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Lightning Fields: Blockchains, NFTs, and the Future of Digital Arts Practice
Type: ACM SIGGRAPH Village Talk
Coordinated by: Johannes DeYoung – Melentie Pandilovski
Event Date and Time: 9 August 2023 : 9:00 – 10am PDT
Description:

Non-fungible tokens and blockchain technologies represent just a few of the contemporary technologies that are radically reshaping digital arts practice, curation, and exchange. This session offers critical, philosophical, and practical perspectives of the current digital arts landscape, including NFTs, blockchains, and the current state of digital arts provenance, exchange, and commerce. Presentations and discussion will center upon the practicalities, possibilities, and consequences of such technologies in a rapidly transforming media arts landscape.

Additional Organizer:

Gustavo Rincon – University of Santa Barbara, Allosphere Lab

Location:
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California
Coordinators(s):
Johannes DeYoung

Johannes DeYoung is an internationally recognized artist who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. His moving-image works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt en Main, Germany; Hesse Flatow (Crush Curatorial), Jeff Bailey Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, Interstate Projects, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1 Print Studio, New York, NY; as well as numerous festival screenings in countries such as Australia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, and Vietnam. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal. DeYoung is appointed Associate Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at Yale University School of Art (2008—2018), where he was appointed Senior Critic and Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design.

Melentie Pandilovski

Melentie Pandilovski is an Artistic Director who has curated over 200 projects. His roles include: Creative Producer at JOLT Arts in Melbourne, Australia; Director of Riddoch Art Gallery; Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre; Director/Curator of SEAFair. He was Editor of Art in the Biotech Era; Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetic Theories Revisited. He published Perspectives on Living and Thinking Vectors of the Anthropocene, Found Sci; Arts & Science – the Intersection (re)engineered inWiley Blackwell; The Phenomenology of (Non)Habitual Spaces for the Bioarts in Catalyst Book Series (2017).