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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.

Artists Liaison at Unit London, Alice Fry builds bridges between artists and collectors and helps to transform great ideas of the digital realm into palpable exhibitions of the physical world. 

Seeking innovation in all its forms, artist and founder Jorge Welsh uses his findings to invest, collect and create in the art and technology worlds. With a background rooted in the art world and involved in crypto since 2016, this marriage of two domains has informed a unique perspective that informs his decision making as he takes the best from the old and the new. 

Founder of Nuqtah, the first NFT marketplace in Saudi Arabia, Salwa Radwi is driving the transformation of the country’s new creators’ economy by bridging gaps between the culture, arts, and technology spheres. Unstoppable entrepreneur and an artist herself, she is a key figure working with blockchain technologies with the Ministry of Culture and of Tourism. "Why does someone who loves art still have to do a boring 9-to-5 job? That makes no sense at all!”