anika meier
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writer, curator & lecturer • newsletter @statusupdateart • board @hek_basel • lecturer at @dieangewandte, wien; bauhaus uni, weimar • curating @_second_guess
Joined January 2011
Join us! ✌️. @ix_shells .@newrafael.@sofiagarcia_io (@artxcode_io).@ArtOnBlockchain (@artblocks_io).@justintrimble (@braindrops_art).@NeuralBricolage .@soficrespo91 .@REAS (@feralfile) . Hosted by @jessedamiani, @verticalcrypto & myself. 🎧
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🔥 It‘s done. The Foundation Herbert W. Franke is proud to present Herbert W. Franke’s database of digitized manuscripts starting in 1946. It is now publicly accessible online at ZKM Karlsruhe. Made possible with the generous donations from the artists who were part of the
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Join us! ✌️ . @co1born (@museumofcrypto) .@mattmedved (@nftnow).@mondoir.@rheaplex.@MarkDigitalHD (@feltzine).@stellabelle.@andrwwang.@WebbEmotional (@worldwide_web3) . Hosted by @verticalcrypto, @jessedamiani & myself. 🎧
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do we really believe that the future of digital art and exhibitions is showing nfts on tv screens in a museum / gallery etc.?.
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Join us! ✌️ . @kevinabosch.@sarahmeyohas.@dennnnnnnnny.@isthisanart_.@annaridler.@harmvddorpel.@mitchellfchan .@rheaplex . Hosted by @jessedamiani, @verticalcrypto & myself. 🎧
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A heartfelt THANK YOU to all the artists who are part of the TRIBUTE TO @HerbertWFranke. I just looked through all the contributions from Herbert’s old and new friends, and I can’t wait for you to see all the work created to pay tribute to his legacy. #TributeHerbertWFranke
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Join us! ✌️. Speakers:. @pussyrrriot .@johannkoenig .@jeffgdavis .@c_verdult .@seth .@saintsoftness .@ParinHeidari .@ArielHudes . Hosted by @verticalcrypto and myself. 🎧
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it‘s possible to not have all-male panels. all you have to do is: invite women.
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marina abramović’s first nfts (on tezos) will be "the hero" (2001) but they also won‘t be the "the hero". do you have questions for marina abramović?
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artnet saying nfts are dead means they finally have the status the medium of painting has, because how often have we heard painting is dead?.
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Join us! ✌️. Speakers: . @kevinabosch .@ivonatau .@zancan .@sashastiles .@shumonbasar .@operator_______ .@RodolpheK .@LadyCactoid .@LaurenceFuller . Hosted by @verticalcrypto, and myself. 🎧
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🌐 hello world! 👋. 🔥 what are the "grails" of female and non-binary artists❓. 🔥 who are the female and non-binary artists you have recently collected❓. 🦄 i am done seeing all-male artist lists from collectors❗️.
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Digital artists are suddenly confronted with expectations. Not just to create good art, but art that sells. And not just that it sells, number must go up. Does a collector have diamond hands or paper hands? What's the floor? Traits. Rarities. Hodl?. Digital art has become a
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Join us! ✌️ . @lm_netwebs.@thesarahshow.@haydiroket.@asugarhigh.@p1xelfool.@nicolas_sassoon.@pastelae3d.@alcrego_. Hosted by @jessedamiani, @verticalcrypto, and myself. 🎧
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i am honored to be part of the ab curation board . thank you, @ArtOnBlockchain & @jeffgdavis!.
1/🧵.Over the past months, the AB Team has been adding structure to our Curation Board and our project review process. Keep reading to learn why we're making the change, then read this article to learn about the members of the Art Blocks Curation Board👇.
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"Mondrian was never a commercially successful artist. For much of his long career, he produced watercolours of flowers, as a sideline to support himself. According to his biographer, Hans Janssen — writing in Piet Mondrian: A Life (2022) — even in the 1920s, at the peak of his
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since when does art need to sell out (immediately)? . did andy warhol have a stopwatch?.
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before NFTs: digital art was largely ignored* because there was no market. after NFTs: digital art is not taken seriously because there is a market. *by the trad art world.
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"(…) generative art has now escaped its very small community, and it's entered into a much larger world. In doing so, it's gotten wrapped up and tied in with cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and while I don't think it needed to be that way, that's how it happened. While these new
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if curators were just selecting, curators would be called selectors.
