Conversation topics will include
•What are the roles and possibilities for collectors to engage in the digital space?
•What is the influence of private collectors on the development of the market?
•How to incorporate digital art into established collections?
•Artistic concept vs technology: How to evaluate new forms of creation?
•What are the mechanisms of the secondary market of digital works?
•What role do intermediaries play in the digital art market?
•How to display and exhibit digital works and NFTs?
Schedule
Speakers will include
Jenny Guo
Co-Founder of LumiereVR / Arts Patron
Boston
Qin Ya Jenny Guo is an award-winning creative producer, XR arts collector, and tech entrepreneur. She was named in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018 and AACYF 30 under 30 in 2020.
Backed by HTC ViveX and TechStars, her company LumiereVR uses computer vision and mixed reality to revolutionize the retail industry. The VR projects she has worked on have also won multiple awards in both Asia and the U.S. She has produced and distributed multiple VR art installations, including renowned artist Rachel Maclean’s I’m Terribly Sorry with KWM Art Center, Wang Xin’s Maybe it’s Time to Refresh the Art World a Little Bit at K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong, and Tian Zhuo Chen’s Trance. Her producing work Living Distance with artist Xin Liu was selected for multiple renowned film festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, Beijing Film Festival. It’s the first Chinese immersive project that Sundance New Frontier Lab has taken on. Her latest VR artwork Devil’s Ivy, with artist Liu Wa, was shown at Busan Biennale and Sandbox Immersive Festival. This film has won the young creative award from International Emmys.
Ms. Guo double majored in Electronic Art and Political Studies at Bard College and later studied Creative Producing at ColumbiaUniversity. She has extensive experience in auction houses and art dealing between China and the U.S. and is also a Sundance fellow and researcher at Harvard Visualization Lab.
Ms. Guo has spoken at multiple conferences, including Harvard Graduate School of Design, SXSW, Wharton School of Business, J.P Morgan, TEDxBohaibay, and Christie’s.
Backed by HTC ViveX and TechStars, her company LumiereVR uses computer vision and mixed reality to revolutionize the retail industry. The VR projects she has worked on have also won multiple awards in both Asia and the U.S. She has produced and distributed multiple VR art installations, including renowned artist Rachel Maclean’s I’m Terribly Sorry with KWM Art Center, Wang Xin’s Maybe it’s Time to Refresh the Art World a Little Bit at K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong, and Tian Zhuo Chen’s Trance. Her producing work Living Distance with artist Xin Liu was selected for multiple renowned film festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, Beijing Film Festival. It’s the first Chinese immersive project that Sundance New Frontier Lab has taken on. Her latest VR artwork Devil’s Ivy, with artist Liu Wa, was shown at Busan Biennale and Sandbox Immersive Festival. This film has won the young creative award from International Emmys.
Ms. Guo double majored in Electronic Art and Political Studies at Bard College and later studied Creative Producing at ColumbiaUniversity. She has extensive experience in auction houses and art dealing between China and the U.S. and is also a Sundance fellow and researcher at Harvard Visualization Lab.
Ms. Guo has spoken at multiple conferences, including Harvard Graduate School of Design, SXSW, Wharton School of Business, J.P Morgan, TEDxBohaibay, and Christie’s.
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Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile
Crypto Entrepreneur / Collector
Miami
Pablo is a Spanish/American investor, advisor, and collector most recently known for his early adoption of blockchain technology, NFTs and his digital art collection.
A Columbia University alumnus, he studied mathematics, economics and completed his MBA. With experience in private equity, hedge funds and private banking, Pablo leveraged his finance background becoming an early adopter of blockchain technology. He invests and advises on L1 protocols including, but not limited to, Algorand, Avalanche, Hedera Hashgraph and Filecoin.
An early NFT adopter, he is credited as one of the drivers and most influential art collector in the digital art ecosystem, with the most significant collection at the global scale. He was the first to support world renowned artist Beeple and is now the largest private collector and supporter of digital artist Pak, and has established relationships with other top artists including Andres Reisinger, Refik Anadol, and many others.
