Places, Platforms, Practices: Mediating Art and Technology

Panel Discussion

24 Jan 2026, Saturday | 11AM - 12.30 PM
ArtSpace@Helutrans

Join our panel discussion examining the complex relationship between arts institutions and technology-driven creative practices. Explore how parallel platforms have emerged to support digital art when traditional museums fall short, and discover innovative curatorial approaches that bridge conventional art spaces with technological innovation. Panellists will address institutional challenges, alternative exhibition strategies, and the evolving infrastructure needed to support art and technology intersections in contemporary practice.

This programme is supported by the National Arts Council's Arts x Tech Lab Initiative.

Speakers Gunalan Nadarajan, Sabine Himmelsbach, Victoria Ivanova

10.45am Registration

11.00am Welcome

11.05am Speaker Presentations

12.05pm Q&A

12.30pm Programme End, Post-Programme Refreshments & Light Bites

Free admission, Registration required.

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Gunalan Nadarajan

Dean Emeritus and Professor, Stamps School of Art and Design

Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science and technology, is Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan. His publications include multiple books and over 100 book chapters, catalogue essays, academic articles and reviews; many translated into 17 languages. He has curated many international exhibitions including in Mexico, Indonesia, New Zealand, US, Korea, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, China and as Artistic Co-Director of Ogaki Media Arts Biennale and Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore.

Sabine Himmelsbach

Director at HEK (House of Electronic Arts)

Since 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach is director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. After studying art history in Munich she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993–1996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005–2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. 2011 she curated gateways. Art and Networked Culture for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn as part of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 program. Her exhibitions at HEK in Basel include Ryoji Ikeda (2014), Poetics and Politics of Data (2015), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence (2016), unREAL (2017), Lynn Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies, Eco-Visionaries (2018), Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence (2019), Making FASHION Sense and Real Feelings. Emotion and Technology (2020), Anne Dukhee Jordan, Collective Worldbuilding: Art in the Metaverse, Exploring the Decentralized Web: Art on the Blockchain (2023), Libby Heaney: Quantum Soup (2024) and Quantum Visions (2025). 2021 she realized the Online exhibition and conference Hybrid by Nature. Human.Machine.Interaction in collaboration with Goethe-Instituts of East Asia. In 2022 she curates Earthbound – In Dialoge with Nature for the European Capital of Culture Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg. As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture. In 2025, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel for her commitment to making scientific questions understandable to a broad audience through the language of art.

Victoria Ivanova

Head of Innovation, Serpentine

Victoria Ivanova is a strategist, currently Head of Arts Technologies Innovation where she leads the Future Art Ecosystems project that incubates new infrastructural prototypes at the intersection of culture, technology and society. She publishes and consults on innovative approaches to org design, policy, finance and rights. Her PhD, Infrastructural Praxis: A New Model for Art & Technology Curation and Organisational Innovation, positions art and technology as a laboratory for testing new legal and economic models. Most recently, she led the Trusted Data Intermediary project together with Jennifer Ding, and co-designed a stewardship technology for art in partnership with RadicalxChange. She is a co-founder of various experimental initiatives such as Izolyatsia, Real Flow and Bureau for Cultural Strategies (bux). Back in 2010, she graduated from the LSE with an MSc in Human Rights and an award-winning dissertation, and in 2012 received a scholarship to complete a Masters in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College in 2014.

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