Aleksandra Artamonovskaja
@aljaparis

Aleksandra is the Head of Arts at Trilitech, the entrepreneurship team supporting Tezos blockchain.

In 2020 Aleksandra co-founded Electric Artefacts, a curatorial advisory that focused on Digital art and Blockchain projects. Aleksandra is also the Ambassador and former Director of Partnerships at .ART, the digital address for the arts community. She was part of the core team that launched .ART in 2016 and oversaw its strategic partnerships. As part of .ART’s launch, Aleksandra produced a series of video interviews with key players in the arts industry that explore their online strategy initiatives.

In February 2022, Aleksandra, together with a team of Web3 founders, launched RELI3F, a humanitarian aid initiative that has since raised over $1.5 million for Ukrainian charities. The project united over 60 artists across the globe.

Aleksandra holds a Master’s degree in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art. Prior to joining the art world, Aleksandra worked at Brio Partners, a leadership development consultancy with clients such as Pfizer, University of North Carolina and Nielsen.

Both online and offline, Aleksandra continuously facilitates discussions and programmes to onboard and unite like-minded individuals in the Blockchain x art space.

As seen in

Louis Jebb, ‘Aleksandra Artamonovskaja is appointed head of arts for TriliTech, the entrepreneurship team supporting Tezos blockchain’, The Art Newspaper, April 15, 2024

Song Jung-hyun, ‘NFT tech expands realm of future art’, The Korea Herald, September 4, 2023

Kaloh, ‘Are These The New Digital Art Rockstars?’, Kaloh’s Newsletter, April 6, 2023

Tom Farren, ‘ATP Hits A Winner With Generative NFT Drop’, ONE37pm, January 3, 2023

Dorian Batycka, ‘What Does the Rise of A.I. Models Mean for the Field of Generative Art? NFT Artists and Curators Weigh In’, artnet, November 25, 2022

Tom Farren, ‘NFT visionaries are doubling down on community ethos amid a bearish cycle’, Cointelegraph, May 15, 2022

Tom Farren, ‘Web3 initiative Reli3f has raised over $1.5M for Ukrainian aid efforts’, Cointelegraph, April 17, 2022

Kate Wills, ‘Ukrainians in London: Meet Those Who Are Helping Out Their Home Country’, Evening Standard Magazine, March 11, 2022

Raisa Bruner, ‘Ukraine Received More Than $30M in Crypto Donations. Here's Where It's Going’, TIME, March 1, 2022

Dorian Batycka, ‘As Members of the Crypto Community Rally Behind Ukraine, NFTs Have Suddenly Become 21st-Century War Bonds’, Artnet, March 1, 2022

John Gapper, ‘The Bored Ape Yacht Club is more than an NFT joke’, Financial Times, December 17, 2021

Dorian Batycka, ‘London's NFT Art Scene Thrives Even As Prestigious Frieze Fair Sits Out’, Decrypt, October 31, 2021

Kyle Chayka, ‘Why Bored Ape Avatars Are Taking Over Twitter’, The New Yorker, July 30, 2021

Marcus Bradshaw, ‘A new digital initiative is empowering student artists in the Czech Republic’, Expats.cz, March 4, 2021

Elizabeth Novacek, ‘AAU Success Stories: Interview with Aleksandra Artamonovskaja’, aauni.edu, February, 2021

‘An Insight Into .ART Domains’, Splish, 21 May, 2020

Documentaries

Netflix
NFT:WTF? | The Rise and Fall of NFTs
Director: David Shulman

Writing

https://nfts.wtf/author/aleksandra-artamonovskaja/

https://art.art/blog/writer/aleksandra-artamonovskaja

‘Digital Art Ecosystem’, The Digital Art Observatory Whitepaper on Digital Collaborations, 2021 https://www.daobservatory.art/_files/ugd/7db567_c12ffd7b1d7d4fa79b5ee4f878fd1519.pdf

Art

Web3 People Portraits here
Exhibited at The City of Arts and Sciences in València for NFT Show Europe

