Coldie — stereoscopic-3D and kinetic artist.

AGI has arrived

Tech Epochalypse

Interactive kinetic 3D portraits of the figures shaping the age of AI — five overlords, one network. Drag, rotate, and layer the living portraits to compose your own iteration, each captured on-chain.

Enter the Tech Epochalypse ↗ Meet the overlords

Current Exhibition

Kinetic 3D Collage

Hand-fabricated 3D collage and magnetic portraits — on view and available now at Eterno Gallery, Lisbon.

About the kinetic work

Tech Epochalypse: Overlord Mashup by Coldie — print 1 of 42, at Eterno Gallery

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At Eterno Gallery

Tech Epochalypse: Overlord Mashup

A series of 1/1 giclée prints by Coldie — signed, on Canson Arches BFK Rives paper, 2026.

View on Eterno

Current series

Filthy Fiat

Filthy Fiat is an art project by Coldie that transforms U.S. dollar bills he buried — and that were destroyed by mold — into a commentary on the fragility and debasement of fiat currency.

In 2020, living in a wildfire-prone mountain town, Coldie buried a box that held two hundred one-dollar bills. Two years later he exhumed it to find the cash had fused into a solid brick of mold — unspendable. Those same buried bills form the facial features of the Christie’s piece Warren Buffett — Filthy Fiat.

Explore the Filthy Fiat project ↗ Read the full story

The Thesis

Fooling the eye, then rewarding it.

My work begins in experience. When something profound happens to me, my response is to create. I have found the key is staying open to the feeling in those moments, capturing the essence of that magic and holding it inside the work. From there it becomes a puzzle to decode, one that unfolds into an experience you can step inside.

Touch the Art

Kinetic 3D Collage

Kinetic magnetic portraits

Physical, hand-arranged 3D portraits the viewer can rearrange. The first sold at Christie’s; current work is at Eterno Gallery, Lisbon.

The Day We've All Been Waiting For — a red/cyan anaglyph of an astronaut ascending toward the moon beneath a HODL billboard over a city skyline. View through red/blue 3D glasses.
Grab your red/blue 3D glasses

Minted · R.A.R.E. Art Labs · Ethereum · on-chain record [link to add]

Pioneer, on-chain

The first stereoscopic artwork on a blockchain.

On May 7, 2018, Coldie minted The Day We've All Been Waiting For — the first stereoscopic artwork recorded on a blockchain. There was no collector market for it yet; that was the point. He made it to prove that peer-to-peer ownership of digital art was real, and that it pointed to the future of the digital economy.

Tokenized on Ethereum through R.A.R.E. Art Labs, it was a bet that if artists tested the technology early, names like Shepard Fairey and Banksy would eventually follow. Fairey has.

The work you see at the top of this page is this one, in motion. Here it is explained: true 3D, the receipt, and the story. The astronaut ascends toward the moon beneath a HODL billboard — hold on for dear life — over the artist’s own photographs of Los Angeles and San Francisco, the two cities that shaped his twenties and thirties.

Full wall text & provenance

Front Row 3D — 2009–2018

A decade shooting live music in stereoscopic 3D.

Coldie photographed rock and hip-hop in real depth with a camera he built himself, serving as the official 3D photographer of Coachella in 2009 and 2010 — believing a technology that didn’t yet exist would one day render the images in full dimensional color. In 2021, viewing the archive in VR for the first time, that conviction was confirmed.

Coachella 2010 3D Concert Photography

Them Crooked Vultures at Coachella 2010, shot in stereoscopic 3D by Coldie.

Them Crooked Vultures Coachella 2010 · shot in 3D by Coldie

In his own words

A life spent capturing depth, and trusting the technology would catch up.

The first interview

Featuring stereoscopic 3D artwork including Front Row 3D: Photography from the Coachella Music Festival, and works that would later be tokenized as digital works.

  1. 01 Raoul Pal · The Journey Man

    Digital Art’s Next Frontier

    A deep dive into the evolution of digital art: from early stereoscopic experiments and the birth of on-chain art to work blending AI, physical installations, touchscreens, and blockchain-native ownership.

  2. 02 Studio visit · Northern California

    Coldie and the NFT Gold Rush

    Coldie minted his first work on-chain via SuperRare in 2018 and became one of the most prolific digital artists in the space, with mixed-media portraits of figures including Edward Snowden, Vitalik Buterin, and John McAfee.

  3. 03 NFT Origin Stories

    Origin Stories #59

    Coldie traces his obsession with depth: his first stereoscopic gel transfer, early on-chain experiments, the Genesis piece, and the light-painting and portrait series that followed.

  4. 04 NFT Drop Spotlight

    Tech Epochalypse

    A close look at Coldie’s Tech Epochalypse collection and the ideas behind it.

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Two ways to own the work.

Blockchain here is a provenance feature — verifiable authenticity and permanent, public record — not a gimmick.

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Lenticular prints and kinetic sculptures.

Price on request

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Digital editions.

Transparent on-chain pricing

  • Permanent, public provenance
  • Open, verifiable ownership history
  • Editions across the body of work
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Goes to the artist and Eterno Gallery, Lisbon. Prefer email? studio@coldie3d.com

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