Some creatives ask WTF are NFTs? Others are ready to dive deep into unknown waters.
This panel explores the opportunities NFTs can provide to artists and creatives across different creative verticals.
Panelists include local artist Mia Forrest, Nick Hollins, Michelle Wang and Priscilla Koukoui
Capacity in the Dome is strictly limited - whilst this is a free event it is ticketed.
MIA FORREST - ARTIST
Mia’s work has been exhibited worldwide in such renowned spaces as the Vellum LA, Cannes AVIFF Art Festival, Queensland Film Festival and Aesthetica Film Festival.
This year she received the ‘Emerging Artist Award’ (Tweed Art Gallery) and have received multiple recognition as a Finalist in the Byron Art Prize, Photo Collective Australian Photography Awards and the Queensland Music Awards in the video category.
Mia’s collection of artworks in Bloom, she captured the hybridisation of time, technology, and nature – resulting in a series of digital still and moving images. The follow-up series, Bloom II, has been licensed to an LA-based architectural lighting design and digital media company.
MICHELLE WANG - OPERATIONS & STRATEGY MANAGER AT SUGAR GLIDER DIGITAL
Michelle has diverse and strategic expertise in the legal, consulting, fine arts and media industries. She brings her experience to Sugar Glider Digital, Australia's leading digital art and NFT platform, working alongside the prolific art curator Emilya Colliver, to champion the digital art revolution. Michelle regularly writes on film and culture for publications including The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Monthly Magazine.
Nick Hollins
Nick is the founder of Voyager, a DAO for art, music and counterculture with a focus on launching artists, musicians, and culture-bearers into web3 space.
He is a broadcaster, producer and presenter – publishing a new podcast on web3 platforms called UFO – a program for artists, musicians and web3 builders talk about the future. For several years he also hosted and produced an arts and culture program on FBi Radio.
PRISCILLA KOUKOUI
Passionate about art & innovation, Priscilla drives changes in organisations to create sustainable impacts. She explores emerging technologies, mainly Web3 and XR (VR&AR)/The Metaverse, new ways of working, living, playing and challenges the status quo with a voracious curiosity. She also empowers others to have positive impacts by creating stories to smell. Creative works have been exhibited in 9 art galleries.