Noteworthy events include his purchase of Picasso’s Bull by Trevor Jones, Pak’s first pixels (both Alpha and Red) as well as the remarkable sale of Crossroads by Beeple, which he purchased for $66,000 and sold nearly three months later for $6.6M.
He is regarded as a top global digital landowner in the virtual Metaverse, where he displays his notable digital art in his acclaimed Lot 555 Collection, designed by his wife, well-known architect and designer, Desiree Casoni.
When not investing or advising, Pablo enjoys piloting, travelling, boating, and spending time with his wife and daughter at their home in Key Biscayne, Florida.
A Columbia University alumnus, he studied mathematics, economics and completed his MBA. With experience in private equity, hedge funds and private banking, Pablo leveraged his finance background becoming an early adopter of blockchain technology. He invests and advises on L1 protocols including, but not limited to, Algorand, Avalanche, Hedera Hashgraph and Filecoin.
An early NFT adopter, he is credited as one of the drivers and most influential art collector in the digital art ecosystem, with the most significant collection at the global scale. He was the first to support world renowned artist Beeple and is now the largest private collector and supporter of digital artist Pak, and has established relationships with other top artists including Andres Reisinger, Refik Anadol, and many others.
Noteworthy events include his purchase of Picasso’s Bull by Trevor Jones, Pak’s first pixels (both Alpha and Red) as well as the remarkable sale of Crossroads by Beeple, which he purchased for $66,000 and sold nearly three months later for $6.6M.
He is regarded as a top global digital landowner in the virtual Metaverse, where he displays his notable digital art in his acclaimed Lot 555 Collection, designed by his wife, well-known architect and designer, Desiree Casoni.
When not investing or advising, Pablo enjoys piloting, travelling, boating, and spending time with his wife and daughter at their home in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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Fanny Lakoubay
Digital Art Advisor with NFT Expertise
New York
Fanny is a French-born, New-York-City-based digital art advisor specialized in NFTs with 14 years of experience in art, technology and finance. As a private advisor, she currently supports institutional, corporate, and HNWI clients, who want to enter or better navigate the NFT space, and is affiliated with Coinfund as a communication advisor. She is also involved
in two civic tech impact projects: RadicalxChange Foundation and ETHLocal. Prior to this, she took part in some of the pioneering NFT projects (MoCDA, New Art Academy, The Contemporary And Digital Art Fair, Editional App, Snark art) and worked with larger organizations (Christie’s Auction House, Artnet Online Art Marketplace, Societe Generale Bank). She holds an MBA from HEC Paris business school and a BA in Art History, and fluently speaks French, English and German.
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Sylvain Levy
dslcollection
Paris
Sylvain Levy is a collector and, together with his wife Dominique, is one of the main people in charge of the dslcollection, an important collection of contemporary Chinese art. Founded in 2005, the dslcollection encourages the discovery and study of contemporary Chinese art. It uses innovative technologies to promote greater visibility and provide the means to share the
experience of contemporary culture. Openness, nomadism and sharing are fundamental concepts of the dslcollection.
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Ronnie K. Pirovino
Art Collector / Curator
Salt Lake City
Ronnie K. Pirovino is an avid art collector, curator and appraiser; these pursuits have evolved to encompass various entrepreneurial facets including NFTs. Notably, after his collection grew to prominence, he departed a successful career in digital advertising to focus on art. Recently, he partnered with Christie’s on an ongoing series of auction sales, called
Trespassing. On Instagram, @pirovino allows his followers to view his processes and various projects.
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Jehan Chu
Crypto Entrepreneur / Collector
Hong Kong
Jehan Chu is co-founder and managing partner at Kenetic, a blockchain venture capital and cryptocurrency trading firm based in Hong Kong. A former front-end developer, he started
investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 100 projects. Jehan founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong (2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016).
