EVENTS
MONDAY, JUNE 23rd, 2025
DECENTRALIZED FUTURES
Art, Storytelling & the Edges of Innovation
Join us for an evening at the intersection of emerging technology and artistic inquiry. Decentralized Futures brings together artists, curators, critics, and cultural theorists to explore how decentralized systems are reshaping creative practice, authorship, and collective imagination.
Hosted by the Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL) in collaboration with the Solana Foundation, the event invites participants into a dynamic space of speculation, experimentation, and critique. Through conversation, provocation, and performative exchange, we’ll examine how blockchain, generative AI, and participatory frameworks can both challenge and expand traditional models of cultural production.
This gathering is part of an ongoing series of experiential learning salons developed in partnership with Film at Lincoln Center, designed to ignite dialogue and foster new forms of collaboration across disciplines. Together, we ask: What might the future of art look like when it is co-created, decentralized, and ever in flux?
JUNE (Date TBD)
DECENTRALIZED FUTURES DINNER #1
An intimate gathering of 6 to 8 artists, curators, critics, cultural theorists, engineers, and builders, styled as a Jeffersonian Dinner — where a single, shared conversation centers on a provocative question. The evening will be audio recorded and shared as part of an ongoing dialogue.
Additional event dates to be announced soon
Decentralized Futures
is a collaboration between
Columbia DSL & the Solana Foundation