The Art of Collecting NFTs (August 27th, 5PM CEST), panel discussion with art collectors and enthusiasts Judy Mam (Dada.art), Kate Vass, Anne Spalter and Matthew (Cent).
The Blockchain Game Alliance invites you to attend a panel conversation with art collectors and enthusiasts Judy Mam (Dada.art), Kate Vass (Kate Vass Gallery), Anne Spalter (https://annespalter.com) and Matthew (Cent).
The art of collecting NFTs takes into account a number of factors collectors would most probably consider when acquiring an artwork. These factors normally include and refers to: artist reputation, art medium, press coverage, quotation, provenance and condition, use of technology (in some cases) and overall the art sentiment value. According to art critic, curator and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist “to make a collection is to find, acquire, organize and store items’’. Often collectors have multiple meanings for building an art collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDCjbI4m2yY
During this panel conversation our speakers will discuss the nature of what motivates art collectors, their reasons for collecting and how they approach the selecting process when acquiring an art piece. Obrist carries on saying that “collection-making […] is a method of producing knowledge”. If the non fungible art space still represents a small portion of the art market size, it is true that the market is progressively growing and grabbing the attention of non crypto collectors. In recent weeks we have seen crypto art platforms hitting a weekly volume in sales of just under $93.000 despite the incredibly costly transaction fee on the Ethereum Blockchain where most crypto art sales occur.
In a recent tweet contemporary and crypto artist Pak asked: “What’s the most important attribute that cryptoart will bring to the art world? Can you imagine the transition from the traditional art world happening soon?” This tweet captured a number of comments from fellow artists from the crypto and non-crypto space.
A distinctive comment came from artist and programmer Jeff Davis who believes that the “certification/provenance could be a likely starting point for crossover. Where the token serves more like a record of ownership which passes from buyer to seller whenever a work of art is sold”.
Join our live conversation on August 27th at 5PM CET on the Art of Collecting NFTs on the Blockchain Game Alliance Twitter and Youtubechannels
Our speakers
Kate Vass
Art Collector and Art Gallery focuses on generative & new media art (Blockchain, AI, Crypto Collectibles, digital art). Mrs Vass, as owner and creative director of Kate Vass Galerie, focusing on generative arts (new media art, digital, crypto). Kate Vass Galerie is the first physical gallery in the world, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, which specialises in art and technology (blockchain, crypto, AI). KVG is a pioneer gallery, whose mission is to link traditional and digital art. The gallery lies at the intersection of art and tech with the purpose to serve as a “portal” between these two coexisting realities.
Mrs Vass has excellent contacts to museums, private collectors and artists’ estates all over the world and has been organizing many art exhibitions (photography, contemporary, generative and blockchain art). As a freelance exhibition curator and experienced specialist in the art market, Kate, has experience advising private collectors and companies since 2013. She is a certified Curator, by Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has a Master’s degree in Arts Studies from the University of Zurich, as well as Business Management at the European Business School London (EBS) and Swiss Business School (MBA in Finance & Banking). She has built up her own private contemporary art collection (focusing on generative art) as well as an extensive library, with a particular emphasis in the field of generative photography and contemporary art. Ms Vasilieva has worked for UBS with private collectors and advised many years on wealth planning, followed by opening of her own advisory firm F.A.R.E Consulting, offering one of the services on art consulting in the filed of the regulatory changes, implementation of digital marketing as a sales strategy for art galleries and building/integrating e-commerce platforms.
https://www.katevassgalerie.com/blog
Judy Mam
Art collector and the co-founder of dada.art. Judy Mam is the cofounder of dada.art, the only visual conversation platform where people from all over the world speak to each other through drawings, creating collaborative art. DADA is building a token economy with a gamified incentive framework to create a new economic paradigm for artists in which making art is separated from sales transactions, allowing artists to create freely while they receive a passive income for their contribution to the community.
Judy writes an opinion column for The Americano and she writes about film in her blog I’ve Had It With Hollywood. Before devoting herself to DADA, she was a creative director in advertising. Originally from Mexico City, she lives in New York City.
Anne Spalter: Digital mixed media artist, Spalter Collection, founder of RISD’s and Brown’s original digital fine arts programs.
Spalter’s decades-long goal of integrating art and technology includes founding the original digital fine arts programs at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s. While there, she authored over a dozen academic papers and the widely used textbook, The Computer in the Visual Arts. Work on this book led to an interest in collecting digital work and the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection (spalterdigital.com) is now one of the largest private collections of early computer art. Spalter is also on the Digital Art Acquisitions Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Recently, Spalter has been working on large-scale public projects in an effort to bring digital art to audiences beyond traditional museums and galleries: In 2016, she created an MTA Arts 52-screen digital art installation, New York Dreaming, which was on view in the Fulton Center through Fall 2017. From Dec 2018 — early 2019, her video work, Turning Festival, was on view in the Hong Kong Harbor, displayed by LED over 47,000sq feet on the Tsim Sha Tsui and Empire Centre buildings. A new body of work, further developed at a Winter 2019 residency at MASS MoCA, combines artificial intelligence image algorithms with oil paint and pastels. Her work is included in a number of public and private collections.
https://annespalter.com/about/
Matthew: Crypto art collector, podcaster, co-founder of CENT.co and also the creator of the weekly WIP Meetup, a VR meetup that showcases NFT projects, crypto artists and DeFi projects.
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