Jehan serves as co-chairman of the Hong Kong Fintech Association Blockchain Committee, is enrolled in the Kauffman Fellows Program, is a fellow of the Singapore University of Social Science and a member of the Global Patrons Board of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He also sits on the Board of Para Site Art Space and is co-founder and board member of Social Alpha Foundation, a blockchain/social impact non-profit. Jehan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MA from Hong Kong University.
investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 100 projects. Jehan founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong (2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016).
Jehan serves as co-chairman of the Hong Kong Fintech Association Blockchain Committee, is enrolled in the Kauffman Fellows Program, is a fellow of the Singapore University of Social Science and a member of the Global Patrons Board of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He also sits on the Board of Para Site Art Space and is co-founder and board member of Social Alpha Foundation, a blockchain/social impact non-profit. Jehan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MA from Hong Kong University.
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Qinwen Wang
Collector
Shanghai
Qinwen Wang’s adventures span from being an artist, to venture capital to Entrepreneurship geographically extending from China, the Middle East to Europe.
Founded in 2012, QW Art Advisory exists to support her art projects. In Kuan Capital, she helped Israel technology to commercialize in China through a co-innovation investment model. In 2019, Qinwen joined Web3 Foundation, a Swiss foundation founded by Dr. Gavin Wood fostering the cryptographically-enabled protocols that safeguard decentralization and enable the vision of Web 3.0. The major initiatives include Web3.0 Bootcamp and Web3 Forum. She is also the councilor of Polkadot Network which is the flagship project of Web3 Foundation.
Hybrid backgrounds form Qinwen’s mission-driven dedication in art and technology. She has been a continuous supporter and contributor to Christie’s Art & Tech Initiative from Summit to London and Asia’s NFT Art Program. She co-produced the world’s first crypto art exhibition “Virtual Niche” with BCA in UCCA Lab in 2021 which has been widely featured on CGTN, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TechNode, France24, Le Figaro, Jing Daily, ArtNet, 美術手帖 and Decrypt. She supports MaskNetwork and SuperRare in Series A with the firm belief in Web3.0 and the future of digital art collecting.
Qinwen has spoken at Bahrain Art Week, Shanghai West Bund Art Fair and Christie’s Art & Tech Summit, featured in Vogue Business, Artsy, Harper’s Bazaar Art China on How Web3.0 technology is building up the Decentralized Art Market.
Founded in 2012, QW Art Advisory exists to support her art projects. In Kuan Capital, she helped Israel technology to commercialize in China through a co-innovation investment model. In 2019, Qinwen joined Web3 Foundation, a Swiss foundation founded by Dr. Gavin Wood fostering the cryptographically-enabled protocols that safeguard decentralization and enable the vision of Web 3.0. The major initiatives include Web3.0 Bootcamp and Web3 Forum. She is also the councilor of Polkadot Network which is the flagship project of Web3 Foundation.
Hybrid backgrounds form Qinwen’s mission-driven dedication in art and technology. She has been a continuous supporter and contributor to Christie’s Art & Tech Initiative from Summit to London and Asia’s NFT Art Program. She co-produced the world’s first crypto art exhibition “Virtual Niche” with BCA in UCCA Lab in 2021 which has been widely featured on CGTN, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TechNode, France24, Le Figaro, Jing Daily, ArtNet, 美術手帖 and Decrypt. She supports MaskNetwork and SuperRare in Series A with the firm belief in Web3.0 and the future of digital art collecting.
Qinwen has spoken at Bahrain Art Week, Shanghai West Bund Art Fair and Christie’s Art & Tech Summit, featured in Vogue Business, Artsy, Harper’s Bazaar Art China on How Web3.0 technology is building up the Decentralized Art Market.
