15 June 2026

Programme

Kult.Kino Camera · Rebgasse 1, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

09:30 – 10:00

30 min

Doors Open & Early Conversations

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Opening

Coffee & Croissants

10:00 – 10:10

10 min

Welcome & Opening Remarks

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Welcome

Speakers

ArtMeta teamMain Sponsor

10:10 – 10:45

50 min

NetArt Activism

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ACT 03Conversation

For decades, UBERMORGEN has operated where art collides with systems of power, platforms, and control. This conversation explores how artistic practice can expose, misuse, and rewire the interfaces that shape our digital lives. From corporate infrastructures to legal frameworks, UBERMORGEN challenges the invisible rules embedded in technology and asks what it means to make art inside, against, and beyond the system.

Speakers

UBERMORGENMiltos ManetasDespoina Damaskou

InterviewerAlex Estorick, RightClickSave (United Kingdom)

11:00 – 11:15

15 min

Transition & Networking

Break

11:15 – 12:15

60 min

How New Tendencies Became Today's Tech Labs

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Panel Discussion

In the 1960s, movements like New Tendencies positioned computation, systems, and experimentation at the heart of artistic practice. Today, those experiments continue inside research centers, scientific institutions, and corporate labs. This panel traces a lineage between early digital art exhibitions and contemporary tech labs, asking how innovation, authorship, and cultural power have shifted as experimentation moved from artist collectives to large-scale infrastructures.

Speakers

Darko Fritz, curator (Croatia)Ragnar, collectorGiulia Bini, Curator, CERN (Switzerland)Micky Malka, NODE Foundation (United States)

ModeratorMargit Rosen, ZKM (Germany)

12:15 – 13:00

45 min

Lunch & Conversations

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Lunch

The preceding sessions continue informally over lunch. Speakers will remain available for discussion.

13:00 – 13:45

45 min

Trust, Time, and Taste: Inside a Digital Art Collection

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ACT 01Conversation

Collecting digital art is an act of trust. Trust in artists, in technologies, and in futures that are still unfolding. This conversation offers an intimate look into the motivations, relationships, and long-term commitments behind building a digital art collection. Beyond transactions and trends, it explores how taste is formed over time and how collectors live with artworks that evolve, persist, and sometimes resist ownership.

Speakers

Nina (ABS)

ModeratorEli Basel

13:45 – 14:00

15 min

Transition & Networking

Break

14:00 – 14:45

45 min

How Masterpieces Are Made: Canon Formation in Digital Art

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ACT 02Panel Discussion

How does a digital artwork move from visibility to permanence? This panel examines how masterpieces are formed through exhibitions, critical discourse, institutional support, and market recognition. Rather than treating canon as a fixed list, the discussion focuses on canon formation as a dynamic process shaped by context, repetition, and time, and asks who and what ultimately determine cultural endurance in digital art.

Speakers

Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American ArtIrini Papadimitriou, Director of Exhibitions, Diriyah Art FuturesCaroline CsuriMichael Spalter, Collector, Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection

ModeratorJJ / ArtReview

14:45 – 15:00

15 min

Transition & Networking

Break

15:00 – 15:45

45 min

World-building: from early CGI to AI-powered worlds

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Conversation

Speakers

Tamar Clarke-Brown, Curator, Arts Technologies, Serpentine Galleries (United Kingdom)Sabine, HEK Basel (Switzerland)Claudia Hart (United States / Austria)

ModeratorAleks, Trilitech

15:45 – 15:55

10 min

Closing Remarks

Closing

15:55 – 16:30

35 min

Extended Conversations & Networking

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Networking

The preceding sessions continue informally over networking. Speakers will remain available for discussion.

16:30

End

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