Eric P. Rhodes

Artist & Designer

Now

🎨 Making art with Primitives (PRIM), an immutable artistic framework.
🎙️ Interviewing artists, builders, and technologists on the Rising Tide podcast.
🏛️ Researching how AI impacts the future of work at Rutgers University.
📝 Occasionally sharing thoughts about art, tech, and society at blog.epr.net.

2-Min Reads

Technourishment: Balancing Art, Technology, and Humanity
Zombie Futurism: Has the Art of Tomorrow Lost Its Soul?
Floriography: Cheap Stickers and Sacred Symbols
Visualizing Emotions: An Artistic Inquiry Into Emotional Vocabulary

2019–2024

Eric's award-winning art studio, Second Realm, pioneered influential crypto-native art movements. He exhibited artwork in NYC, LA, Miami, London, Paris, and Morocco.
Launched The Outer Realm, a Web3 media brand and storytelling platform that covered early crypto art movements and cultural shifts.
Invented one of the first SocialFi protocols, TATR Social, with tokenized incentives for peer-to-peer NFT sharing.