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Exploring Art Through the Lens of Technology: Interview with Soliman Lopez

Conceptual artist and new media researcher, specializing in science, biotechnology, Web 3.0, interactive and digital art. Founder of Harddiskmuseum, OLEA bio token, and Introns DNA digital entities. Director of Innovation at ESAT (Escuela Superior de Arte y Tecnología). Ideologist of the Terricola Manifesto. What motivated you to explore the

Interview with Alex Estorick: Exploring the Dynamic Intersection of Art and Technology

Alex Estorick is a media theorist who seeks to develop socially progressive approaches to new technologies. As Editor-in-Chief at Right Click Save, he aims to drive critical conversation about blockchain, NFTs, and Web3. He is also Contributing Editor for Art and Technology at Flash Art. Recent curatorial projects include The

Interview with Luba Elliott: Dispelling AI Misconceptions and Exploring the World of AI Art

Luba Elliott is a curator and researcher specialising in AI art. She works to educate and engage the broader public about the recent developments in AI art through talks and exhibitions at venues across the art, business and technology spectrum including Impakt Festival, The Serpentine Galleries, arebyte, ZKM, The Leverhulme

Krista Kim on Techism, Digital Consciousness and Web3 Future

Krista Kim’s Continuum installation was featured in Times Square every midnight in Feb 2021.  She wrote a Metaverse essay for New York Times, and is the first Metaverse artist of the permanent LACMA collection. Krista is a Cultural Leader of the World Economic Forum, and was chosen by Louis

Jacek Sosnowski on Venice Biennale, Polish Pavilion and Data

Jacek Sosnowski is a curator-psychoanalysist based in Warsaw where he runs curatorial practice PRPGND (formerly Galeria Propaganda), curator of Polish Pavilion at 18th Architecture Biennale of La Biennale di Venezia, co-organizer of Warsaw Gallery Weekend. Besides organizing 100+ shows in his own space, he worked with multiple public and private

Dr. Omar Kholeif on the Evolution of Internet Art

Dr. Omar Kholeif is an artist, author, curator, broadcaster, and cultural historian who currently serves as the Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. Their work traversing the contours of art in the age of the internet over the last two decades is the subject of

AC on 6529, Digital Collecting and Web3 Curators

AC is an entrepreneur, collector, and partner with the 6529 NFT Fund. Could you tell us about the team behind 6529? Without revealing anyone's real life identity, when the team had opened up to each other I felt like “woah, what am I doing here?”. I'm

Shumon Basar on Challenges of Building a New Type of Institution Between Physical and Virtual

Shumon Basar is a writer, editor and curator. He is co-author of the books The Extreme Self and The Age of Earthquakes, both with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Other roles include Commissioner of Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum; founding member of Fondazione Prada’s “Thought Council”; Chief

Nadia Taiga on Curation, Dynamic NFTs, and Web3 Art

Nadia Taiga is an art consultant, curator, and producer with thirteen years of experience in the arts sector. She organized multiple Collateral Events at the Venice Biennale of Art and museum exhibitions around the world. She worked as the Project Management Director of Glasstress and Berengo Studio (2010-17), a leading

Ivona Tau on AI and its Impact on Artist's Life

Dr. Ivona Tau is a generative A.I. artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code as a medium in experimental photography and motion painting. Tau comes from the intersection of arts and technology, with 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research.

Exploring AI, Metaverse, and the "Flowers" series with Philip Colbert

Born in Scotland and living and working in London, Colbert is often referred to as the “godson of Andy Warhol”. Colbert has created a global following for his cartoon lobster persona and his masterful hyper pop history paintings. His work powerfully explores the patterns of contemporary digital culture and its

Michael Kutsche on OG artists, Future of Web3 space and new concepts

With an idiosyncratic approach of pairing seemingly contradictory visual elements of centuries-spanning artistic movements as well as mythical creatures, historical figures and pop culture elements, Michael Kutsche creates evocative paintings and animations that feel at once like fragments of anachronistic fairytales but also raise questions about the human condition and

Patrick Amadon on Jerry Saltz, censored artwork in Hong Kong, and Web3 Art

Andrea Misiano: What was your journey into digital art? Patrick Amadon: My background is in art history and I began creating physical artworks after completing university. However, when I discovered social media in 2012, I realized that posting images of oil paintings didn't feel natural on these platforms,

Open Call - Become a Part of The Curated Curatorial Council!

