River Davis
From creative directing across twelve countries to co-founding ntent, River Davis, also known as Dr.Banner, the American multimedia artist and creative director based in Berlin, presents work that explores the evolution of consciousness and its impact on culture. His work spans multiple mediums, from physical prints and paintings to digital installations. He is one of the youngest artists to ever produce art for the Venet Foundation's annual summer exhibition in 2023.
Affirmations, 2022
Collodion Process
f|or3ssence
n3o v|ta
EVERYTHING IS FINE KEEP SWIPING / HOW TO CAGE A WAGGING TAIL
Mint Link
Sculpture, 3D Scan, Animation
This NFT collection digitizes a few of the physical pieces from the exhibition EVERYTHING IS FINE KEEP SWIPING / HOW TO CAGE A WAGGING TAIL, 2021, created by artist Davey Leavitt. The series captures the ever increasing freedom of the emerging digital experience. When a physical chair can gallop in solid gold, and be sat upon in the metaverse, anything is possible.
Origins, Visual Rhetoric, Global Creative Design.
Prior to a full-time career in art and web3, Dr. Banner (an environmental activist) spent 8 years as an international creative director building teams and producing photo-video campaigns for global brands, with a sustainable business model, across Asia, Europe, and the United States, working to change the global business paradigm from “profit over people” to “people over profit.” Dr. Banner has also been a mental health advocate teaching meditation and consent communication practices at events and festivals across 12 countries.
Dr. Banner is a vocal voice in the Digital Fine Art & NFT communities working with artists in both the web3 and traditional spaces. He is actively featured on multiple conference stages, as a master of ceremonies, moderating and contributing to panels, podcasts, and YouTube channels, where he speaks as a public voice on art culture, sustainability, inclusion, equality, decentralization, and the expansion of smart contract-based art.
Banner is currently producing, in collaboration with Bright Moments, the Friends of the Artist [Creators Workspace] event series and the special edition Friends of the Artist [Art Experience] event series.
A few of Banner’s notable accomplishments:
- Co-Founder of ntent.art, a digital art and immersive experience collective and smart contract platform for generative and dynamic art.
- Co-Creator of ntent.io, a generative video platform used to create ntent.art’s sold-out genesis project “n30 v|ta,” the first-ever generative animated photography NFT collection and other projects including Floressence, & Collodion Process.
- Projects: n3o v|ta, OBJEKTS, Floressence, Collodion Process, Displaced Anger, Petrification of Water.
SELECTED PROJECTS
- Floressence 2022
- Collodion Process 2022
- Displaced Anger 2022
- Petrification of Water 2022
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Master of Ceremonies NFT Berlin 2022
- Speaker NFT Berlin 2022
- Speaker SUGOI NFT NYC 2022
- Speaker Decentral Conference Art Basel Miami 2021
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- One Drop, Into the Metaverse: Spatial, Nyc, NY 2022
- Technique X WeDream Auction House Nyc, NY 2022
- ENVISIONARY ART MUSEUM, Boom, Portugal 2022
- GEKAUFTE LIEBE Vernessage Berlin Germany 2022
Speaking Links
Storytelling and Generative Art - TokenHausBerlin
Community Building Around Generative Art - TokenHausBerlin
Generative Art - Tapping into your emergent chaos - TokenHausBerlin
How to become a Generative Artist - TokenHausBerlin
NFTBERLIN 2022 Panel “Why Web3 Matters”
The ntent.show episodes 1-24