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I made art with AI. I am still a writer, don‘t worry. Here‘s why…. "Leave your eyes behind. You will see the invisible. You will feel infinity. You will no longer count hours. No more measuring. There is nothing to consider. There is nothing to decide. There's nothing left to
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so, @jerrysaltz doesn‘t like @refikanadol, @sabatobox doesn‘t like taylor swift . i do not like depeche mode (and coconut) . does anyone else have another confession to make? (i like the foo fighters).
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"What happened to the bull market and the notion that all artworks appreciate in value? . The art market has been experiencing a downturn for the last few years, but the slump has been particularly acute for young artists. During the early pandemic, a speculative boom driven by a
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madonna‘s manager seems to be a big madonna fan. guy is bidding on 2 of the nfts.
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not all gallery shows sell out. why do people expect that nft drops sell out within seconds?.
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❗️ this is definitely one of the releases i am the most excited about this year. 🔥 complex city by @Every_Icon.
An ode to New York, John F. Simon Jr.’s ComplexCity is often described as one of his most autobiographical works. Abstracted elevators, frenetic intersections, autonomous flocks of birds, a city skyline in constant flux…. @Every_Icon @NatoThompson @ceoofparties
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👋 who is interested in the history of digital art and generative art?. a few months ago, we (@expandedart) have started releasing pioneer grails. pioneer grails is a series of 72-hour open nft editions presenting paradigmatic artworks from key figures in the history of digital
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Join us! ✌️. @iamoliveallen.@jonas_lund.@laturboavedon.@ubermorgen_com.@grandenchilada (@powerdada).@cibellecibelle.@skyenicolas.@jeremybailey. Hosted by @verticalcrypto, @jessedamiani, and myself. 🎧
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i don’t know who needs to hear this again: art does not need to sell out immediately.
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someone: nfts are dead. digital art is not art. me: you know who the new editor-in-chief of artforum is, right?.
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"the individual image is no longer of interest; it‘s the infinity of images". – frieder nake. @kimasendorf and i met frieder nake (@carlcanary), one of the pioneers of computer art, in bremen
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digital art icon claudia hart came by the gallery today. we discussed the history of digital art and cables
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why are many artists from the crypto space so fond of auction houses but not of galleries?.
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✨ history in the making . 🌱 @operator_______ and @zancan at @KateVassGalerie’s and @lemonde2d’s exhibition in paris
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👋 i select this week‘s "five on @foundation" as their guest curator 👀 . 💭 i‘ve never understood why telling the story of an artist or an artwork or an exhibition is called shilling in this space. that‘s what art is also about: conversations. 🔥 share your story with me! . 💬
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MoMA curated an exhibition on FeralFile. TASCHEN published the book, a baby sumo, ON NFTs edited by Robert Alice. (US launch event at Christie‘s in New York.). Artforum announced longtime contributor and curator Tina Rivers Ryan as the magazine’s next Editor in Chief. NFTs are.
XCOPY sells 1m NFTs.Punk sells for 16m.Pablo takes 400k loan against a Beeple 1/1. NFTs are going to be okay me thinks.
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Join us! ✌️. @justinaversano.@hyenahugo .@priska_pasquer.@misanharriman.@swopes.@damjanski.@doublekoek.@aaronhuey. Hosted by @jessedamiani, @verticalcrypto, and myself. 🎧
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👋 day 1 in paris . ✨ @aniacatherine from @operator_______ celebrates her birthday . ✨ @aurecevettier and @AlexEstorick celebrate their upcoming events: @brtmoments exhibition and @RtClick_Save book launch . ✨ @mikeywoodbridge and @emailyedelman celebrate @brtmoments paris. ✨
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"If more digital art finds its way to the main fair at Art Dubai, will there still be a need for a special section? . Two exhibitors at Art Dubai Digital told me they weren’t keen about being kept separate and planned to apply to the main fair next year. I suppose the success of
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it‘s not that auction houses do stuff because they think something deserves recognition. they do it because they expect sales . recognition comes from somewhere else . btw, why do "we" still seek validation from the trad art world?.
