The Arts: Virtualizing Reality, Embracing Humanity

Contemporary artists increasingly create and curate their works with new technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The emergent digital art purports to bring us disruption through dialogue with enlightened technologists. Where are the boundaries between technology and humanism – and even empathy? How to embrace a shared humanity with those new virtual forms of art?
• Lindsay Howard, Head of Community, Foundation, USA
• Matt Kane, Digital Artist, USA
• Ryan John King, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FOAM, USA
• Krista Kim, Founder, Techism; Global Ambassador Superworld; Co-founder, 888TNW, USA
• Alanna Roazzi-Laforet, Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer, Decrypt, USA
• Charlie Stein, Visual Artist, Germany
• Troy Conrad Therrien, Museum Curator and Architecture Adjunct, USA
Chaired by
• Simon Denny, Professor of Time-based Media, Hamburg University of Fine Arts, Germany