What obstacles hinder the sale of digital artworks? How does the act of collecting these artworks present difficulties for institutions? In this episode, we engage in a conversation with Marco Mancuso, an esteemed critic and curator of contemporary art who delves into the intersection of technology, science, design, architecture, and sound.

Explore narratives surrounding the digital art market, artworks born in the digital realm, the visionaries propelling the digital art revolution, and those pushing the boundaries of the art market through innovative technologies.

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Meet our guest, Marco Mancuso, a critic and curator of contemporary art, in the relationship with technology and science and in the dialogue with the fields of design, architecture and sound. Founder and director of the Digicult project, he is a full professor at the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo, an adjunct professor at the Alma Mater University of Bologna and a visiting professor at the Node Curatorial Center in Berlin.

PhD in Digital Cultures at the Iuav University of Venice, he is interested in how the interdisciplinary discourse investigates the ways in which technoscience influences culture, society and the relationship between human beings and the context, observing the evolution of production, research and market of media art and digital art. Among the founders of the study center SSH! – Sound studies Hub at the Iuav University of Venice, he is part of the EMAP/EMARE Network and has published the books “Arte, Tecnologia e Scienza“ (2018) and “Intervista con la New Media Art“ (2020) for Mimesis Edizioni.

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Editing by Maria Cynkier.

Intro music by Dan Carr.