Collaborators

Nothing here was built alone. People whose work is woven into mine, roughly in the order they entered the story. See also Ventures.

Robert Wilson

Avant-garde theater director and mentor. Cast Seth at fourteen; Seth later served as his archivist at the Byrd Hoffman Foundation.

William Forsythe

Choreographer. Collaborated on “Improvisation Technologies,” a landmark digital documentation of his method (1993).

Clay Shirky

CTO of SiteSpecific in its founding years; later a leading thinker on the social web.

Fred Wilson

Venture capitalist who brought Seth in as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Flatiron Partners.

Lewis Ranieri

Wall Street pioneer; backer and collaborator on Root Markets.

Tony Berkman

Co-founder of Majestic Research.

Billy Chasen

Co-founder of Stickybits and Turntable.fm; built the original prototype.

Phil Mohun

Partner in founding Bright Moments in Venice Beach.

Qian Qian

Designer of the CryptoVenetians pixel art that seeded the Bright Moments CryptoCitizens.

Joost Elffers

Dutch designer and publisher; a formative influence on Seth’s sense of visual communication.

Kristi Coronado

Co-creator of SOLIENNE, the autonomous artist.

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Generative artist and blacksmith; in conversation with Seth at Art Basel 2026 — “Craft in the Age of AI.”

Ameesia Marold

Co-led the “Automata” exhibition at the Digital Art Mile, Basel (2025).