IKLECTIK presents,
IKLECTIK TALKS – #1
‘NFTs – Art as a token?’
Wednesday 11 May 2022 | 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Tickets: £6 General Admission https://buytickets.at/iklectik/690029
First in the series, this talk will bring together researchers and artists approaching the phenomenon that are NFTs from the perspective of social-sciences and from various angles such as psychology of ownership, value-factors/finance, rarity, environmental costs and artistic merit. It is aimed to create debate on the cultural value and technological innovation of something which is both heavily criticised and yet clearly has changed our understanding and potential of digital arts by altering our perception of ownership and distribution of ‘arts in digital domain’.
On the day, we first will hear a brief presentation by each contributor and then moderated by Atau Tanaka, a debate and exchange of opinions/research will take place. We invite students, researchers and artists who are curious about the field to be a part of the debate with their enquiries, questions and even the research of their own at the first edition of our new on-going series IKLECTIK Talks.
Dr Andrea Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli is a Reader in Mathematics at City, University of London, a research fellow at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and a fellow at the ISI Foundation in Turin. He currently serves as Associate Editor at EPJ Data Science, PLoS ONE and Frontiers in Blockchain. Prior to joining City in 2013, he was at Northeastern University and at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. He received his BS and MS in Theoretical Physics from the Sapienza University of Rome and his PhD in Physics from the same university.
His research in computational socio-economic science and network science has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Science, PNAS and Nature Human Behaviour to Physical Review Letters and Social Networks, and has been recognized by the 2019 “Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics” of the German Physical Society (DPG). In London, he organises Data Natives and co-organises Databeers London and the Computational Social Science Initiative London.
https://www.andreabaronchelli.com/
https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/non-fungible-tokens-can-we-predict-price-theyll-sell
Atau Tanaka
Atau Tanaka studied electronic music with Ivan Tcherepnin at Harvard, and computer music with John Chowning at Stanford University CCRMA. He has carried out research at IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Apple France, and Sony Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) Paris. His first inspirations came meeting John Cage in the 80s. In the 90s he formed Sensorband with Karkowski and Edwin van der Heide, and has releases on Superpang, SubRosa, Bip-hop, Touch/Ash, Sirr-ecords, and NX Records. He has performed at NTT-ICC, Ars Electronica, WOMAD and Sonar festivals, Eyebeam NYC and SFMOMA. He works at Goldsmiths, the Bristol Interaction Group, and the MSH Paris Nord.
http://www.ataut.net
Bence Nanay
Bence Nanay is professor of philosophy and BOF research professor at the University of Antwerp . He published three monographs with Oxford University Press (Between Perception and Action, 2013, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception, 2016, Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction, 2019) with seven more under contract. He has won the prestigious Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is the principal investigator of a two million Euro ERC grant and the director of the European Network for Sensory Research.
https://www.bencenanay.com
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/psychology-tomorrow/202112/the-psychology-nfts
ecolagbohrsac2021 [Atay Ilgun]
ecolagbohrsac2021 [Atay Ilgun] is a crypto-artist, musician and curator with involvement in various individual and collaborative projects involving web3 development since 2018 – mostly praised for M Ξ T A P L Ξ X [as c / a], a multilayered and pioneering project with branches including one of the first artificial intelligence art minted on Ethereum chain, NFTs as internet passports/tokenized-gates, DAO governed metaverses and virtual music performances.
https://opensea.io/ecolagbohrsac2021?tab=created_collections
Estela Oliva
Estela Oliva’s work is inspired by the impact of technology and the internet in human behaviour, society and our surroundings. She creates hybrid environments in which the physical and the virtual blend, unfolding narratives and cerebral experiences. These projects come to life in experimental formats as exhibitions, programmes, experiential events, installations, web experiments, VR experiences or films.
https://www.estelaoliva.com/
Frances Liddell
Frances Liddell is a researcher, writer, and advisor working at the intersection of museums, the arts, and Web3. Her PhD research explored the application of NFTs in museum audience engagement practices in collaboration with National Museums Liverpool and considered how blockchain disrupts digital ownership, authority, authenticity, and value. Her current interests include critically unpacking questions around decolonisation, reciprocation, and IP in Web3. She has previously written for publications such as Museum & Society, Flash Art, Art Quarterly, and Artnome.
Her research explores the application of blockchain through the lens of museum theory, with a specific focus on how this technology could support or disrupt the notion of collaboration, an idea which cuts across themes around ownership, authority, and social value in museums. Within her research, she examines how NFTs could inform notions of guardianship and digital reciprocation through unpacking the idea of psychological ownership. In doing so, I argue that this could forge new connections between a museum and the audiences it serves. I also investigate ideas around shared authority and consider if DAOs and the ‘spirit’ of Web3 offers any means to disrupting museum hegemony. Lastly, I am also interested in the theme of authenticity, and specifically thinking about the different factors in producing digital ‘authentic-ness’ and indeed what blockchain truly offers in the context of this idea.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frances-liddell
