BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20221027T190000Z DTEND:20221027T200000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Is the NFT Revolution Over? DESCRIPTION:Is the NFT revolution simply over? \n\n \n\n"NFT Market Generated Over $23 Billion In Trading Volume In 2021" (Forbes\, 23 December 2021). If 2021 went down in the annals of crypto history as the year of NFTs\, with digital pictures of bored apes selling for tens of millions of dollars to such celebrities as Snoop Dogg\, Justin Bieber\, or Gwyneth Paltrow\, 2022 will be remembered as their market shake-up\, with the Apes' value falling by 78%. As the market consolidates\, the moment is ripe to revisit the 2021 crypto and NFTs craze and reimagine what the future lies for them.\n\n \n\nWhether digital monkeys are headed for their doom or not\, or whether the industry really is just in a winter\, the Century City Arts Council has invited three NFT experts to describe how NFTs work\, what they are\, why they are still relevant in 2022 and beyond. We hope to also discuss NFTs as a new art form and their role in reshaping both the art market and art collecting practices. \n\n \n\n \n\nMuriel Quancard is a contemporary art curator\, appraiser\, and strategic consultant\, invested in helping artists\, collectors and arts organizations define new paradigms. A fervent advocate of technology driven practices\, she lectures and consults on complex phenomena such as computer-generated art\, AI powered processes\, augmented and virtual reality\, blockchain and NFT. Muriel curated exhibitions\, festivals and commissioned artworks globally collaborating with such prestigious institutions as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris\, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Museum of Art. Previously\, Muriel worked as an art advisor and served as a Senior Director for the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York. Muriel is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America in post-war\, contemporary\, and emerging art\, and a member of their newly formed NFT committee.\n\n \n\nPeter Wu+ generates artworks and immersive environments utilizing modeling and rendering software\, projection mapping\, 3D printing\, and machine learning. Through speculative fiction\, Wu+ investigates our estrangement associated with technological advancement and modernity. Wu+'s work examines how technology can alter and influence our perceptions of identity\, reality\, and history. In 2020\, he founded and created EPOCH\, an artist-run virtual experiment that functions as an inclusive community building platform inviting established and emerging artists working in both digital and analog mediums to participate. Being primarily artist-centric\, EPOCH has established itself as a virtual destination that challenges the status quo with its critical and innovative approach to curation and exhibition building. In 2019\, Wu+ was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Public Art Division commission with Los Angeles World Airports Arts Exhibition Program to be completed in 2022. \n\n\n\nSarah Conley Odenkirk\n is a Partner at Cowan\, DeBaets\, Abrahams & Sheppard\, LLP\, and Co-Head of the Art Law and NFT practice group\, with a core practice in fine art\, and emerging technologies. She is based in the firm's Beverly Hills office where she advises a wide range of clients including artists\, digital platforms\, collectors\, dealers\, art institutions\, and other creative innovators to guide them in matters pertaining to fine art and navigating the art market\; NFTs and blockchain\; business affairs and strategic planning\; public art and policy\; and copyright and intellectual property. Sarah is an adjunct professor at University of Southern California (USC) teaching the Art Law course\, and at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) teaching the Legal Foundations in Art Law course. Previously\, Sarah served as Associate Director and Professor for the Sotheby's Institute of Art's Art Business and Arts Management Masters Programs at CGU where she was instrumental in curriculum development\, management of adjunct faculty\, administering of internship programs\; and taught Legal Foundations for the Creative Industries (Art Law)\, Cultural Property and Restitution\, International Transactions\, and Public Art. In addition to her practice\, Sarah serves as co-president of the board of directors for Fulcrum Arts\; and sits on the Advisory Council for the Arts at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Sarah is the author of A Surprisingly Interesting Book About Contracts for Artists and Other Creatives.\n\n\n\nMembers $10\, Non-Members $15. Noon PST. Register to receive the Zoom link. \n\n\n\nSponsored by \n\n\n Mary Williams - Realtor\, Coldwell Banker\n\n\n\n\n Michael Heumann - Art Attorney & Advisor\n\n\n\n\n Michael Douglas Carlin - Documentary Film Director X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Is the NFT revolution simply over?
