Gallery Novo, Pula, 22.1.26 11.00 – 18.30
Labin Art Express XXI and Galerija Novo invite you to the conference FLUX: The Future of Digital Creativity and Blockchain Art, the final activity of the international collaborative project Female Digital Creativity (FLUX). The event will take place on Thursday, January 22, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 6:30 PM at Galerija Novo and online via the Zoom platform.
The conference brings together artists, academics, and experts from the crypto/NFT field to discuss and analyze the present and future(s) of digital and blockchain art, with a specific focus on female participation.
A range of topics will be addressed, including:
- What are the threats and opportunities that new technologies bring to contemporary women artists?
- What are the achievements of female artists currently using new digital technologies, and how has the FLUX project empowered them with new skills?
- At the threshold of the second quarter of the 21st century, what might the future hold for women’s digital creativity?
Schedule:
Session 1:
11.00 FLUX Project Presentation (Magda Milas)
11.35 Sara Lerota (FLUX artist)
11.45 Ivan Mazi Markov: Where are NFTs today?
Session 2:
16.00 Keynote lecture. Klara Debeljak: Speculative Infrastructures
Klara Debeljak’s lecture on Speculative Infrastructures explores the monopoly rent of internet space, highlighting feminist-run collectives and autonomous networks that challenge dominant techno-social systems through self-hosting, radio, and DIY publishing. Informed by critical reading of blockchain and digital spatial software from Keller Easterling and Hito Steyerl, the lecture presents alternative infrastructural models that actively resist extractive cyber economies by reimagining ownership and collective organisation.
16.45 Anna Bulkina (FLUX artist)
17.00 Crystal Clean (FLUX artist)
17.15 Petra Brnardic (FLUX artist)
17.30 Kristina Antolić (FLUX artist)
17.45 Nat (prepared video) (FLUX artist)
List of speakers:
- Magda Milas (Alice in Blockchains Association, Zagreb)
- Ivan Mazi Markov (author of several books on NFTs and art)
- Klara Debeljak (digital artist and researcher)
- Graduate artists of the FLUX Blockchain Academy
- Moderator: Dr. Alexei Monroe (Labin Art Express XXI / Burren College of Art).
The project Female Digital Creativity – FLUX, co-funded by the European Union (EACEA/Creative Europe), the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs, the Istrian Region, and the City of Labin, is a joint venture of Labin Art Express XXI (HR), Alice in Blockchains (HR), MOTA – Museum of Transitory Art (SI), and MEET Digital Culture Center (IT).
Addressing the issue of gender equality in the NFT and digital art world, the project’s goal was to develop, present, and promote digital creativity while encouraging greater engagement of women artists in the field of new technologies, specifically blockchain and NFTs. This European collaborative project, which began in December 2024 and concludes this January, has empowered the creative capacities and digital skills of approximately 70 artists from Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and beyond, fostering the development of their professional and critical discourse. The highlight of the project was an exhibition of NFT works held at Galerija Novo in Pula in September and October 2025. This was organized as part of the collateral program of the 5th Industrial Art Biennial, titled “The Vast Automaton,” and was subsequently presented at MOTA in Ljubljana and the MEET Center in Milan.
Join us online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85652897743
