to make the setup and purchasing process as easy as possible.

Authenticity - We will invest in technology to ensure that purchased artwork is authentic and verified with artists.

Our Curation

While we value art in it’s myriad of forms and expressions- we curate Phosphene with an eye to both technical and visionary excellence. The artists we choose to work with have spent countless hours honing their technical skills and expanding and deepening their narrative repertoire to create work that is not only a visual or auditory delight but also timeless and meaningful. We seek to provide a space for NFT work that transmits the same gravitas as physical artworks, transmitting real insights into humanity’s condition and our place in the world vs just a visual punch or trendy meme. Our goal is to provide a welcoming, elevating platform for artists as well as a trusted and inspiring portal for passionate collectors who seek to expand and evolve the scope of their collections.

Our Approach to Regenerative NFTs

Our approach to achieving negative carbon emissions through packaging and selling sustainable NFTs includes:

Purchase quality and certified carbon offset credits to offset emissions from the sale.

Capture carbon directly by investing and purchasing capacity from companies like Climeworks.

Support smaller nonprofits focused on creating climate-friendly benefits such as healthy bee/pollinator environments.

Implement technologies over time to reduce emissions while transacting on the blockchain.

Kirsten Anderson
Founder of Roq La Rue Gallery

Co-founder Kirsten Anderson is the founder and curator of the globally renowned gallery Roq La Rue. Founded in 1998 Roq La Rue surfed and helped shape the early days of the Lowbrow, Pop Surrealism, and New Contemporary Art Movements and launched countless new artists in those genres. Today the gallery primarily focuses on mid-career artists whose work features contemporary symbolist narratives as well as eco-surrealism.

In 2004 she authored the book “Pop Surrealism” (Last Gasp) which effectively named a burgeoning new art scene. In addition, Anderson was the Editor At Large and writer for HiFructose Art Magazine from 2007-2014 and has written numerous essays for artist monographs for artists such as Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, Martin Wittfooth, Travis Louie, Femke Hiemstra, and Pictoplasma.

She started Creatura Wildlife Projects in 2016, devoted to the conservation of wildlife around the globe as well as hosting adventurous luxury safaris in East Africa committed to conservation, local communities, and sustainable practices. Creatura is a member of The Long Run Initiative which admits only organizations committed to the highest standards of ethical and eco-conscious tourism.

Arthur Min
Former VP at Vulcan

Co-founder Art Min Builder/Operator/Investor with 20 years working as a senior executive for Fortune 500 companies and startups building and selling AI, data, and infrastructure products. Art is an advisor to the World Health Organization, World Economic Forum, and the Walton Family Foundation. He was recently the VP of Impact at Vulcan Inc. where he led a team to build solutions focused on climate change, coral conservation, illegal fishing, and protected area monitoring.

Our Advisory Board

Johnathan Baillie
Co-Founder of NATURAL STATE

Jonathan Baillie is Co-Founder of NATURAL STATE, an organization that leverages technology to design, implement, and monitor large-scale nature restoration initiatives. Baillie was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at the National Geographic Society where he oversaw grants, impact initiatives, National Geographic Labs, explorer programs, and the international team. Baillie initiated partnerships together raising over $95 million for ground-breaking collaborations across regions and sectors to conserve and monitor the Natural World. He was also the Vice-Chair of the Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. Previous to the National Geographic Society, Baillie served as Director of Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), where he built up and led a portfolio of projects on threatened species and their habitats in over 50 countries. Known for embracing technology, innovation, and collaboration, Baillie founded the EDGE of Existence Programme to conserve evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered species, co-developed a retail activism initiative with Selfridges and over 40 conservation NGOs to support sustainable fisheries, and launched the first AI-driven camera traps for anti-poaching.

Huguette Diakabana

Huguette Diakabana is a global health consultant and a member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Digital Health Technical Advisory Group. She is also a member of Harvard Medical School’s executive programs teaching team, developing a Digital Health leadership course with the International Telecommunications Union Academy, and advising organizations seeking to scale pandemic response programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Huguette works in partnerships with the private sector, governments, civil society organizations, and NGOs to ensure equitable change.

Fiona Garden

Fiona Garden is a London-based music and fashion photographer and artist development strategist. She has worked as a photographer with world-renowned acts such as Rag’n’Bone Man, Grimes, Kanye West, Diplo, Daphne Guinness, Peaches, and countless others. Her work has appeared in Vogue Italia, Rolling Stone, NME, to name a few. Her work is centered around rapport and collaboration with the artist and is committed to working with artists to convey their vision.

