In today’s ep, Matt Prewitt speaks with Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead of Serpentine Arts and curator-strategist-writer, about the role art and culture have in society in preserving democratic ideals while offering critical and actionable solutions for the emerging technological era.

They delve into the historical and present significance of art, its crisis of meaning in the age of accelerationism and powerful AI, and the potential for Plural Property (Partial Common Ownership) to create a more fair and dynamic market for art; thereby rethinking art ownership and promoting a more equitable future. 

This conversation and the collaboration between RadicalxChange and Serpentine Arts offer new perspectives on the intersection of art, technology, and society.

Links: 

• Rethinking Art Ownership (blog post) by Paula Berman, Victoria Ivanova, & Matt Prewitt
• Rethinking Art Ownership (audio version)
• Rethinking Art Ownership (video version - audio + text)

References:

• 6:04 Gustave Courbet (French painter leading the Realism movement)
• 7:00 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) anti-slavery novel by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 7:01 A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) collection of Russian realist short stories by Russian novelist, poet, and playwright Ivan Turgenev
• 8:54 Italian Futurism
• 12: 45 Salon des Refusés
• 14:52 French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp’s "Fountain" (Duchamp, 1917)
• 15:54 Conceptual art
• 24:51 Nick Land (English philosopher and theorist)
  • Accelerationism
• 26:03 Nick Srnicek (Canadian writer and academic) and Dr. Alex Williams (British political theorist and lecturer)
  • Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
• 27:11 Ursula K. Le Guin (American novelist)
• 29:15 Jakob Kudsk Steensen (Danish artist)
• 31:38 Marshall McLuhan (Canadian philosopher)
• 49:11 Norbert Wiener (American mathematician and philosopher)
• 55:38 Systems Esthetics (1968, Artforum) by Jack Burnham (American artist, writer, and theorist of art and technology)
• 55:55 Santa Fe Institute for Complexity
• 58:59 GPT-4 (ChatGPT AI created by OpenAI)
• 01:04:12 Ezra Klein’s “My View on A.I.”
• 1:33:55 EQUANIMITY | Cambridge English Dictionary

Bios:

Victoria Ivanova is a strategist and writer with a background in human rights, currently working as R&D Strategist at Serpentine, a leading contemporary art organisation located in London, where she leads Future Art Ecosystems – a project for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure for art and technology.

Victoria’s Social Links:

• Twitter: @VivLaNova
• Website: Victoria Ivanova

Connect with Serpentine Arts Technologies:

• Sign up for the Future Art Ecosystems newsletter.
• Continue the conversation in FAE's Telegram.
• Check out Serpentine’s Twitch channel.

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social Links:

• Twitter: @m_t_prewitt
• Matt’s Substack: Matt's Writings

Connect with RxC:

• Follow @radxchange on Twitter.
• Visit RxC's website.
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Edited and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

This is a RadicalxChange Production.

Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:

• RadicalxChange Website
• @RadxChange | Twitter
• RxC | YouTube
• RxC | Instagram
• RxC | LinkedIn
• Join the conversation on Discord.

Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)