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Christian Mio Loclair
Artist, AI programmer
Berlin
Christian Mio Loclair is a German artist who works at the interface of artistic and scientific research. Using custom algorithms, data and digital devices, the artist creates sculptures, video works and installations to continuously portray the aesthetics and frictions of both human and digital identity. In his work, Loclair explores the human body, organic movement and codified nature
with opposing digital processes, data-driven algorithms and machine learning. His artworks focus on novel aesthetic identities that derive from the interplay of mathematical and poetic research, examining both creative and societal potentials of artificial intelligence as well as the opposing myth of man – machine.
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Joan Heemskerk
Artist
Netherlands
Joan Heemskerk has a background in photography & digital.art Since 1995 she is a member of the art collec- tive JODI >>> JODI, or (jodi.org) - pi- oneered net.Art in 1995. JODI were among thd first artists to inves|igate and subvert conventkoos od |he`In- ternet, compute?programs, and vh- deo ajd computer gamus. Radically di{rupting The ver9 languawe of t`ese
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Hampus Lindwall
Titular Organist in Saint-Esprit, Paris (FR)
Professor of Improvisation at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et Pédagogie Royal (IMEP) à Namur (BE)
Collector
Professor of Improvisation at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et Pédagogie Royal (IMEP) à Namur (BE)
Collector
Paris
Renowned musical artist Hampus Lindwall was born in Sweden. He has been collecting artists of his generation in all types of mediums, with a particular interest in digital and conceptual expressions. Due to his
interest in visual arts, Hampus Lindwall is frequently collaborating with artists like John Duncan, Leif Elggren, Studio For Propositional Cinema, and Emily Sundblad to name a few.
Most recently, he co-curated an online organ concert for Issue Project Room together with Cory Arcangel, where they commissioned music from Akira Sileas, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Stine Janvin and Seth Price. The concert took place online and can be watched here.
Most recently, he co-curated an online organ concert for Issue Project Room together with Cory Arcangel, where they commissioned music from Akira Sileas, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Stine Janvin and Seth Price. The concert took place online and can be watched here.
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Olive Allen
Artist
New York
Olive Allen draws on her background in both fine arts and technology to create new media art that captures the internet culture of the new age and exposes systems of value. She is a cryptocurrency early adopter and one of the pioneers of the NFT space. She uses token-based digital works to create social commentary. Her approach gamifies digital art objects to engender performative,
interactive relationships with her audience. She has exhibited with König Galerie (Berlin), The Untitled Space (New York), Nagel Draxler Gallery (Cologne), and Save Art Space (London), among others. Her work has been written about in publications such as The New York Times, TheArtGorgeous Magazine, and CoinDesk.
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Michah Dowbak aka Mad Dog Jones
Artist
Thunder Bay
Michah Dowbak aka Mad Dog Jones is a multidisciplinary artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario. His works deftly interweave cyberpunk, dystopian imagery exploring themes of beauty, nature and technology. As a lover of the wilderness, which was ever present where he grew up, he brings a fresh thematic to the metropolitan aesthetic, done up in citrus and neon tones of technology
somehow rendered as a space naturally human.Over the last two years, Dowbak has created artworks for Run The Jewels, Deadmau5, Jabbawockeez, Conor McGregor for Reebok, Snowpiercer TV series and Maroon 5. His first and only IRL exhibit was AFTERL-IFE WORLD in Tokyo Sept-Nov 2019. Since then, Dowbak has risen to fame in the world of crypto art, with the recent success of his Crash + Burn series of NFT artworks. He is now a headliner in the first major NFT art exhibition at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. In Spring 2021, Dowbak and Phillips Auction collaborated on a ground-breaking crypto concept, REPLICATOR. This was the first NFT auctioned at Phillips, pioneering the space for future digital artists.
