When NFTs are becoming much more than digital assets on the blockchain. — No, it is not because you mint an NFT that you will become rich. No, it is not because you digitize one artwork and drop it on a blockchain that you will see your life change. No, it is not because you say it is NFT art that collectors will start buying from you. Since March, there isn’t been one week where we can read newspaper headlines with the word NFT and a large figure next to it. When looking at the NFT space from this perspective, it seems the only stories being told are the extraordinary sales made by different auction houses, museums…

As new ideas, projects and collaborations are being developed at a high speed in the art and NFT space, we often tend to act and consume without taking the time to explain and reflect on what has been done. Today, I would like to introduce a\terHEN (read alter-hen), an artist-run online space that I helped found. — As often, it starts with a desire for change The idea of a\terHEN emerged from the high-speed of the Tezos-based art marketplace hic et nunc in June 2021, when speculative behaviours started to emerge. The hic et nunc community went through a frenetic period of low-price sales, fast-produced NFTs and high-price on the secondary market. This changed the way…

(This article was supposed to be published in 2019. But, strangely, it was still in my drafts folder 🤷🏻‍♀️ Its content is still so relevant that I found it good to publish, even a few years later.) Lately, I organised two panels about blockchain and museums and I won’t say…

A few weeks ago, I have been invited by the Global Network of Cultural Districts (GCDN) to react on 2020 affected the museum field and changed its future shape. The session was moderated by András Szántó (author of the recently published excellent book “The Future of the Museum”). My colleagues…

Many of you were curious and asked us questions about our ecological approach to a conference after what we have done in Katowice in 2019. Making a gathering of 250 people environmentally responsible is far from an easy task, but we have done everything we can to minimize our carbon…

This is a summary of Jamiee Williams’ speech at ‘Museums Facing Extinction’ Conference on November 16th 2020. — To ensure that people and planet are side by side and equal, we need to design inclusive, circular, and sometimes digitally enabled solutions. This is where culture comes into play, as an essential pillar that aims to build community while learning how to inspire and engage people worldwide.

This is a summary of Bridget McKenzie’s speech at ‘Museums Facing Extinction’ Conference on November 16th 2020. — Usually, a museum is considered a warehouse where collections are made available in one space. Now, gradually, according to Bridget McKenzie — founding director of Climate Museum UK, it is beginning to evolve into active communities that require the participation of other people. Climate Museum UK is a distributed, mobile…

This is a summary of Ewa Chomicka’s speech at ‘Museums Facing Extinction’ Conference on November 16th 2020. — When analyzing the power of bottom-up and cross-organizational initiatives, we need to begin by considering the three crucial questions raised by Ewa Chomicka, Manager of Museum Practices Lab at POLIN Museum, which are: How can we cooperate? How can we organize our forces? How can we join our forces in everyday activities for climate and pro-ecological initiatives?

This is a summary of Annesofie Norn’s speech at ‘Museums Facing Extinction’ Conference on November 16th 2020. — Culture is extraordinarily powerful. In the unification of museums worldwide, what matters is localization. Through experimental and creative partnerships in more than 30 countries in the last few, Annesofie Norn, curator at UN Live — Museum for the United Nations, and her team have discovered that to reach the centre of people’s passion, identity…