.svg)
Menu
Menu
With her, you are always at the right address! Aleksandra Artamonovskaja has a keen eye for identifying, curating, and discussing the role of art in the digital age as if she is observing ahead of our present. Head of Arts at Trilitech, where she leads art projects across the Tezos ecosystem, Aleksandra Art was part of the core team that launched .ART, the digital address for the arts community. Note: This podcast was recorded in February 2024, since then, Aleksandra Art took the position of Head of Arts at Trilitech.
Some people observe a field from the outside. Aleksandra Artamonovskaja has been inside it from the beginning - first as a co-founder of .ART, the digital address for the arts community, and now as Head of Arts at Trilitech, where she leads art programming across the Tezos ecosystem. Her vantage point is specific and unusual: she sees digital culture not as it presents itself, but as it actually is.
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja - known as Aleksandra Art - is Head of Arts at Trilitech, where she leads art projects and cultural programming across the Tezos blockchain ecosystem. She was part of the founding team that launched .ART, the domain extension that gave the global arts community its own address on the internet. With a background that spans institutional art, digital culture, and technology, she brings to her work an analytical sharpness that is rare in a field often dominated by enthusiasm over precision.
The role of someone like Aleksandra Artamonovskaja in the digital art ecosystem is easy to underestimate. She is not an artist, not a curator in the traditional sense, and not purely a technologist. She is an observer and organiser who shapes which artists get infrastructure, which projects get visibility, and how entire blockchain-based art ecosystems develop their identity. This conversation explores what that position actually involves - and what she has learned from watching digital culture evolve from the inside of both .ART and the Tezos ecosystem.
The Tezos ecosystem as a distinct art community
Tezos developed a different character from Ethereum-based platforms - smaller, more community-oriented, more willing to support experimental and process-based work. Aleksandra Art has been central to shaping that identity.
.ART as cultural infrastructure
A domain extension might seem like a technical detail. Giving the arts community its own internet address was actually a statement about belonging and legitimacy - and the work behind that statement was substantial.
Identifying before the mainstream
Aleksandra Art's value is partly her ability to see what's significant in digital culture before it becomes obvious. This episode explores how that capacity develops and what it produces in practice.
Art leadership inside technology companies
Leading arts programming at a blockchain company is a genuinely new kind of role - with its own tensions between commercial and cultural priorities. Her experience at Trilitech is instructive for anyone thinking about where art and technology organisations intersect.
Understanding the infrastructure of digital art - the platforms, ecosystems, and organisations that shape what artists can make and how collectors can find it - is increasingly essential for serious collecting. Aleksandra Art's perspective from inside one of those ecosystems gives you a more accurate map of how the terrain actually works.
Unlocked is the podcast by 100 collectors - the global network for digital art collectors. Each episode, we speak with artists, curators, collectors, and builders shaping the digital art world. No market speculation. No hype. Just honest, substantive conversations about art, practice, and what it means to collect today. New episodes release throughout the year. Find Unlocked on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 100 collectors is a membership network. [Explore membership →]
