Date & Time
Date: Fri 17 Mar 2023
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location
Lecture Theatre,
Block F Level 2 #F201,
LASALLE's McNally Campus
Admission
Free, RSVP here.
Type
Lecture / TalkThe seminar discusses innovative concepts at the intersections of blockchain technology like Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs). It will feature Kenza Zouari, curator and member of the Cyber Baat, as a guest speaker who will discuss the rise of digital collectivism as well as artistic, social and economical aspects of these emerging organisations.
About the speakers
Kenza Zouari is a curator and a collector. She is the co-founder and curator of MONO, a micro-gallery based in Tunis, Tunisia specialising in digital art. She is also part of the Cyber Baat DAO aiming at increasing the representation of artists of African descent in the NFT space as well as in the traditional art world
Jonathan Liu is a founding member of NFT Asia - an artist-led non-profit digital collective aimed at uplifting Asian and Asia-based artists. He graduated from London College of Communication with a BA in Photography and currently lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts.
About the seminar series Deep Dive into Emerging Tech
Deep Dive into Emerging Tech is organised by LASALLE's BA(Hons) Arts Management programme. It consists of four events aiming to explore such emerging technologies as blockchain, NFT and Metaverse to discuss and explore how they challenge, transform and innovate the contemporary arts ecosystem. Anyone interested in demystifying such buzzwords as NFT and Metaverse and better understand these phenomena is encouraged to book a seat and surface questions they have long wanted to ask.