Curating Tools with Marco Mancuso: Digital Art Market Evolutions

What obstacles hinder the sale of digital artworks? How does the act of collecting these artworks present difficulties for institutions? In this episode, we engage in a conversation with Marco Mancuso, an esteemed critic and curator of contemporary art who delves into the intersection of technology, science, design, architecture, and sound.

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About this episode:

Explore narratives surrounding the digital art market, artworks born in the digital realm, the visionaries propelling the digital art revolution, and those pushing the boundaries of the art market through innovative technologies.

This podcast is proudly sponsored by Call for Curators, empowering art professionals since 2012, and Node Center for Curatorial Studies, the pioneering e-learning platform for curators and art professionals established in 2009.

Meet our guest, Marco Mancuso, a critic and curator of contemporary art, in the relationship with technology and science and in the dialogue with the fields of design, architecture and sound. Founder and director of the Digicult project, he is a full professor at the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo, an adjunct professor at the Alma Mater University of Bologna and a visiting professor at the Node Curatorial Center in Berlin.

PhD in Digital Cultures at the Iuav University of Venice, he is interested in how the interdisciplinary discourse investigates the ways in which technoscience influences culture, society and the relationship between human beings and the context, observing the evolution of production, research and market of media art and digital art. Among the founders of the study center SSH! – Sound studies Hub at the Iuav University of Venice, he is part of the EMAP/EMARE Network and has published the books “Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza“ (2018) and “Intervista con la New Media Art“ (2020) for Mimesis Edizioni.

Our host ⁠Maria Cynkier⁠ is an independent curator and researcher working in the fields of art, ecology and digital culture. In her practice, she is concerned with new technologies’ social, political and material impacts on humans, non-humans and the environment. She often works within the framework of speculative storytelling and world-building tactics that enable critical dialogue.

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