Early glitch art on Tezos
Exhibited at L’Avant Galerie in Paris for #TRASHART: NFT GARBOLOGY, 2022

Podcast appearance

fx(fam) #001. With Ciphrd, Winter, Trinity, H&N, Aleksandra and Christine Hall

17 Feb 2023

Podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4IUrFmHsmH8NCYFMBz01n1?si=ESt4pwpfQmO5UPCdGfXHSg&nd=1

NFT Notes 18: Aleksandra Artamonovskaja on the Art Market & the NFT Market

26 November 2021

Podcast link: https://shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/episodes/nft-notes-18-aleksandra-artamonovskaja-on-the-art-market-the

Nodes of Design Podcast: New Media Art

23 January 2021

Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492348213?i=1000506174501

Selected speaker events:

Crypto Art Seoul

L’ESPACE ETNAH GODEOK (Lightroom Seoul)
5 Septemeber 2023

Tezos NFT Summit

Spring Studios, 6 St Johns Lane, New York
12 April 2023

Panel on the multiplicity of creative mediums
Speakers: Sasha Stiles, Michael Zancan, Laurence Fuller, Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

Web3 London

Microsoft Reactor, London
22 November 2022

Keynote about career journey, art market’s transition towards digital and selected case studies.

Proof of People

Fabric London
6-8 July 2022

Panels:
The applications of sports and gaming in web3
Speakers: Silly Tuna, Pet Berisha, Kelly Anne, Asa, Aleksandra Artamonovskaja
Moderated by Holly Wood

The Beautiful World of Generative Art
Speakers: Marcelo Sorario, Iskra, Anna Lucia, Ciphrd, Zancan
Moderated by Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

Collecting Art on Tezos - Patrons, Flippers, or Art Lovers?
Speakers: Ed, Joshua Yakov, Holly Wood, Ivan Lonliboy
Moderated by Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

How Can We Make the Web3 Art Ecosystem More Accessible for Institutions and Universities?
Speakers: Bernadine Brocker, Chris Follows, Mimi Nguyen, Marlene Corbun
Moderated by Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

Recording

NFT.NYC

New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square
23 June 2022

Social change: Art and NFTs as a Lever of Influence

Speakers:
Fiona Aboud, Artist and Photographer
David All, Founder ChangeDAO
Holly Wood, Artist relations Rarible
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Joyn

OFFF Festival

Disseny Hub, Barcelona
5 May 2022

An Electric Art Journey

Keynote about Electric Artefacts, the growth of the NFT ecosystem and selected case studies.

Tate

Tate Museum, London
25 November 2021

Lecture followed by a Q&A for Young People's Programmes at Tate about NFTs and Crypto Art as well as building a career and running a business at the intersection or art and technology.

AWITA

Online
23 April 2021

Speakers:
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Co-founder of Electric Artefacts and Director of Partnerships, .ART
Christine Bourron, Chief Executive of Pi-ex
Cynthia Gayton, Owner of Gayton Law

Moderator: Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, CEO and Founder of Vastari Group

The Art Market Day 2019: La Conférence du Quotidien de l’Art

Le Grand Palais, Paris
18 November 2019

Data and the Art Market

Speakers:
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Director of Partnerships, .ART
⁣Sophie Neuendorf, Vice-President Partnerships, Artnet
Pontus Silfverstolpe, co-founder, Barnebys ⁣⁣
Dorit Straus, Wonder AI
Moderator: Adriano Picinati di Torcello, Director, Deloitte Art & Finance

While everyone uses auction databases, the big data revolution has not fully reached the art market. However, new types of data exist, and companies are starting to put them at the service of market players. The roundtable aimed to understand what these solutions are and how we can use them.

Ars Electronica Festival

Ars Electronica New World Channel (Online)
10 September 2020

Business Models for Online Contents

The panel Business Models for Online Contents investigated various entrepreneurial endeavors of platform-based access to online content, and how they are monetized. Crowdfunding, licenses or subscription models are only a few of the strategies institutions have to generate revenues in cultural & creative industries, and to secure revenue for artists and content developers.

