EVENTS
JULY 26th & 27th, 2025
Call for Artists, creative technologists, engineers, and builders! Join us for a virtual hackathon to build new creative infrastructure. The event will include talks, case studies and workshops. An excellent opportunity to meet new collaborators and build something awesome!
JUNE 25th, 2025
DECENTRALIZED CONVERSATION
to build the future of art on-chain
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Solana Skyline
141 E Houston St,
New York, New York
We're hosting an event to have a decentralized conversation to build the future of art on-chain, inviting artists, technologists, and builders to collaboratively reimagine how art is made, shared, and valued.
Through open dialogue, collective experimentation, and distributed tools, we seek to prototype new models of authorship, ownership, and creative infrastructure. This is not just a conversation—it’s a call to shape systems that are transparent, participatory, and artist-led.
Co-hosted by Robbie Shilstone, the founder & creator of Publique and Lance Weiler (aka culturehacker), Professor of Practice at Columbia University, and founding member & director of Columbia DSL.
MONDAY, JUNE 23rd, 2025
DECENTRALIZED FUTURES
Art, Storytelling & the Edges of Innovation
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center
6:30pm to 9pm ET
IRL & Virtual
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 new series of conversations, dinners, hackathons and prototyping sessions. Together, we ask: What might the future of art look like when it is co-created, decentralized, and ever in flux?
This is an IRL/Virtual event. A streaming link will be made available 24 hours prior to the event.
SPEAKERS
Kelani Nichole - Founder Transfer Gallery & Transfer Data Trust
Nikhil Kumar - Artist, co-founder 5x5 studio
Lucas Rizzotto - IRL Mad Scientist & Artist
Poof - Artist & Group Founder @dxrgai the makers of DX Terminal
Alaska Hoffman - AI researcher & DX Terminal game team member
Lance Weiler - Artist, founding member & director of Columbia DSL
Shar Simpson - Narrative Designer, Author, Educator
Nick Fortugno - Director of Gaming Pathways at City College of New York
Decentralized Futures
is a collaboration between
Columbia DSL & the Solana Foundation