Communal curating is the foundation of our platform and for the development of Web3 Art. That’s why we decided to organise an open call for Digital Art and Museum Curators who are ready to explore and navigate the Web3 space. All successful applicants will be accepted as verified curators

Lukas Amacher on 1of1, Digital Collecting and Institutional Adoption of NFTs

As the Curator and Managing Director of the 1of1 collection, Lukas Amacher runs one of the premier NFT collections in the world, focussing exclusively on digital art. The 1of1 collection has recently been involved in projects with Castello di Rivoli in Italy, the MoMA in New York City or M+

Erick Calderon on Art Blocks, Generative Art, and Digital Curation

Erick Calderon is a Houston, TX based blockchain entrepreneur fully immersed in the NFT space. Erick has dedicated himself to exploring functional use cases for NFT technology, specifically in the art sector. In November of 2020 these explorations culminated in the development and subsequent launch of the generative art NFT

The Curated! 101

Still struggling with navigating Web3 art? Too many platforms, thousands of simultaneous new mints, weak credibility of professional opinions… We feel your pain. “How can we make the digital art experience smooth and comfortable?”, – this was the first question that came to a group of contemporary art professionals who sat

Mat Collishaw on New Technologies Impacting the Art world

Mat Collishaw is one of the most significant and compelling artists in contemporary British art. With an early foundation at Goldsmiths College, Collishaw formed part of the legendary movement of Young British Artists. He was one of 16 young artists who participated in the seminal Freeze exhibition organised by Damien

CROSSLUCID interview on building positivity and care in the digital realm

╭──╯ . . . . .CROSSLUCID. . . . . ╰──╮ is an artist collective, co-founded by Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth in 2018, Shanghai, that engages in highly collaborative cross-disciplinary projects in co-evolution with technology. Their work has been exhibited and showcased  by iMAL, Vellum LA, Epoch.Gallery, The Osaka Museum of Fine Arts, SXSW, AI Biennial Germany,

Anvar Musrepov, Greenhouses, broken links, and Web3 vs white cube

Anvar Musrepov in dialogue with Andrea Misiano reflects on the role of the curator in the Web3 segment and his own creative evolution in the context of blockchain art. Anvar Musrepov is an artist, curator, and editor-in-chief of the online anthology Horizon.tselinny. When did you first hear about blockchains

Samuel Capps, DIY ethos, collaboration, and constantly learning new skills

Samuel Capps, artist and founder of Gossamer Fog, shares thoughts with Anne Duffau from The Curated about the DIY ethos, collaboration, and learning new skills. Samuel Capps is an artist and runs the not-for-profit space Gossamer Fog, based in south London. Hi, Sam. How would you introduce yourself, as an

Tina Ziegler, Programming screens with digital art is not curation

Snejana Krasteva, Chief Curator at LAF (Luminous Art Foundation) spoke with Tina about the present moment and the future of digital art and curating. Tina Ziegler is an expert in brand and web development, art curation, large-scale event management, installation design, event architecture, budgeting, sponsorship relations, team leading, and artist

Rebecca Edwards, her role with artists and her best advice in working with artists

Rebecca Edwards has been the curator at arebyte Gallery since 2016/17, working across emerging media, new technologies and digital culture. She ran arebyte's project space in Clerkenwell in 2017, which offered one exhibition per fortnight of emerging artists from around the UK , and is currently running hotel

Zaiba Jabbar, Creating Opportunities for Female-Identifying Artists

Advice to Young Curators, and Working in the Turbulent Space Where Online and IRL Merge How did you start HERVISIONS and what are your goals? My main goal was to create a working space for female-identifying artists. I always loved post-Internet esthetics, I was drawn to how you can experiment

Giulio Bozzo, Projecting Digital Art On Italian Heritage Monuments

Inciting a Crypto Art Cultural Revolution in Italy, and the Three Main Types of NFT-interested Collectors Why is curation important in the digital art space? Curating for me is fundamental. The past few years have seen a financial and technological phenomenon, but not an artistic and cultural one. If we

Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti, Cofounders of XXnft

On Looking at Work by Remarkable Women Artists and the Dos and Don'ts of Collecting NFT-based Art Why are women still underrepresented in the NFT sector and NFT-based art? One of the main reasons, though not the only one, is that the crypto and NFT community is largely

Wade Wallerstein, Digital Anthropologist and Founder of Silicon Valet

On Breaking Out from Algorithmic Control, NFTs being just Another Transactional Medium, and Seeking Community and Mentorship Can you tell us how and why you started Silicon Valet? I started Silicon Valet because I realized that most of the art that I was consuming was through social media. I rarely

Tina Sauerlaender, Curator in the Physical, Online, and Virtual Spaces

About the Rise of Art in Virtual Spaces, Headsets, Radiance, and No Limits On hybrid curation between physical, online, and virtual spaces There are mainly two different ways to access an exhibition in a virtual space: with your browser or with a VR headset. Of course, the latter is the

Art Advisor Georg Bak: It’s a Buyer’s Market!

On Legal Perspectives and Standards for Collecting NFTs, an Experience Spanning Selling at Art Fairs for a Blue Chip Gallery to Vintage Computer Art and Crypto You previously mentioned your passion for vintage computer art, how did you get started? My interest for vintage computer art sparked when net art

Interview: Serge Poliakov from 4ARTechnologies

An Art Lover, A Collector, and An Investor How did you start collecting? Art is part of my heritage, my father is an artist even though he worked as an architect all his life. But my passion for collecting really started 7 years ago when I received a beautiful artwork

A Handful of NFT-related Projects in Paris Last Week Proves the Digital Medium is Pushing Through its Art Journey in the Background, albeit Timidly

