Son[i]a #117
Seth Siegelaub
Out of the context of conceptual art in the sixties and in close contact with some of the best known artists, heterodox figures emerged such as the New Yorker Seth Siegelaub (1941). Gallery owner, editor, art dealer and independent curator, Siegelaub invented innovative methods in presenting and disseminating conceptual art.
He also gave impetus to projects with a clear social impact in a cultural context marked by the Vietnam War and a more politically driven art. Proposals such as the United States Servicemen’s Fund or “The Artist’s Contract” are not understood outside the context of the time.
Son[i]a talks to Seth Siegelaub about the sociocultural framework of the sixties and his association with contemporary art production.
Martin Zeilinger
Researcher Martin Zeilinger’s work stems from a deep fascination with the grey area where blockchain-related technologies protocols and art intersect. Far from the naive triumphalism of Web3 evangelists, his approach focuses on the artists and projects that actually try to integrate some of the salient features and affordances of distributed, trustless ledgers into their practice. In this podcast, we talk to Martin Zeilinger about the poetic and political potential of the blockchain, while at the same time tracing a somewhat fuzzy timeline that connects 1960s conceptual art to smart contracts, decentralised autonomous organisations and a host of consensus mechanisms.