NFT, or a poetics of Non-Fixed Time
Published on April 20th, 2023
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he 2-day symposium NEW LANDSCAPES. NFTs AND THE MUSEUM will present new collecting strategies and curatorial concepts of NFTs in museums, analyse ethics and dynamics of DAOs as well as generative work in analogue and digital space.
21-22 April 2023
The 2-day symposium NEW LANDSCAPES. NFTs AND THE MUSEUM will present new collecting strategies and curatorial concepts of NFTs in museums, analyse ethics and dynamics of DAOs as well as generative work in analogue and digital space, in short: it is about a critical examination of NFTs, blockchain and new technologies. The symposium will focus on the new way art museums deal with NFTs and what this can mean for the future of museums, from new collection concepts and legal innovations to questions of restitution. The symposium will be accompanied by two workshops and will be held entirely in English.
Programme
Thursday 20 April 2023
19:00 h Exhibition opening Rafaël Rozendaal. Color, Code, Communication
22:00 h DJ Set Performance LEGOWELT/Danny Wolfers, Goethebunker
Friday 21 April 2023
Moderator: Tristan Littlejohn
10:00 h Welcome/Introduction Peter Gorschlüter/Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer
10:30 h Tristan Littlejohn, Berlin
11:00 h Studiovisit Harm van den Dorpel, Berlin
11:30 h Philippe Bettinelli, Curator Neue Medien, Centre Pompidou
12:15 h Studiovisit Auriea Harvey (online)
13:00 h Lunch break
The Poetics of NFTs
Moderator: Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer
14:00 h Domenico Quaranta, Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara
14:45 h Studiovisit Linda Dounia
15:15 h Annet Dekker, University of Amsterdam
15:45 h Meike Hopp, Juniorprof. TU Berlin für Digitale Provenienzforschung
16:15 h Alexander Koch, Berlin
17:00 h Break
17:30 h Workshops Tristan Littlejohn and others
19:00 h Exhibition tour with Rafaël Rozendaal & Thomas Seelig
Saturday 22 April 2023
NFTs and New Collection Strategies
Moderator: Thomas Seelig
10:30 h Saskia Draxler, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne
11:00 h Studiovisit Florian Kuhlmann, Düsseldorf
11:30 h Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum, New York City
12:00 h Katharina Garbers-von Boehm, Berlin
12:30 h Lunch break
NFTs: Museum’s Future?
Moderator: Mathilde Heitmann-Taillefer
13:30 h Erick Calderon, art blocks, New York City (online)
14:15 h Studiovisit Simon Denny, Berlin
15:15 h cUgo Pecoraio, HEK, Basel
15:45 h Round Table: Rafaël Rozendaal, Domenico Quaranta, Christiane Paul, Annet
Dekker, Alexander Koch
NFT, OR A POETICS OF NON-FIXED TIME
As a unique digital identifier that cannot be copied, substituted or subdivided, NFT can be said to fix time as its ownership is recorded on the blockchain at a particular moment. On the other hand, as part of the digital blockchain, NFT is also connected to other temporalities like compression time, process time, or rendering time. Unlike a Cartesian notion of time, computing time is not linear, but rather a complex mix of past memories and future predictions. This opens up the possibility of developing potentially unlimited temporal experiences. Artists, such as, Nascent, Jan Robert Leegte, Noor Nuyten, Lee Tzu Tung & Winnie Soon, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Sarah Friend pursue a poetics of dynamic time in a non-fungible condition. While playing with various disjunctions of technical, social, and political regimes they challenge our understanding of fixed time. Yet, how do these experiments endure Cartesian time?
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