ART & VAULT

Exploring the ideas, artists, and movements shaping digital culture.

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🎙️ ART VOICES 002

Who Decides What Matters in Art Today?

Artists create the work.

Collectors assign value.

Curators provide context.

Institutions preserve history.

Media shapes attention.

Algorithms influence visibility.

Yet cultural significance rarely belongs to any one group.

Join us for a conversation with:

• Gretchen Andrew (@gretchenandrew) — Artist, writer, and former Silicon Valley engineer whose work explores AI, search systems, power structures, and cultural influence. Her work has been exhibited internationally and collected by major institutions and private collections.

• Brian Beccafico (@Arthemort) — Curator, collector, and former Head of Digital Art at Sotheby’s Paris, where he helped shape conversations around collecting, cultural value, and the future of digital art.

• Dorian Batycka (@temp_projects) — International journalist, editor, and curator whose work has been published by The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, and Frieze. Through his writing and curatorial practice, he examines the cultural impact of technology, media, and contemporary art.

Hosted by:

• Elena Zavelev (@Elena_Zavelev) — Head of Growth & Development at HUG, educator, curator, former co-founder of CADAF (@art_cadaf), and faculty member at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (@SothebysInst). Her work focuses on connecting artists, collectors, institutions, and emerging technologies while helping shape the evolving digital art ecosystem.

• Farrah Carbonell (@FARRAHXYZ) — Founder & Artistic Director of ART & VAULT, curator, artist, and advocate for artists working at the intersection of art, technology, and emerging culture.

Together, we'll explore:

→ What creates lasting value in art today?
→ How are institutions approaching digital culture?
→ What role do visibility, networks, and algorithms play in shaping cultural significance?
→ What are we collectively overlooking right now?

📅 Thursday, June 25
⏰ 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM CEST

Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

The conversation is free and open to all.

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The art world feels more connected than ever. And perhaps more fragmented.

So how do certain artists, ideas, and works rise above the noise? A timely conversation for ART VOICES tomorrow.

📅 Thursday, June 25
11 AM ET
8 AM PT
5 PM CEST

📺 LIVE on YouTube

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Quantum Spirit
@JenPanepinto

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Pixel art | Rainy day
Artist: @AnasAbdin

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🎙️ ART VOICES 002

Who Decides What Matters in Art Today?

Artists create the work.

Collectors assign value.

Curators provide context.

Institutions preserve history.

Media shapes attention.

Algorithms influence visibility.

Yet cultural significance rarely belongs to any one group.

Join us for a conversation with:

• Gretchen Andrew (@gretchenandrew) — Artist, writer, and former Silicon Valley engineer whose work explores AI, search systems, power structures, and cultural influence. Her work has been exhibited internationally and collected by major institutions and private collections.

• Brian Beccafico (@Arthemort) — Curator, collector, and former Head of Digital Art at Sotheby’s Paris, where he helped shape conversations around collecting, cultural value, and the future of digital art.

• Dorian Batycka (@temp_projects) — International journalist, editor, and curator whose work has been published by The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, and Frieze. Through his writing and curatorial practice, he examines the cultural impact of technology, media, and contemporary art.

Hosted by:

• Elena Zavelev (@Elena_Zavelev) — Head of Growth & Development at HUG, educator, curator, former co-founder of CADAF (@art_cadaf), and faculty member at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (@SothebysInst). Her work focuses on connecting artists, collectors, institutions, and emerging technologies while helping shape the evolving digital art ecosystem.

• Farrah Carbonell (@FARRAHXYZ) — Founder & Artistic Director of ART & VAULT, curator, artist, and advocate for artists working at the intersection of art, technology, and emerging culture.

Together, we'll explore:

→ What creates lasting value in art today?
→ How are institutions approaching digital culture?
→ What role do visibility, networks, and algorithms play in shaping cultural significance?
→ What are we collectively overlooking right now?

📅 Thursday, June 25
⏰ 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM CEST

Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

The conversation is free and open to all.

[Sasha Stiles | AI alter ego Technelegy ✍️🤖 @sashastiles]

i’m so tired of people saying i use AI to write poetry.

i use poetry to interrogate AI (along with many other technologies) and explore what they’re doing to language, identity, relationships, community, creativity, consciousness — how what it means to be human is changing.

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Art history is often written in retrospect.

Our first ART VOICES conversation explored how digital art might build a lasting cultural legacy.

Featuring @annespalter
Hosted by @Elena_Zavelev and @FARRAHXYZ

📺 Watch the replay on YouTube.
Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

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🎙️ ART VOICES #002

Visibility is not the same as significance.

