SwissLedger - Art Edition. AI and Blockchain meet art

Welcome

Institutional welcome and introduction: Roberto Badaracco – Vicesindaco, Città di Lugano

SwissLedger initiative: Lorenzo Barisone, Data Scientist, Città di Lugano

What is Blockchain used for in art? SwissLedger presentation
Exploration of the benefits of blockchain technology for the art world: authentication, traceability and new market forms.
Roberto Gorini, CEO at Noku AG

14:45-15:05 Talk
Certification of works on the blockchain: the role of archives and artists
The key role of blockchain in certifying the authenticity and provenance of artworks, with a focus on artists and archives.
Ilaria Caldirola

15:05-15:15
Q&A with the audience

15:15-15:45 Panel
The latest challenges to copyright between digital forgeries and new frontiers of copyright law
A discussion on the legal implications of digital enhancement, NFT and copyright protection in the age of AI and blockchain.
Gianni Cattaneo, Lawyer, CBM LAW FIRM

15:45-16:15 Talk
Tokenisation of artworks: new challenges for the traditional art market
Analysis of the opportunities offered by tokenization for the sale, fragmentation and investment in artworks.
Lars Schlichting, Lawyer and Founder of Lexify

16:15-16:30: Coffee Break 

16:30-16:45
Live tokenisation of a work of art, Carlo Orsi Archive

16:45-17:00
Q&A with the audience

17:00-17:30 Talk
The New Chameleons: simulation as a paradigm for the digital humanities
What frontiers and challenges do so-called ‘transformers’ open up for the digital humanities? On the one hand, LLMs, chatbots, algorithmic assistants and AI ‘secret agents’ enable new experiments between simulation and creativity, for the regeneration of the past and the design of the future in the humanities. On the other, they impose a critical reflection to ensure that these increasingly ‘intelligent’ tools are compatible - or ‘alignable’ - with the objectives of a digital humanism that does not renounce the cognitive and ethical values consubstantial to traditional humanistic thought.
Prof. Massimo Riva, Interim Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, Brown University

17:30-18:00 Talk
AI for Art and Archives: the Digital Revolution
How Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising the management, preservation and enjoyment of art archives and works of art. We will talk about semantic image recognition in order to optimise research, a rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence that enables not only the identification of objects and scenes within an image, but also the understanding of their meaning and relationships. A journey to the origins of virtual reality and artificial intelligence between simulation and adaptive capacity.
Prof. Luca Maria Gambardella, Pro-Rector for Innovation and Corporate Relations at USI

18:00-18:15
Q&A
 

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