Matt Hall and John Watkinson are the creative technologists and artists behind projects like CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs, Meebits, and Quine
They met studying computer science in college in the 1990s and have been working on weird projects together since graduating. Together they’ve worked on almost every kind of product, from VR games and chat apps to large scale web infrastructure and genomics analysis. In 2005, they made it official as the creative duo Larva Labs.
With code as their medium, Larva Labs projects tend to start with curiosity and a technical challenge. Each project has been a way of asking those questions in public, on the blockchain, in a way that invites others to participate in a collective experiment.
Their work has found critical recognition within the contemporary art world and crossed over into art auctions, exhibitions, and permanent museum collections at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, MoMA, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the ZKM Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media. They’ve spoken about digital art and the blockchain at MIT Media Lab, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Art Basel Miami, and Christie’s Auction House in London. But most of the time, they’re just two guys working on computers.