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nft art day zürich . class of 23 . with @jaredstarbell .@quasimondo .@jeffgdavis .@AlexEstorick (@RtClick_Save) .@thefunnyguysNFT .@briandroitcour (@outland_art) .@tifzab (@daataart) .@SNOWCASH432 .@aljaparis .@operator_______ .@yaoeo .@annespalter .@eleonorabrizi .@PowerDada
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The history of art is also a history of rejection. I’ve written that somewhere before. Once the patterns that recur throughout art history become apparent, you might expect there to be a learning curve. But there isn’t one. Why is that? I’m also not sure why there is so little
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✨ A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who was, is, and will be part of our journey preserving Herbert‘s legacy. I wish he could see this. I am immensely grateful to my friend @WeidingerAlfred, director of Francisco Carolinum Linz (@ooeculture), for introducing me to
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i just finished my artworks for my first exhibition 👀. i might be nervous 🐣.
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the OGs of computer art had a hard time getting the recognition they would have deserved. after all these years and through the nft hype, they are slowly being pulled into the spotlight: more people start to understand how visionary their work has always been.
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👋 day 2 in paris. ✨ celebrating the @RtClick_Save book launch at @DataGalerie with, among others, @AlexEstorick (congratulations! 🫶), @mattdesl, @ganbrood, @chilltulpa, and @loackme_ . 🥲 i was too slow to buy the @RtClick_Save book, it was sold out immediately; this is proof
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Yesterday, Drakula (1971) by @HerbertWFranke sold at Sotheby’s for 38,100 USD. If there’s something I could have never imagined it’s everything that has happened after I have met Herbert and Susanne last year in March. Susanne and I can’t wait to meet you all, hopefully, at
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👋 with friends at paris photo. ✨ @operator_______ with @LaCollectionOff . ✨ @kevinabosch with @nageldraxler . ✨ @quasimondo with @verse_works . ✨ @justinaversano with @LaCollectionOff
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one day 83-year-old @hansdehlinger, pioneer of plotter drawings, stood in front of me at the gallery. quite a few things have happened since. we’ve presented his first solo show at @ExpandedArt. we’ve visited nft art day zürich together and met hans ulrich obrist.
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nfts have been institutionalized: moma, taschen, artforum. the revolution has been institutionalized.
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❗️what is good curation? . ✔️ concept . ✔️ storytelling . ✨ 1337 by @kevinabosch curated by @eleonorabrizi at @NFTFactoryParis is one of the solo exhibitions that was much needed in the nft space. ✔️ no quantification of art . ✔️ no sales mechanism to maximise sales and clicks
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Join us! ✌️. @robnessofficial.@Lambieartist.@amanda_devik.@SatsMoonSoon.@joshuadecter.@cryptoyuna.@ericprhodes. Hosted by @verticalcrypto, @jessedamiani, and myself. 🎧
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💭 Herbert W. Franke, 1957: . "Given the lack of understanding and mistrust of technology that is frequently encountered today, it is hardly surprising that the relationship between technology and art will also be misconstrued. Accordingly, technology often tends to be dismissed
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💬 "The message etched onto the back of my first iPod is probably going to have more cultural meaning in 200 years than what might have been on the iPod at one point in time.". – Chris Coleman (@digitalcoleman). 💾 I’ve discussed the ephemeral nature of the digital and the world
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🥹 welcome to the family, willy! . he‘s 5 months old. please say hi to willy! 👋
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"(…) if you want to predict the future of 'art' in the shadow of generative A.I., you specifically do not want to focus on what the technology makes it easy to do. You want to focus on what it doesn’t do, or what remains difficult to do, because it is in that direction that our
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i went to an artist talk (twitter space) and all i got was people not wanting to hear the artist speak about his art but themselves about community.
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lost futures: corinna.tribute to herbert w. franke. (i know, i am late)
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The history of art is also a history of rejection. I’ve written that somewhere before. Once the patterns that recur throughout art history become apparent, you might expect there to be a learning curve. But there isn’t one. Why is that? I’m also not sure why there is so little
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one year ago, our beloved dinosaur, @herbertwfranke left us. as promised to him, susanne and i take care of his legacy, and i do my best to support her. thank you to everyone for being on this journey with us, for your love and support. herbert appreciated it.
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the new online art world: . artists are collectors. collectors are curators. curators are gallerists. gallerists are gone.
