The New Art Fest & António Cerveira Pinto is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Under the pandemic Who’s going to build the black masterpiece about the horrors of viral disintegration. Of anyone’s death caused by a virus? Does it matter? Somehow, humans are becoming prey either of semi-living creatures or falling into…
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Under the pandemic
TNAF_20_21House of thoughtsUnder the Pandemic Who’s going to build the black masterpiece about the horrors of viral disintegration? Of anyone’s death caused by a virus? Does it matter? Somehow, humans are becoming prey either of semi-living creatures or falling into deception on an unprecedented scale. The so-called Anthropocene on its last leg seems to be…
NFTs take off/ speakers
+ Berk Özdemir Berk Özdemir, or berk aka PrincessCamel, is a multidisciplinary artist, a composer, producer, performer, multimedia artist and creative coder born in Amsterdam (NL), raised in Istambul (TR) and now living in Den Haag (NL). Main musical studies at Istambul University State Conservatory (Piano, 1997-2000), Mimar Sinan University of Fine Art, Istambul State…
NFTs take off
“I’d love to mint something with you” – Tamiko Thiel. #thenewartfestThe House of ThoughtsNFTs take off Virtual conferenceSeptember 15, 2021 Brussels 16:00Lisbon and London 15:00New York 10:00Hong Kong 22:00 Panel discussion Berk Özdemir +Kevin McCoy +Robert Alice + Moderator António Cerveira PintoTNAF Artistic Director NFTs take off_intro Is the art world moving into a singular…
Edmond Belamy
The portrait in its gilt frame depicts a portly gentleman, possibly French and — to judge by his dark frockcoat and plain white collar — a man of the church. The work appears unfinished: the facial features are somewhat indistinct and there are blank areas of canvas. Oddly, the whole composition is displaced slightly to…
Let’s talk about NFTs
“I’d love to mint something with you” — Tamiko Thiel In the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art New York. Commissioned for the exhibition: “Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018“September 28, 2018 – April 14, 2019 NFTs brought digital art (generative, AI, robotic, and so on) to a completely new realm of…
NFTs take off
The House of Thoughts NFTs take off “I’d love to mint something with you” – Tamiko Thiel. Virtual conferenceSeptember 15, 2021 Brussels 16:00Lisbon 15:00New York 10:00Hong Kong 22:00 Panel discussion Berk ÖzdemirKevin McCoyRobert Alice Moderator Antonio Cerveira PintoTNAF Artistic Director After the successful edition of 2020, a unique online conference on crypto-art and NFTs will…
Live from Hong Kong
Look at me in the eyes In these uncertain times, for many reasons, Hong Kong is a physical and mental crossroad of civilisations. I have been reading two marvellous books by bestselling author Rutger Bregman: Utopia for Realists (2017), and Human Kind (2020). They both tell us that humans are friendly animals. And that cooperation…
BIT STREET Hong Kong 香港BIT街
A Cross-platform Collaboration between The New Art Fest ’20 and Content Lab empowered by Videotage. Date: August 7 – 11 , 2020Co-presented by: The New Art Fest ’20 & VideotageCurator: Isaac Leung. During COVID-19 pandemic, our lives have significantly changed. We had to rethink our daily routines while practising social distancing. For more than half…
MAKER ART Pandemia
Maker Art – Pandemia 167 accepted applications from around the world; 50 selected artists. The New Art Fest is in its fourth edition. This time, and against the psychosis caused by a virus, we decided to raise the stakes: everything online, and an international ‘open call’ in full worldwide closure. One hundred sixty-seven candidates responded….
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