About Webinar
Three jurors of the .ART Award 2026 sit down with the .ART team to look at artistic practice from three professional vantages: the market, conservation, and AI and authorship. One practical question runs through the conversation. What should an artist be documenting in the studio today, and why will it matter in five or twenty years?
WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY
Insights from the session, and what these jurors will be reading for in your .ART Award submission.
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A sense of what a primary-market-ready artist archive looks like in 2026.
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How conservation thinks about variable-media works and what that means for studio practice today.
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A working frame for AI, authorship, and creative responsibility.
Speakers
Akanksha Ballaney
Senior Director of Business Development at Artsy and Artnet.
Daily work on how an artwork becomes legible to a market: provenance, narrative, the scaffolding that turns a piece into a collectible asset.
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Regina Harsanyi
Associate Curator of Media Arts at Museum of the Moving Image; adjunct at Columbia.
Leading voice on time-based and born-digital art conservation. Known for arguing that "storage is not preservation" and that variable-media work needs a "migration mentality."
Leo Crane
Co-founder of AIFA Ventures.
Runs programs at the intersection of AI, film, and creative industries with partners including the V&A, BFI, Sotheby's Institute, and Sony Music. Public voice on the three pillars of creative-AI ethics.
About the .ART Award 2026
A global art award celebrating the 10th anniversary of the .ART domain, with $50,000+ in total prize value. Open to artists anywhere in the world, working in any art form. Applications open 11 May 2026. Full details at award.art.
Join the Conversation!
Register below to attend our upcoming webinar and be part of an inspiring exchange with artists, creators, and innovators from around the world.
Past Events
Speakers: Sasha Stiles, Jeff Sass, Elena Zavelev, Anastasia
Sukhanov, Daria Kravchuk
Speakers: Gaia Calcaterra, Leah Brown, Edward Muñoz-Toro, Jeff Sass, Elena Zavelev
Moderator: Daria Kravchuk
Speakers: Alexandra Laqueur, Stephanie Scott, Sasha Baydal
Moderator: Daria Kravchuk
Speakers: Debbie Soon, Aleksandra Art, Kika Nicolela, Amir Soleymani, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Markus Wiesenhofer
Moderators: Jonas Kastenhuber, Anastasia Sukhanov
Speakers: Arthur Steiner, Juliet Klottrup, Giorgi Rodionov
Moderator: Daria Kravchuk
Speakers: Shantell Martin, Phil Hansen, Sophia Wallace, Rob Anderson, Anna Shvets, Nate Bear
Moderators: Jeff Sass, Anastasia Sukhanov
Speakers: Alex Righetto
Moderators: Anastasia Sukhanov, Rost Torchinskiy
Are You an Artist?
If you're an artist with a .ART domain interested in being featured in our upcoming editions, make sure to sign up for the events, even if you can't attend this time. By registering, you'll be among the first to know when we open applications for future events.