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🔥 Lynn Hershman Leeson on how she got her first gallery show 🤯. "The early challenge was getting somebody to show my work, because nobody would. The way I solved that was that I finished my degree at San Francisco State, but I didn’t finish it in the art department. I did my
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👀 when you‘re invited by @UBERMORGEN_COM to teach digital art at the university of applied arts in vienna and end up doing a drop with your class on @objktcom. 😯 i didn‘t know what to expect when i walked into the classroom. i‘ve asked the students what they would like to
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💬 Tina Rivers Ryan: "Digital is reality. And I think that that’s become increasingly true for an increasing number of people around the world over the past 30 years. And so from where I stand, there is no contemporary art without media art, without digital art. I’m not saying
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👋 Join us to discuss art on Ordinals, the status of NFTs, and the future of digital art. 💬 Speakers: . ▪️ @YesClaudiaHart .▪️ @0xfar .▪️ @JennMcCoySpace .▪️ @mccoyspace .▪️ @kevinabosch . 👇 Set your reminder!
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"Rothko's philosophy was, of course, complicated. He belonged to a generation of artists—his contemporaries included Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still—who spent long periods in obscurity and poverty before they were discovered by the critics, at which point their prices
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"Gunter Sachs became an assiduous collector of pop art and in 1972 opened a gallery in Hamburg. The Warhol exhibition he staged there was one of the first in Europe, although as Sachs's son Rolf recalls: . 'Nothing sold. My father was highly embarrassed, and he bought most of the
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gm! ✨ . install day at akademie der künste in berlin 👀. we‘re getting ready for the generative art summit (3-6 july) by @Foundation_HWF and tonight‘s opening at @ExpandedArt (2 july, 6-9 pm cet), "the path to the present, 1954-2024" 🚀. safe travels! & welcome to berlin! 👋
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"Among artists, Warhol gets all the credit for writing the self-promotion playbook, but I count more Keiths than Andys on the scene in 2024. You don’t keep people interested with enigmatic muteness; you do it by noisily positioning your stuff as both populist and cerebral and
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🔥 it‘s happening! 🔥 . 😅 i keep receiving messages from people telling me in a sort of disbelief that @sougwen chung will have an exhibition in berlin. ✌️ yes, that's right! . 🦾 i am bringing sougwen to berlin for the second time this year. (first time: they were on a panel
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💭 When I started sharing my AI work, some people said that I could not do that. They said I cannot be an artist. They said I should stay in my box, the curator box. I have always been a writer. I will always be a writer. I approach curating from the perspective of a writer.
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"A Chinese emperor orders the most talented painter in his kingdom to depict his favourite rooster, who has just died. He gives him three months. When the deadline passes, the emperor visits the painter, but the portrait is not ready. Just as he is about to severely punish him,
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postcard from tonight’s opening of market makers in berlin (by @______jpg______) . with among others @MPtherealmvp, @dennnnnnnnny, @stinalinneag, @JanRobertLeegte, and @finidotworld
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✨ gm!. 🔥 we‘re open! . 💭 'reimagine tomorrow, 1954–2024'.🗓️ 17–24 november.🤖 ai biennale, essen
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💭 "That’s a high percentage of collectors who are buying her work and then selling it right away.". – Amanda Schmitt, Art Advisor. 💭 "One of Bull’s works first appeared at auction in 2022, and by the end of the following year, 29 examples had been sold under the hammer in New
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"That’s the fucked-up thing about being an artist. You have to be really comfortable with just knowing that the idea will eventually come, and it will come on time, and it will be the right idea.". – Holly Herndon
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are open editions the expensive version of what once was an exhibition poster?.
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"The pioneers of computer art were driven by the newness of the technology, the untouched areas wide open for inventive investigation. Because of the lack of viable commercial applications at that time, they enjoyed the rare freedom to define their own goals, guided only by
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"… the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art—it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure—photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all.
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people who have a strong opinion about nfts based on beeple and bayc, do they also only know hirst and koons and think this is what art is about?.
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🦾 Work in Progress #5 . It is not just a new exhibition location, but also a former church, which we have transformed into a new exhibition space over the past few days. The doors of the church have been closed for 4 years. We are not quite finished yet, but we still have a
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Nearly ten years ago, I met the artist Leah Schrager. Exactly ten years ago, she curated the online exhibition BODY ANXIETY with Jennifer Chan, which made a significant impact at that time. Exactly ten years later, the stakes are high for women and non-binary artists, which is
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👋 Save the date! . @artnftlinz takes place parallel to @ArsElectronica in Linz, UNESCO City of Media Arts. We‘ll announce the artists & speakers next week! . 9 speakers .3 artist collectives .1 exhibition. more
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