On the final day of the Art Dubai Talks 2023 series, the 5th of March, five panel discussions will be held.
Shifting The Ground: Collecting On-Chain
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Led by Chris Fussner, Founder of Tropical Futures Institute and a designer, the conversation will focus on how the latest innovations on and around blockchain infrastructure are transforming collection building and archiving. Georg Bak (Digital Art Advisor) and Etan Genini (CEO and Co-Founder of Valuart) will be among the participants.
Digital Visual Cultures: Then and Now
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The panel will bring together those connected with the art world who have been working on new media art before and since the dawn of NFTs. One will be able to learn about the present media environment and how the conditions for making and presenting digital art have changed in recent years. The discussion will feature Andrea Macruz (a product designer who studies Nature and Advanced Computational Science), Abigail Miller (Associate Director, Unit London), Yoichi Ochiai (a digital media artist, a scholar, entrepreneur, and media influencer), and Chris Fussner as a moderator.
Presenting Dubai Public Art
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The discussion will be centered on Dubai Public Art, the new government initiative. Within this programme, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority will encourage Emirati artists to expand their practice in public art by working together with Tashkeel, Alserkal, Art Jameel, and Akaas Visual Arts. The art organisations will issue open calls to all artists, offering them the platform to present a series of site-specific art installations.
The artists chosen for the inaugural commission will take part in the panel.
Unpacking the Changing Landscape of Public Art Commission
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Iwona Blazwick (Chair of the Royal Commission for Al-‘Ula’s Public Art Expert Panel), Mariam Zulfiqar (Director of Artangel), and Sherry Dobbin (Global Cultural Advisor) will share their opinion on the future of public art and the part it plays in shaping communities and public spaces.
Bawwaba Roundtable Session
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
The roundtable will include Vipash Purichanont, Curator of AB2023’s Bawwaba section featuring new work by artists from the Global South, and artists from this section. The session will give one an opportunity to learn about the art practices of these artists. Although informed by various context, they all seek to make visible the level of skill which creating artworks involves while such qualities of workmanship and artistry are disappearing.
To learn more about Art Dubai Talks, please visit the event’s official web page.
