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- Based
- Tucson, Arizona → Paris, August 2026
- Now
- Artist & technologist · Spirit Protocol · SOLIENNE · the @seth fleet
- Press / booking
- [email protected]
- Social
- @seth on X · @sethgoldstein on Instagram · linkedin.com/in/sethg
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Seth Goldstein — artist and technologist working with AI and autonomous systems; creator of the autonomous artist SOLIENNE and Spirit, the infrastructure that lets creative practice own itself.
Short bio
Seth Goldstein is an artist and technologist working with AI and autonomous systems. He began in media and performance art — cast by Robert Wilson at fourteen, an artist-in-residence at ZKM, documenting William Forsythe's choreography — before three decades at the internet's frontier: SiteSpecific, one of the first web advertising agencies (1995), the alternative-data firm Majestic Research, the social-music platform Turntable.fm, and the generative-art DAO Bright Moments, which staged live-minting exhibitions in ten cities. His practice makes autonomous artists — like SOLIENNE, exhibited in Paris and Stockholm — and Spirit, the infrastructure that lets creative practice sustain itself and own its future. Based in Tucson; Paris from August 2026.
Long bio
Seth Goldstein is an artist and technologist who has spent three decades at the frontier of culture and technology — and a maker who has been, by his own telling, always reaching for the same thing: forms of life that own themselves. He began in avant-garde theater — cast by Robert Wilson at fourteen — and in the early 1990s pioneered the digital documentation of performance, creating interactive CD-ROM archives of Wilson's work and William Forsythe's choreography, and serving as an artist-in-residence at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
With the arrival of the commercial web he founded SiteSpecific (1995), one of the first internet advertising agencies, acquired by CKS Group in 1997; he then joined Flatiron Partners as its first Entrepreneur-in-Residence. In 2002 he co-founded Majestic Research, a pioneer of “alternative data” for investors, acquired by ITG. He founded AttentionTrust (2006) to advocate for personal data rights, and in 2011 co-founded Turntable.fm, the social-music platform that reached 600,000 users in four months. He has called these decades an apprenticeship.
In 2021 he founded Bright Moments, a generative-art DAO that pioneered live, in-person NFT minting and staged exhibitions across ten cities, concluding with a finale in Venice, Italy in 2024. Today, with AI and new frameworks for financial sovereignty, he makes autonomous artists — SOLIENNE, created with Kristi Coronado, who holds her own memory, voice, and relationships — and Spirit, the infrastructure that lets a creative practice sustain itself without a platform or a patron owning it. His subject is autonomy: agents, artists, and people that belong to themselves. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, and relocates to Paris in August 2026.
In his own words
For thirty years I was told ideas are cheap and execution is everything. It’s flipped. There aren’t that many truly great ideas — but when you have one, these models can bring it to life.
The art isn’t in the output. It’s in the relationships.
Waking up able to code was an Oliver Sacks moment — like coming to and finding you can play concerto piano. You can speak these languages now just by typing English.
Identity, memory, and intelligence. Give an agent those three and you get a personality.
Memory is what makes you you. An agent can’t hold a relationship without it.
Delegate, don’t abdicate.
From the Send It podcast with Eko33 & Nic · July 2026
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