New Landscapes – NFTs and the Museum
The international conference New Landscapes - NFTs and the Museum will critically discuss new collecting strategies and curatorial concepts on digital arts and NFTs in museums, analyse the dynamics of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and Blockchains, and address generative work in analogue and digital space in the museum context.
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In English language. Participation is free of charge.
Registration by 16 April 2023 at symposium@museum-folkwang.essen.de.
The conference will be streamed online on the YouTube channel of the Museum Folkwang.
PROGRAMME
Friday 21 April 2023
9:30–10:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Panel 1 – NFTs: A NEW FIELD FOR MUSEUMS
Chair: Tristan Littlejohn
10:30 Welcome, Peter Gorschlüter (Director, Museum Folkwang) & Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer (Curator Research, Scientific Cooperation and Provenance Research)
11:00 „Beyond the Hype. NFTs and the Intersection of Art and Technology“, Tristan Littlejohn (TrillionaireFlex, Berlin)
11:30 Studio Visit, Harm van den Dorpel (online)
12:00 „A Journey in Acquiring NFTs as a Modern and Contemporary Art Museum“, Philippe Bettinelli (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
12:30 Studio Visit, Auriea Harvey (online)
13:00 Lunch break
Panel 2 – THE POETICS OF NFTS
Chair: Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer
14:00 „NFT, or a poetics of non-Fixed Time“, Annet Dekker (University of Amsterdam)
14:30 Studio Visit, Simon Denny
15:00 „NFT as a Tool for Decolonizing the Museum“, Alexander Koch (Curator, Berlin)
15:30 Coffee Break (on-site)
15:30–15:55 Guided Tour through the Exhibition „RAFAËL ROZENDAAL. Color, Code, Communication“, Rafaël Rozendaal (online)
16:00 „How Art Can Change the NFT Space by Playing the Traitor in the Byzantine Generals Problem“, Domenico Quaranta (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan)
16:30 Studio Visit, Linda Dounia
17:15–17:35 Q&A Rafaël Rozendaal (online), Rafaël Rozendaal & Jan Borreck
17:30 Workshops Tristan Littlejohn, Romy Campe1
18:30 Guided Tour through the Exhibition „RAFAËL ROZENDAAL. Color, Code, Communication“, Rafaël Rozendaal & Thomas Seelig
20:00 Open Dinner, Restaurant edda
Saturday 22 April 2023
10:00–10:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Panel 3 – NFTS AND NEW COLLECTION STRATEGIES
Chair: Thomas Seelig
10:30 „This Contract Is Art/This Contract Is Not Art. New Digital Art & Definitions“, Saskia Draxler (Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin + Cologne)
11:00 Studio Visit Florian Kuhlmann
11:30 „NFTs In Legal Perspective and Challenges From The Field“, Martha Visser (Bergh Stoop & Sanders, Amsterdam)
12:00 „Collecting NFTs – From Certificate to Wallet Portrait“, Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum for American Art, New York) (online)
12:30 Lunch break
Panel 4 – NFTS: MUSEUMS‘ FUTURE?
Chair: Frank Neidig (Flux Collective, Düsseldorf)
13:30 „Beyond the Hype – NFTs & Blockchain Technologies as Pioneers for a Decentralised Museum without Walls“, Ugo Pecoraio (HEK, Basel)
14:00 „Empowering 1 of 1 of X“, Erick Calderon (art blocks, Houston) (online)
14:30 DYOR: Making Sense of the Crypto-Artworld, Nina Röhrs
15:00 Round Table: Saskia Draxler, Christiane Paul, Ugo Pecoraio, Rafaël Rozendaal
(subject to change)
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New Landscapes. NFTs and the Museum am 21/22 APR 2023
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