These questions are even more important today, given the situation created by COVID-19, which is forcing players in the cultural and creative industries, public and private, to rethink their activities through different business models.

Speakers: Brendon Ciecko (US), Ulvi Kasimov (UK), Aleksandra Artamonovskaja (CZ/UK), Sabine Seymour (AT) Moderators: Nathalie Pichard (CH), Thierry Baujard (FR)

This conference was realized within Digital Cross Over and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Central Saint Martins Symposium on Monetisation and value in the art world.

Central Saint Martins University, London 30 November 2019

Promises and Realities of Digital Technologies

The questions were provocations about the relationship between art and technology; curating and technology; and the evaluation and monetisation of art through technological systems. They are inevitably embedded within the capitalist modus operandi of current environments, such as web-based environments, which at a certain point seemed to promise the democratisation of communication and art. The guests on this panel were artists, practitioners, academics and curators.

Speakers: Tsila Hassine, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Aleksandra Artamonovskaja and Samuel Capps, chaired by Lee Weinberg.

Selected speaker events:

NFT Seoul 2023

COEX, Seoul
1 September 2023

NFT Show Europe

City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
18 September 2022

The Present and Future of AI and Art

Panelists: Ivona Tau, Ganbrood, Sofia Crespo, Jenni Pasanen

Moderator: Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

0xArt

The Arts Club, 40 Dover St, London
1 March 2022

The NFTs Revolution: From Cryptopunks to Picasso

Panelists: Alexander Ryvkin, David Moore, Premala Matthen, Wincent Lau

Moderator: Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

NFTLDN

Unit Gallery, 3 Hanover Square, London
6-7 November 2021

From UK Worldwide: Artists and Creators

NFT.LDN was a weekend-long event dedicated to crypto art and NFTs. Led a panel with leading artists in the space focusing on the challenges and opportunities NFTs offer and how to establish an artists’ career in the ever evolving ecosystem.

Panelists: Defaced, Matthew Stone, Brendan Dawes, Miss Al Simpson

Moderator: Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

Legal Geek Conference

Shoreditch, London
6 October 2021

NFTs: Crypto Art Ecosystem

A panel on the topic of Non-fungible tokens and their applications in art with Lumen Prize finalist and renowned generative artist Brendan Dawes and blockchain art market specialist Aleksandra Artamonovskaja. The session covers an artists' experience navigating the NFT ecosystem and answer some of the popular questions that arise when it comes to buying and selling digital assets.

EMERGE 2021

Online
12-14 May 2021

Welcome to the Wild Wild West of the NFT Market

Speakers:
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja
Sven Eberwein, Artist and designer at Tesla
Jamie Burke, Founder and CEO Outlier Ventures
Fernando Verbonen, Co-Founder CurioInvest

Vastari

Online
3 March 2021

Are NFTs the Future of Digital Art?

Speakers:
Jason Bailey (Artnome)
Fanny Lakoubay
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja

The talk exploring the trend for collecting NFTs that grew in 2020, and the potential for these digital artworks to be displayed in museums in the coming years. This discussion looked at the concepts of scarcity versus exposure and the aura of the original in a blockchain context.

CADAF: Digital Art Month Miami

Online
22 December 2020

A conversation about the past, present and future of digital art.

Panelists:
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Director of Partnerships, .ART
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, Co-founder of Blockchain.art
William Deresiewicz, Author of "The Death of the Artist"
Moderator: Giulia Archetti, Sotheby’s

Press Conference: ArtUp Nation

The Contemporary And Digital Art Fair (CADAF Online) 27 June 2020

.art Domains present: CONVERSATION –  Wemakemoney.art: Exit Through the Appstore 

Speakers:
Tsila Hassine
Yoav Lifshitz
Gabriel S Moses (ArtUp Nation) Aleksandra Artamonovskaja (.ART)

A conversation with ArtUp Nation about blurring the boundaries between artistic action and market disruption.