Abstract

This lecture will explore Blockchain’s origins and its role as an artistic medium and distribution tool. Furthermore, how has blockchain catalyzed art markets and museological practices? How has it revitalized an interest in the broader history of digital art and what are its limitations?

Bio

cactoidlabs.io, is an experimental artist-driven blockchain consultancy specializing in bridging Web3, Digital Art and Museums lead by Lady Cactoid and Crypto Cactoid. _______An artist and co-founder of Cactoid Labs, Crypto Cactoid is a Full Stack developer specializing in blockchain, Solidity, Ordinals, Machine Learning and APIs, with 15 years experience working with metadata at scale, engineering SAAS systems that operate billions of API calls per month, as well as Merkle Trees, ERC721A, ERC1155, and L2s. He has built Contracts and Full Stack Web3 for leading artists and institutions including 0xDEAFBEEF and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art._______Lady Cactoid (a.k.a. Yael Lipschutz) is a curator, art historian and co-founder of Cactoid Labs. She holds a PhD in Art History and has organized large-scale exhibitions at institutions such as the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the and The Getty. She works as an independent curator and scholar, specializing in art and technology. She is the Artistic Director of the Digital Leaders Circle at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the author of numerous books and articles, including Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada (LACMA, Prestel), Cameron: Songs for the Witchwoman (The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles), and World Without End: The George Washington