About MakersPlace:
MakersPlace is the premier fine-art marketplace to discover and buy authentic digital art from the world’s leading artists.
Launched in 2018, MakersPlace helped catapult digital art onto the global stage with the historic sale of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69.3 million in partnership with Christie’s auction house in 2021 – the record price for any digital artwork.
Our mission is simple: to enable a vibrant future for digital creativity.
Featured Artist
Yoshi is a multimedia artist known for his neo-psychedelic style, blending video, GIFs, and print with a strong musical influence. Originally from Yokohama, Japan, Sodeoka moved to New York in the 1990s to study at Pratt Institute and has since become a prominent figure in digital art, merging video feedback, sampling, and soundscapes to create immersive sensory experiences.
His collaborations span iconic bands like Metallica and Tame Impala, editorial work for The New York Times and Wired, and projects for brands like Apple and Nike. Exhibited globally at venues like the Centre Pompidou and Tate Britain, Sodeoka’s work is part of prestigious collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and SFMO
Featured Artist
Rob is a generative artist, game designer, and software developer whose work is often marked by integrating digital mediums and interactive elements.
He first ventured into generative art in the late 1990s and began blockchain development in 2015. After several successful releases on ArtBlocks, including Inspirals and Eccentrics, with styles that explore complex geometric forms and visual rhythm, Dixon was invited to be a featured artist at ArtBlocks Marfa activation in 2023 and part of Proof’s Diamond Exhibition at the Foundry Gallery in Los Angeles that same year.
He is a co-creator of the 2018 CryptoBeasties NFT trading card game and is a contributor to several notable Decentraland projects including the "WonderZone Amusement Park '' and the "WonderMine" game. Dixon was previously part of the Flash Player team at Adobe and has designed and developed titles in the gaming industry including “Monopoly Slots” for Electronic Arts (EA) and “Wheel of Fortune Slots” for Game Show Network (GSN).
Featured Artist
Ivona Tau, PhD is a new media artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code in experimental photography and motion painting. Her goal is to find and evoke emotions through artificially intelligent tools. She creates universally relatable memories by transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through generative neural networks (GAN).
Tau comes from the intersection of arts and technology, with 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research. She was awarded the best award in the Digital Ars 2020 contest for art created with AI, the Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021, and elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by the Women in Tech Foundation.
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Tau’s work has been exhibited widely, including Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE, CAFA, Art Week Shenzhen, Vellum, Bitforms New York, Venus Over Manhattan, The House of Fine Art, Bright Moments Berlin, Christie's New York and Sotheby’s New York.
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Her work has been acquired by ZMK Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany & Francisco Carolinum Linz in Austria.
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Ivona Tau is active in the research community and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She published multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks.
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Ivona Tau is currently represented by MTArt Agency.
Curator & Panelist
Jessica Marinaro (née Davidson) is an art business and creative tech professional with over 17 years of experience in New York City's art scene. She has held roles at top galleries, including James Graham & Sons and Leila Heller Gallery, where as Director, she worked with over 30 contemporary artists, placing their works in prominent collections.
A frequent speaker on the digital art market and art as investment, Jessica has presented for organizations such as Lehigh University Wall Street Council, Montclair Women’s Club, Niio, and Portraits of Women in Web3.
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In 2017, she founded Davidson Art Advisory, offering advisory and acquisition services to private and corporate clients. She also served as lead Art Consultant for Artrendex, a startup focused on AI solutions for the art market. In 2019, she curated New York's first solo exhibition for AI artist AICAN at H.G. Contemporary Gallery.
Jessica has curated exhibitions and presentations at major art fairs including Art Dubai Digital, SCOPE, SPRING/BREAK, and the Frankfurter Buchmesse.
She joined MakersPlace in 2021 as Senior Director and Curator, collaborating with leading digital artists.
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Jessica holds a B.A. in Economics and minors in Philosophy and Museum Studies from Lehigh University, and an M.A. in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
She serves on the Director’s Advisory Council for Lehigh University Art Galleries and various philanthropic boards, including CITYarts and White Wave Dance Company.
