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Photography of Alana Kushnir by Justin Ridler.

For more information about Guest Work Agency, please visit GWA's website.
To learn more about the Legal Lab Report, please visit Serpentine Legal Lab's website.

Show Notes:

2:30 Alana’s inspiration to merge curatorial and legal work into a single agency

5:50 Goldsmiths, University of London

9:30 curator and attorney Daniel McClean played a role in her creation of GWA

10:15 Daniel McClean’s books Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture and The Trials of Art

12:00 2017 exhibition Travelers: Stepping Into the Unknown at Osaka’s National Museum of Art

16:00 The Legal Bookshop

17:30 Traveler’s exhibition rose from exploration of how law is impacting contemporary art

19:00 book project Cooking Sections by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe that celebrated their public installation in London titled The Empire Remains Book Store.

21:00 Cooking Sections' franchising heads of agreement 

22:20 collaborations

24:00 Serpentine Legal Lab’s project

28:00 Victoria Ivanova developed Serpentine’s R&D platform circa 2018-2019

28:45 Serpentine’s arts technologies department

29:45 Serpentine’s legal lab, block chain lab, creative AI lab and science lab

31:00 Serpentine’s chief tech officer Ben Vickers

32:20 Serpentine’s 2019 summit 

35:45 Marie Potel-Saville, Founder & CEO of Amurabi: Legal Innovation by Design

37:15 Three-prong research process for quantitative and qualitative research

42:00 Legal design defined as an approach to legal thinking and legal practice to promote access to justice

42:30 pioneer of legal design Margaret Hagen at Stanford Law School’s Legal Design Lab 

44:00 Legal design’s user-oriented research and user’s pain points

48:00 Cross-disciplinary advisory panel to address action points raised in Legal Lab Report 1

50:45 Serpentine’s affiliation with University College London

52:20 Serpentine’s future creation of a Model Code

54:20 Those interested in contributing can reach out via [email protected]

54:50 Kushnir’s article The Legal Ambiguities of Art Collaborations and their Compatibility with NFTs

57:30 research of NFT platform’s website terms of use with GWA paralegal Mia Schaumann 

59:20 The Mars House controversy

1:04:30 Advice to those pursuing art law

1:06:05 Guest Club

1:09:00 Transparency in collecting

1:12:20 Turkish Artist Rafik Anadol’s Quantum Memories series 

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Music by Toulme.

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