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\n&ldquo\;NFT Market Generated Over $23 Billion In Trading Volume In 2021&rdquo\; (Forbes\, 23 December 2021). If 2021 went down in the annals of crypto history as the year of NFTs\, with digital pictures of bored apes selling for tens of millions of dollars to such celebrities as Snoop Dogg\, Justin Bieber\, or Gwyneth Paltrow\, 2022 will be remembered as their market shake-up\, with the Apes&rsquo\; value falling by 78%. As the market consolidates\, the moment is ripe to revisit the 2021 crypto and NFTs craze and reimagine what the future lies for them.
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\nWhether digital monkeys are headed for their doom or not\, or whether the industry really is just in a winter\, the Century City Arts Council has invited three NFT experts to describe how NFTs work\, what they are\, why they are still relevant in 2022 and beyond. We hope to also discuss NFTs as a new art form and their role in reshaping both the art market and art collecting practices. \;
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\nMuriel Quancard is a contemporary art curator\, appraiser\, and strategic consultant\, invested in helping artists\, collectors and arts organizations define new paradigms. A fervent advocate of technology driven practices\, she lectures and consults on complex phenomena such as computer-generated art\, AI powered processes\, augmented and virtual reality\, blockchain and NFT. Muriel curated exhibitions\, festivals and commissioned artworks globally collaborating with such prestigious institutions as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris\, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Museum of Art. Previously\, Muriel worked as an art advisor and served as a Senior Director for the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York. Muriel is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America in post-war\, contemporary\, and emerging art\, and a member of their newly formed NFT committee.
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\nPeter Wu+ generates artworks and immersive environments utilizing modeling and rendering software\, projection mapping\, 3D printing\, and machine learning. Through speculative fiction\, Wu+ investigates our estrangement associated with technological advancement and modernity. Wu+&rsquo\;s work examines how technology can alter and influence our perceptions of identity\, reality\, and history. In 2020\, he founded and created EPOCH\, an artist-run virtual experiment that functions as an inclusive community building platform inviting established and emerging artists working in both digital and analog mediums to participate. Being primarily artist-centric\, EPOCH has established itself as a virtual destination that challenges the status quo with its critical and innovative approach to curation and exhibition building. In 2019\, Wu+ was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Public Art Division commission with Los Angeles World Airports Arts Exhibition Program to be completed in 2022. \;
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\nSarah Conley Odenkirk\n
 \;is a Partner at Cowan\, DeBaets\, Abrahams &\; Sheppard\, LLP\, and Co-Head of the Art Law and NFT practice group\, with a core practice in fine art\, and emerging technologies. \; She is based in the firm&rsquo\;s Beverly Hills office where she advises a wide range of clients including artists\, digital platforms\, collectors\, dealers\, art institutions\, and other creative innovators to guide them in matters pertaining to fine art and navigating the art market\; NFTs and blockchain\; business affairs and strategic planning\; public art and policy\; and copyright and intellectual property. \; Sarah is an adjunct professor at University of Southern California (USC) teaching the Art Law course\, and at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) teaching the Legal Foundations in Art Law course. \; Previously\, Sarah served as Associate Director and Professor for the Sotheby&rsquo\;s Institute of Art&rsquo\;s Art Business and Arts Management Masters Programs at CGU where she was instrumental in curriculum development\, management of adjunct faculty\, administering of internship programs\; and taught Legal Foundations for the Creative Industries (Art Law)\, Cultural Property and Restitution\, International Transactions\, and Public Art. In addition to her practice\, Sarah serves as co-president of the board of directors for Fulcrum Arts\; and sits on the Advisory Council for the Arts at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Sarah is the author of A Surprisingly Interesting Book About Contracts for Artists and Other Creatives.
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\nMembers $10\, Non-Members $15. Noon PST. \; Register to receive the Zoom link. \;
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