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Wiyu Wahono
Collector
Jakarta
Wiyu Wahono was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and began collecting art in 1999. Part of his collections has been exhibited in the National Museum Liechtenstein, ars electronica festival, Austria, Asia Society Museum New York, National Gallery Singapore, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Hong Kong Arts Centre, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, and
in Indonesia. He has been invited to be a speaker at dozens of art talks both locally and internationally, and has served on the juries of the Bandung Contemporary Art Award and other art competitions. He is a member of the Board of Young Collectors in Art Jakarta, Honorary Board of Patrons Singapore Art Fair, and was a Nominee for the Best Collector 2017 at Art Stage Jakarta. Wiyu Wahono spent 20 years in Germany, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in plastics technology from the Technical University of Berlin, and was an industrial consultant in German.
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Haro Cumbusyan
Collector
Zurich
Haro Cumbusyan is a social entrepreneur and a collector of contemporary art with a particular focus on media art. He is the Founding Director of EK BİÇ YE İÇ, a social enterprise based in Istanbul that explores strategies for a healthy, enjoyable, and sustainable life in big cities. Before that, Haro ran collectorspace, a nonprofit organization that aimed to study art
collecting practices by opening up private collections to public view and subjecting them to critical review. Haro is a member of the Board of Directors of Council (Paris), SAHA (Istanbul), and Centre d'Art Contemporain (Geneva), the Board of Advisors of Protocinema (Istanbul/New York), the Selection Committee of LOOP Moving Image Fair (Barcelona), and the Acquisition Committee of Media and Performance at MoMA (New York). He lives with his family near Zurich, Switzerland.
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Elsie
NFT Collector
New York
Elsie is a traditional collector from New York State, who started her collection of NFTs in March 2021 under the pseudonym Elsie. Since then, she has collected over 50 works, among which some iconic ones by Larvalabs, Pak, Hackatao, Osinachi, Kevin Abosch and many more crypto artists. She has purchased works from trusted galleries, such as Kate Vass Gallery, Breezy Art, Left
Gallery and Transfer Gallery. Most importantly she has developed relationships with many of these artists and now support their work as a patron.
Collection Website: edicurial.com Collection on TryShowTime: https://tryshowtime.com/elsie Collection on Opensea: https://opensea.io/accounts/Elsie Collection Wallet Address: 0x7d85806c589d9e1301898932a32108f15c6daf14
Collection Website: edicurial.com Collection on TryShowTime: https://tryshowtime.com/elsie Collection on Opensea: https://opensea.io/accounts/Elsie Collection Wallet Address: 0x7d85806c589d9e1301898932a32108f15c6daf14
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Leonardo Menezes
Museum of Tomorrow
Rio de Janeiro
Leonardo is an exhibition curator, audiovisual director, screenwriter, as a Ph.D. in Communication and is the CEO and Creative Director of Guaraná Content. For the past six years, he has worked as the Content Manager, and currently, he assumed the position of Knowledge and Creation Director of the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. Curator of temporary exhibitions
at the Museum, with emphasis on “Pratodomundo - Comida para 10 Billions” (winner of the Grands Prix bronze award in the Temporary Exhibition Design category), “Inovanças - Criações à Brasileira”, “Vidas offsetas” and most recently "Coronaceno - reflections on a pandemic time". Director of the documentary feature film "Luana Muniz - Filha da Lua" (2017), winner of the Best National Feature Film at Rio Festival of Gender and Sexuality in Cinema 2017, Best Film at Festival Mix Brasil 2018; and at the Impact Docs Awards, in California, USA. Director of the documentary Medium-length film “Lorna Washington - Surviving the Supposed Losses” (2016), winner of the Honorable Mention awards in the competitive show of Rio Festival of Gender and Sexuality in Cinema 2016; and at the Impact Docs Awards, in California, USA. Wrote scripts for Rede Globo, Canal Futura, Globo Internacional, Globo News, TV Brasil, TV Cultura, Universal Channel and created content for Roberto Marinho Foundation, MEC, IETV, Rio + 20, Rock in Rio, Rio Art Museum, Planetarium do Rio, Museum of the Portuguese Language. He was awarded Promax 2009 (USA) and Caracol de Plata 2009 (Mexico) for the creation of the We Can for the UN campaign, in addition to receiving two Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano 2005.
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