Ulrich Schrauth joins Unlocked to explore how digital art becomes a lived experience. From his theatre background to curating the UBS Digital Art Museum Hamburg and Art Dubai Digital, Ulrich shares how he bridges art, technology, and emotion. We talk about new audiences, hybrid works that connect physical and digital worlds, and how collecting is shifting from ownership to collaboration.
A deep dive into the evolution of generative art with curator and entrepreneur Sofia Garcia, founder of ArtXCode. From her unexpected path into creative coding to reshaping how artists are represented, Sofia reveals how digital art is challenging the traditional market. We explore the rise of agency-model support for artists, collector dynamics, and CodeArt - the initiative empowering young girls to create with technology. An inspiring look at the present and future of digital culture.
Co-founder of The Sandbox, Sébastien Borget shares his journey from gaming to collecting, and how digital worlds are reshaping art. From the origins of The Sandbox to the creation of Artverse in Paris, he explores what connects artists and collectors today — and why digital art is becoming the new cultural frontier.
Curator Marlene Wenger shares her journey from traditional art spaces to leading the House of Electronic Arts (HEK) in Basel. In this conversation, she unpacks the challenges and possibilities of digital art, the importance of media literacy, and how institutions can embrace emerging technologies like AI. A deep dive into curating with curiosity, relevance, and imagination in a fast-evolving world.
In this episode of Unlocked, artist Cezar Mocan explores how digital art can dissect systems of control. Speaking with Delfina Sena, he unpacks the politics of game engines, the aesthetics of AI, and how emotional resonance and poetic slowness can interrupt dominant technological narratives.
From financial analyst to crypto artist and worldbuilder, Josie Bellini has helped shape the NFT space from its earliest days. In this episode, she shares how her background in finance and deep dive into the crypto world led her to create iconic projects such as CyberBrokers, one of the first fully on-chain avatar collections. Josie talks about the importance of digital permanence, building immersive lore with her community, and why ownership, accessibility, and collaboration are redefining how we experience art in the Web3 era.
At OFFICE IMPART, Anne Schwanz and Johanna Neuschäffer propose a new vision for what a gallery can be today: a flexible, hybrid model that prioritizes mediation over physical space. Drawing from deep experience in the traditional art world, they challenge outdated structures by embracing both digital and analog art on equal footing, cultivating trust across different generations of collectors. Their approach points to a future where collaboration, adaptability, and technology are essential to the art ecosystem.
Curator and advisor Marlene Corbun shares what it means to act as a true mediator in today’s art world - guiding artists in the creative process, educating collectors over time, and building bridges between traditional institutions and emerging Web3 practices. With over a decade of experience, from White Cube and Christie’s to her current role as Head Curator at laCollection, Marlene reflects on how digital and physical art are not in opposition, but in dialogue. Her practice is a rare mix of care, precision, and vision for what contemporary collecting can become.
Collector, entrepreneur, and maker Erin Saluti shares her unique journey across the worlds of historical preservation, crypto art, and contemporary design. In this episode, she talks about why living with art matters, how craftsmanship and technology can merge, and how collecting is also a way of shaping the future.
For Rudolfo Quintas, technology and emotions are inseparable. Working in his Lisbon-based studio with neuroscientists, psychologists, perfumers, choreographers, data scientists, and filmmakers, Quintas incorporated AI into his work as early as 2001 to investigate the impact of information and communication overload on mental health, and the implications of autonomous systems of power and control in democracy.
Curator of Art Dubai Digital 2025, Gonzalo Herrero Delicado joins us to discuss the fourth edition of the fair's sector, which explores how artists are using digital technologies to respond to today’s most pressing issues. Based in London, Gonzalo also works with Serpentine Galleries and teaches at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. In this episode, he discusses how the fair will bridge digital and contemporary art through large-scale public commissions, and the role of artists in addressing the climate crisis.
Artist, curator, and strategist Diane Drubay shares her journey through digital art, sustainability, and emotional scenography. From low-tech exhibitions to the power of stillness, this episode invites us to rethink how we experience art and technology — and how to slow down in a fast-paced world.
Nina Roehrs, curator of the digital art sector at Paris Photo 2024, explores how digital art thrives in the attention economy—a world where constant streams of content compete for engagement. By addressing societal issues and leveraging technology, digital art invites interaction and creates new opportunities for connection. Learn how this art can be exhibited and experienced in innovative ways today.
Humans wanting to play God: The machine artist Botto produces 7,000 works a week, challenging traditional notions of authorship, creativity, and agency. But it doesn’t work alone—its evolution and output are guided by a global community that votes on which final pieces are worthy of becoming art. Simon Hudson, who oversees the strategic direction of the project, explains how Botto is a microcosm of the global debate on AI governance.
"You have got to keep a plastic mind," says artist Ry David Bradley in this thought-provoking episode about the future of art. Exploring AI’s mind-blowing potential and blockchain’s role in securing provenance, Bradley envisions a world where technology continually redefines creativity. With a deep connection to internet culture, he highlights the brilliance in AI-driven art and predicts a future where NFTs become the standard for buying and selling works, reshaping how we experience and value art.
Drawing on a lifelong fascination with science and creativity, Sasha Stiles sees both poetry and technology as powerful tools for exploring feelings that can’t always be expressed. In this episode, Sasha shares her thoughts on using small texts to evoke big ideas, how technology helps us understand ourselves, and the evolving role of social media in reshaping how we connect through words.
For Daniel Canogar, generative art is the medium most in sync with the times we live in—it captures the endless rhythm of information we consume daily. The Spanish artist admits to his own addiction to news while reflecting on his early fascination with the photographic development process in the darkroom of his childhood home. Now, through his morning ritual of journaling creative ideas, Canogar and his 11-person team transform seemingly simple concepts into some of the most innovative live-generated data artworks today.
Curator, art collector, and co-founder of MONO—a Tunis-based micro-gallery championing digital art—Kenza Zouari discusses AI's transformative power, its biases, and its potential to reshape creative expression. She shares her work in elevating underrepresented voices and her latest curatorial project for Janou Tunis, featuring Rima Hassan's photographs of Palestinian refugees. In “Fragments of Home,” Kenza explores various AI narratives to question how we consume, process, and share stories of displacement in our digital age.
For Eli Scheinman, building communities is not just about fostering conversations around art—it’s about creating meaningful connections that resonate with life itself. As Head of Art at Proof and Director of Art at Yuga Labs, Scheinman discusses the importance of authentic relationships in the art world and how they enrich the experience of collecting.
The friction humans create on Earth: that’s one of the obsessions explored by Spanish artist Solimán López, whose groundbreaking projects connect diverse disciplines like physics, astronomy, biotechnology, and digital art. He is also the founder of the Harddiskmuseum, a repository for contemporary thinking. For him, collecting and analyzing data is the only way humankind can look back and learn from its mistakes—so that we do not repeat them in the future.