DECENTRALIZED FUTURES
Investigating art practices at the dawn of the AI era.
book design, visual identity
Book design and exhibition identity for Baltan Laboratories, a cultural institution based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The book and the exhibition were curated by Lorenzo Gerbi, Marlou van der Cruijsen and Julia Kassyk and were the result of ARTeCHÓ, a European initiative connecting five institutions (MEET, Baltan Laboratories, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center, SERN) to support artists exploring art, Crypto Art, blockchain, and NFTs.
CRSL has been in charge of the visual identity of the exhibition Decentralized Futures, held at Koelhuis in Eindhoven, during Dutch Design Week 2024. (exhibition design by Raphael Coutin.
The exhibition brought together the works of eight international artists, developed during the ARTeCHÓ Fellowship Program.
The book Investigating decentralized action in art explores how AI and NFTs intersect with art, economy, and politics, questioning their sustainability and equity.
Through essays and artworks, it challenges centralized systems, colonial legacies, and extractive capitalism, proposing decentralized, autonomous alternatives for a fairer digital future and new forms of collective knowledge and creativity.
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Baltan Laboratories, based in Eindhoven, is an indisciplinary lab supporting talent development, research, and residencies. ARTeCHÓ, a European initiative funded by the European Commission, united five institutions to support artists exploring art, Crypto Art, blockchain, and NFTs. It fostered peer learning, offered mentorship and resources, and encouraged new business models while addressing themes like digital scarcity, sustainability, and equitable resource distribution through decentralized technologies.
