Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt and Emilie Trice on NFTs
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt and Emilie Trice in conversation about the impact of NFTs on artists at the cHURCH OF MONIKA.
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt is an international art curator and entrepreneur. In 2019, she co-founded Blockchain.art, an innovative digital platform for artists, galleries and collectors, launching in summer 2021. Born in Kazakhstan to German-Russian parents, Christina’s family moved to Cologne, Germany in 1990 and she speaks German, Russian and English fluently. Christina studied international business at Maastricht University in the Netherlands before earning her masters degree in contemporary art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. From 2009 – 2012, Christina was the Artistic Director of Art Moscow. In 2012, she co-founded the art fair viennacontemporary, where she was Executive Director until 2018. In addition to her current work as CEO of Blockchain.art, Christina is also an advisor to Ars Electronica, the new media art museum in Linz, Austria, and a board member of CADAF, the cryptoart and digital art fair.
Emilie Trice is a writer, curator, and artist specializing in contemporary art and new media. Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, Aspen, Miami, Denver and San Francisco, where she was an artist in residence at Villa SF, an initiative of the French Consulate. Emilie’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Artnet, and Artforum. An essay she wrote was recently published by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and sealed in a time capsule in the walls of their new Rudin Gallery for Visual Art. For the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, Emilie curated a VR exhibition featuring Latinx artists entitled Garden del Rio Grande. Emilie holds a Master of Arts in Emergent Digital Practices from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and German from Middlebury College in Vermont.
Photo top: Video Still, Millennial Pink, 2019 – 2020. 360 VR video and site-specific installation, 2min22sec duration, looped
