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FAE3 Art x Decentralised tech

The plan is to —
share updates on how we are expanding FAE as a project for the construction of 21st century cultural infrastructure; have Nick Meehan and Joanna Petkiewicz (Institute for Sound and Music, Berlin, SUPER- POSITION) talk about the development of a new organisational bridge model and entity designed to support ISM liquidity, members- hip, ownership and audience engagement using web3 tools for licensing and distributing shares; invite you to share feedback and/or your experience with new ownership and distribution models for creative practice. Pls email us before 6pm GMT on Wednesday 29 March if you‘d like to briefly introduce your project

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Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) is a project for building 21st century cultural infrastructure: the systems that support the production, distribution and financialisation of art and advanced technologies as a whole, and respond to a broader societal agenda. This project is embedded in the Arts Technologies team at Serpentine. Through briefings , R&D Labs and a growing community FAE is sketching out and prototyping strategies for art and advanced tech (AxAT) to serve the public.

Art practices intermediate between contemporary culture, technology and society. Both as processes and outcomes, they demonstrate the variety of roles that art can play in innovation, advocacy, creation of civic spaces and collective imaginaries. As the team at Serpentine working specifically with emerging tech, our work focuses how art and advanced technologies (AxAT) ecosystems offer supportive contexts for interrogating and reimagining technology as a social and creative medium in societies where technological development is largely driven by interests of commerce and control.

In 2018, when the idea of the Future Art Ecosystems project was first born, we were inspired by a new generation of artists working directly with advanced technologies: AI, simulation technologies, synthetic materials, etc. Analysis of their activities and approaches suggested an urgent need for a long- term strategic vision for an art ecosystems dedicated specifically to the advancement of art x advanced technologies (AxAT) with a public mission.

Launched to the public in 2020 with R&D Labs , the Future Art Ecosystems strategic briefing series has been crystallising nascent dynamics and opportunities in relationship to AxAT. To this extent, FAE briefings provide concepts, references, language and arguments that can be integrated into operational agendas for 21st-century cultural infrastructure: the systems that support the production, distribution and sustainability of art and advanced technologies as a whole, and respond to a broader societal agenda.

The work of Future Art Ecosystems serves as a foundation for new organisational experimentation (from A B). In all of this work we are focused on four mandates [link to mandates page] which will propel
us toward a public-mission-driven AxAT ecosystem: advanced production capabilities, organisational interoperability, new ownership and distribution models, and new systems of measurement.

In addition to continuing our annual briefings , hosting R&D labs , FAE now unites, platforms and propels efforts that are directed towards building out new systems through live, collaborative projects .

Importantly, this must necessarily be a shared vision and process, because the challenges and opportunities in play are systemic; they extend beyond the interests of any one artist, cultural institution, tech corporation, government agency, etc.

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Labs

Labs are Serpentine‘s instantiation of the Future Art Ecosystems agenda through various areas of strategic importance.

Legal LabLegal Lab prototypes how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology.
Creative AI LabCreative AI Lab researches the changing nature of artistic practices that use AI and link this work to AI development in the public interest.
Blockchain LabBlockchain Lab networks artists, cultural workers, blockchain entrepreneurs and local initiatives to foster a new systems of cooperation within the arts.
Synthetic Ecology LabSynthetic Ecology Lab supports art’s critical inquiry and intervention into bio tech and ecology.
Impact

Future Art Ecosystems is shaping how we are thinking about supporting artists and institutions.

— HEAD OF INNOVATION, BRITISH COUNCIL

Future Art Ecosystems is shaping how we are thinking about supporting artists and institutions.

— HEAD OF INNOVATION, BRITISH COUNCIL2

Future Art Ecosystems is shaping how we are thinking about supporting artists and institutions.

— HEAD OF INNOVATION, BRITISH COUNCIL3

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