Dancing with NFTs. The seventh edition of African-focused art fair AKAA (Also Known As Africa) presented its first NFT-based project with French-Ivorian visual artist, dancer and photographer Willow Evann. In collaboration with Neuvième Toit, a multidisciplinary artist collective, and gallery 31 Project Paris, the artist used various technologies (NFT, VR,

Traditional Museums Got Their Feet Wet Last Year in the NFT Pool–But They are Not Swimming in it Yet

Mainly focusing on minting NFT copies of their masterpieces, museums tried to profit from the NFT train last year following the extraordinary losses they suffered during the pandemic. To wet our own palate on reflecting about the possibilities the metaverse offers to traditional museums for their fundraising, we start with

Artist Vitória Cribb’s Psychoanalytical Digital Loops

Is the digital a place of liberation from the body? I see cyberspace as a place to recreate and remix narratives by pushing the limits of reality. And also a place to confront the social constructions that tie us in certain patterns. It is a way to liberate my imagination

Celebrity Drops Motivated by FOMO Don’t Guarantee Web3 Spirit, Far From it

NFT, as a product claiming primarily symbolic and cultural capital, entered its active phase after the "big bang" that was the sale of Beeple's work by Christie's in 2021. The colossal sale stirred not only the auction houses, which sensing a new customer quickly

Pauline Foessel on NFTs As Art Prints On Your Walls and Technology That Can Change Every Art Lover Into A Collector

Interview with Pauline Foessel, Founder of Artpool What are the challenges for people encountering NFTs for the first time? Very often, they believe that they need to own and understand crypto and NFTs in order to collect NFT-based art. These are critical barriers to entry. At Artpool, we have created

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Snejana Krasteva with Merlina Rañi A Two-Way Q&A Between Stellar Curators as a Panel Conversation that Questions Everything from Museums to So-Called Creators to Trying to Emulate Physical Spaces Virtually (No Bueno) to Utopia, and even Scarcity Snejana Krasteva, Chief curator at Luminous Art Foundation. Merlina Rañi (São

Predicting the Increasing Popularity of Digital Art for a Bright Technological Future

Interview With Gillian Howard, Founder of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong What is the business model of the Digital Art Fair? We became the pioneers of the Web3 art business when we inaugurated the fair last year in Hong Kong. As do traditional art fairs, we also work with

The Wise Words of Kunsthistoric Slovenian Band Laibach on the CryptoPunks Sensation and its Legendary yet Artless Status.

Do you know of any artist or art project influenced by CryptoPunks? Leaving aside the usual names that appear in the context of the CryptoPunks scene, we ourselves have apparently been unwittingly influenced by this matter. Some time ago we put together a whole universe of characters that could easily

Senior Curator at Luminous Foundation Anne Duffau Handpicks Seven Sci-Fi NFTs from the Realm of Speculative Futures

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them. Okorafor, Who Fears Death. For this inaugural Curator’s Choice in The Curated newsletter, I am paying tribute to

Sylvain Levy, on Collecting as a Family Adventure Since Thirty-Seven Years, Being Timely and Timeless, and the Brutality of Art History

How did your art collecting journey start? My wife Dominique and I started collecting thirty seven years ago. We were mainly interested in the Western production of contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Manolo Valdés, and Antoni Tàpies. Over time, we also turned to design and bought an impressive number

Gallerist Tamuna Arshba: Don’t Let Loud NFT Projects Deter you

Interview by Andrea Misiano What is your perspective on NFT-based art? NFT-based art is an experiment, a new form of expression positioning itself on the art market through the blockchain and depending on that particular community. It is not mature so far, and most of the loud, expensive NFT projects

Xu Zhen Thinks That NFT Culture is the Future

Interview with Xu Zhen by Snejana Krasteva Committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development, XU ZHEN® was founded in 2013 by iconic Chinese artist and curator Xu Zhen (b.1977) as the flagship art brand of MadeIn Company, which he established in Shanghai in 2009. He was also one

Urs Fischer - NFTs, just a Medium? Yes, but one that Mirrors our Collective Subconscious and the Beginning of Something that Needs to Grow

Blue-chip artist Urs Fischer comes from the traditional art world, but he made quite some noise last year when he launched his first NFT series CHAOS #1–#501 on Opensea. For The Curated he speaks to Snejana Krasteva, Chief Curator at Luminous Art Foundation, about lack of actual art in

Andrea Misiano - Boring Art Yacht Club

The Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection burst into the mediatic landscape and became a pop cultural phenomenon nearly overnight. Like most of these collections, it was originally created as a club, uniting members with mutual interests. However, these common interests still remain unclear. It does not seem interesting to

Kerstin Gold - Bored Apes, Salivating at the Web3 Lifestyle

Bored Apes Q&A with Kerstin Gold by Sonia Stubblebine Berlin-based strategy consultant for the art ecosystem, co-founder, and author of the ART+TECH Report on Art NFT Collecting. Gold advises art market entrepreneurs on digital transformation and business model innovation, including start-ups, and connects the fields of art,

Snejana Krasteva - No Art Apes

If we were to discuss the Bored Apes collection by using any critical art theory as a framework, then we can remain silent. The collection has nothing to do with art. We can go further, and safely say that the Apes are everything that is wrong with our society, politically.