Jeff Kramer

Jeff is an innovative and versatile technologist with a diverse background and history of delivering in complex environments. His experience blends expertise in distributed systems, AI, machine learning, computer vision, sensor fusion, and autonomous vehicles. He is also a published author, inventor, founder, and patent holder (robotics and data centers). Before founding Transparent Financial Systems, he was Paul Allen’s technical adviser at Vulcan and a member of Special Projects at Microsoft Research. He holds an M.S. in Robotics from the University of South Florida, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Robert Lee
Climate Action Reserve

As Program Director for the Climate Action Reserve, the premier carbon offset program in North America, Rob directs the implementation of the Reserve’s various offset registry services including the voluntary offset project registry and the Reserve’s role as a California Offset Project Registry. Rob also leads the development, design, and implementation of the Climate Forward program. His responsibilities include overseeing the Reserve's Analytical team which provides technical services and support for offset project development, reporting, verification, and credit issuance and transaction; leading the development and delivery of all Reserve programs; and ensuring effective and efficient processes across the programs. Rob is also responsible for managing the Reserve’s verification accreditation program, which includes managing the Reserve’s relationship with verification bodies and international accreditation bodies.

Rob has been with the Reserve since 2011 serving in various roles within the Programs team and has expertise in forest carbon, methane and waste management, ozone-depleting substances, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and land use and agriculture. Rob received a Master of Environmental Management degree with a concentration in Environmental Economics and Policy from the Nicholas School at Duke University, an International Development Policy Certificate from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and a B.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University.

Steve Marx

Steve Marx is the founder of Site44 and co-creator of Futoshiki World and Word Plus (App Store / Play Store). His past employers include Microsoft, Dropbox, and ConsenSys.

Annie Owens and Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert

Annie Owens and Attaboy are the married co-founders and editors of Hi-Fructose art magazine, one of the most popular art publications in the country.

Daniel "Attaboy" Seifert is an artist and co-founder of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine. With a commitment to creating and curating surprising forms of visual art, he has forged a varied career, often fusing subversion with disconcerting whimsy. His artwork has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums, and also in the form of animation. He has also authored and illustrated several books, and has edited several more, and started his career designing and inventing toys for children. In 2015, Hi-Fructose was honored with a touring exhibition entitled Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, which traveled to the Virginia MOCA, The Akron Art Museum, and the Crocker Art Museum. In 2018, Atta inadvertently created a worldwide art "holiday" called Game of Shrooms, where participants all over the world, create, hide and hunt for original artworks at the same time. he lives in Richmond CA with his wife Annie Owens, a one-eyed tongue-dragging mutt named Ripley, and the ghost of their beloved pug dog Donut.

Anne Owens is a Bay Area-based artist and one-half of Hi-Fructose New Contemporary Magazine as the co-Founder and co-Editor. As an artist, she's shown in various solo and group shows. Her varied background includes a Bachelor of Arts in film, work as a finance analyst at Lawrence Berkeley Labs Environmental Energy Research Division and hike organizer with the Sierra Club's SF Bay Chapter where she hopes to introduce new hikers to the outdoors with an awareness of wilderness stewardship.

Joseph Pallant

Joseph Pallant develops emissions reduction projects and helps smart climate policy succeed. He uses economic tools to keep greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere and develop real, on-the-ground projects that benefit society and the environment. This work led to understanding that the killer climate use case for blockchain was to build much-needed architecture for Paris Agreement carbon markets on Ethereum.

He has been active in the carbon market since 2004, providing project development expertise and strategic direction across private, public, and NGO endeavors. He has developed first-of projects in forestry, fuel switching, and transportation founded CPS Carbon Project Solutions Inc. and Blockchain for Climate Foundation who are “Putting the Paris Agreement on the Blockchain.” A Canada’s Clean50 award winner, Joseph’s work, insight, and advocacy continue to shape the growth of Canada’s low-carbon economy.

Joseph holds an MBA degree from INSEEC, Paris, France, a postgraduate diploma in Latin American Management from the McRae Institute of International Management (Capilano College), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria. He is an avid communicator and has been a featured speaker in academic and business environments. His contributions as a member of the International Emissions Trading Association and participant in half a dozen UN Climate conferences add both context and vision to his work in climate solutions.

Evan Rapoport
Conservation International

Evan is a senior product leader with a long track record of going from idea to launch on very large products and programs across several verticals. He is the Senior Technology Fellow at Conservation International and previously was a Project Lead / Co-Founder at Google X, a Product Manager at Google, and most recently the founding CEO of Oceankind (conservation philanthropy). He has received 15 patents related to photography, computer vision, aquaculture, artificial intelligence (AI), and biometrics.

He has co-created products that have been used by over a billion people, received 15 patents, and published seven peer-reviewed journal articles.

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