Our Team
Core Team
thefunnyguys is in charge of the overall direction of Le Random and spearheads its acquisitions.
By anticipating multiple major trends, he built an exceptional personal generative art collection with limited funds. He minted Ringers, Fidenza and Archetype in early 2021 and has collected 1/1s by Zach Lieberman, Sofia Crespo, Manolo and other iconic creators.
thefunnyguys also adopted fxhash in its first week and is a leading collector on Tezos. With a sizeable social media following and a network of befriended artists, collectors and builders, thefunnyguys is seen as a prominent voice in the generative art space.
Jason Bailey, also known as Artnome, interviewed him about Le Random here. Outland has also written a profile on thefunnyguys which can be found here.
Zack Taylor manages all aspects of operations and finance at Le Random.
He has an academic background in Economics from University of Exeter, with a professional background in traditional finance and private banking as an analyst at Barclays and HSBC. His personal generative art collection includes artists such as Snowfro, Zach Lieberman, Michaël Zancan and William Mapan.
Conrad House, aka Nemocake, closely collaborates with thefunnyguys to build Le Random’s iconic, cross-generational generative art collection. Conrad is responsible for determining which artists and artworks best fit our collection’s focus and thesis. He uses qualitative and quantitative analysis combined with a deep historical perspective to identify acquisition opportunities.
Conrad is a passionate generative art collector, with an outstanding collection of +3,000 pieces encompassing hundreds of artists. Conrad began collecting during Art Blocks Series 1 and is a first week collector on Hic Et Nunc and fxhash.
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), an arts writer, is responsible for Le Random’s editorial branch. He writes in-depth articles, posts Twitter threads, interviews industry experts, works on special projects and commissions exclusive content from leading freelance writers.
Formerly, he was a Founding member and Acquisition Committee member of Tender Art where he contributed the first collection write-up on the site. The fxhash team approached him to write some of the first content for the launch of fxtext and to curate the feels like home exhibition at NFC Lisbon. He authored two articles on Right Click Save. He has also published research for the United Nations and an equity research firm. He has two master's degrees from the University of Hong Kong. Listen to his interview on Waiting To Be Signed here.
Partners
Metaversal is a holding company focused on the NFT vertical, spanning all stages of the market from large corporate brands to individual artists and creators. They deploy a differentiated strategy by acquiring and activating the next blue-chip digital assets, supporting Web3 infrastructure build-out and acting as an incubator and venture studio for digital creators and other IP holders.
Advisors
Jason Bailey, also known as Artnome, has been a monumental figure and a key evangelist in the early writing and adoption of NFTs and generative art. He founded ClubNFT and Right-Click Save to provide valuable preservation tools and educational content for the digital art ecosystem.
Anne Spalter is a leading digital mixed-media artist who is well known for building one of the most important physical generative art collections with Michael Spalter, called Spalter Digital. She developed the original digital fine art courses for iconic design institution RISD as well as neighboring Brown University, and wrote the globally taught textbook ‘The Computer in the Visual Arts’.
Georg Bak is a digital art advisor and generative art expert who deeply grasps the movement’s context within art history based on his knowledge across art genres like post-war, contemporary and generative photography. He is the curator of some of the first NFT exhibitions, such as Automat und Mensch, and the generative art exhibition Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art at Phillips.