As artists, curators, collectors, platforms, and algorithms all compete for attention, what determines lasting cultural value?

Join Gretchen Andrew (@gretchenandrew), Brian Beccafico (@Arthemort), and Dorian Batycka (@temp_projects).

📅 Thursday, June 25
🕚 11:00 AM ET
🕗 8:00 AM PT
🕔 5:00 PM CEST

📺 Live on YouTube

Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

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🎙️ ART VOICES #002

Who decides what matters in art today?

Artists? Curators? Collectors? Institutions? Platforms? Algorithms?

As cultural influence becomes increasingly distributed, the question of value—and who gets to define it—has never been more relevant.

Join:
• Gretchen Andrew (@gretchenandrew)
• Brian Beccafico (@Arthemort)
• Dorian Batycka (@temp_projects)

Hosted by:
@Elena_Zavelev × @FARRAHXYZ

📅 June 25
🕚 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT / 5 PM CEST

Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

📺 Live on YouTube

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🎙️ ART VOICES #002

Who Decides What Matters in Art Today?

Not long ago, cultural value flowed through a relatively small group of gatekeepers. Today, influence is distributed across artists, collectors, curators, media platforms, online communities, and increasingly, algorithms.

The result is a cultural landscape that is more open, more complex, and constantly evolving.

Join us for a conversation with:

• Gretchen Andrew (@gretchenandrew) — Artist exploring the intersection of art, AI, technology, and culture

• Brian Beccafico (@Arthemort) — Curator, Collector & Art Advisor

• Dorian Batycka (@temp_projects) — Journalist, Editor & Curator covering digital culture, crypto, blockchain, and contemporary art

Together, we’ll examine the forces shaping contemporary art—and the ideas, voices, and works that may define what comes next.

→ What creates lasting value in digital art?
→ Who decides what becomes culturally significant?
→ What role does visibility play in shaping cultural significance?
→ What are we collectively overlooking right now?

Hosted by:

Elena Zavelev (@Elena_Zavelev) — Head of Growth & Development at HUG, educator, curator, and former Co-Founder of @art_cadaf.

Farrah Carbonell (@FARRAHXYZ) — Founder & Artistic Director of ART & VAULT, artist and curator working across contemporary art, technology, and culture.

📅 Thursday, June 25
🕚 11:00 AM ET
🕗 8:00 AM PT
🕔 5:00 PM CEST

Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

📺 Watch live on YouTube

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🎙️ ART VOICES #002

Who Decides What Matters in Art Today?

Artists, collectors, curators, critics, and the forces shaping cultural value.

As digital art enters a new phase—defined by AI, evolving institutions, shifting collector behavior, and a maturing market—we bring together three voices from across the contemporary art landscape to explore the ideas shaping its future.

Featuring:

• Gretchen Andrew @gretchenandrew — Artist
• Brian Beccafico @Arthemort — Curator, Collector & Art Advisor
• Dorian Batycka @temp_projects — Journalist & Curator

Hosts

Elena Zavelev (@Elena_Zavelev) — Head of Growth and Development at HUG, educator, curator, and former co-founder of CADAF.

Farrah Carbonell (@FARRAHXYZ) — Founder and Artistic Director of ART & VAULT, artist and curator focused on contemporary art, technology, and culture.

Topics include:

→ What creates lasting value in digital art?
→ How are institutions approaching digital art today?
→ What role does visibility play in shaping cultural significance?
→ What are we collectively overlooking right now?

📅 Thursday, June 25
🕚 11:00 AM ET
🕗 8:00 AM PT
🕔 5:00 PM CEST

Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains

📺 Watch live on YouTube: https://t.co/Fn1285jEGz

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“I personally find it takes just as much time to create a good work with AI as with paint or any other medium.” — @annespalter

Anne Spalter has spent decades working at the intersection of art and technology—as an artist, educator, author, and collector of early digital art.

Her observation points to a larger question.

Throughout art history, new technologies have often been judged by what they automate rather than by what they enable. Photography, film, video, software, and now AI have each challenged prevailing ideas about skill, authorship, originality, and artistic labor.

Yet art has never been defined solely by the production of an image.

It is also selection, rejection, revision, context, intention, and judgment.

The tool may accelerate certain actions. It does not eliminate the decisions.

Perhaps the question is not whether AI can generate an image.

The question is: where does authorship reside?

Or, as Anne's observation suggests, are we still asking the wrong questions?

From our inaugural Art Voices conversation with Anne Spalter.

Full conversation below.
Presented by @artandvault × @theHUGart × @Art_Domains