Apply to the Technē//Genesis Open Call for a chance to have your work on one of the 55 inch screens inside the ETHDenver Art Gallery.
Submissions close on January 15 at 12:00 PM EST.
We are also inviting artists to submit augmented realityartworks for the ETHDenver 2026 Art Gallery.
Submit your work here:
The ETHDenver Art Gallery is curated by Elena Zavelev, a digital art curator, educator, and community builder. With over 15 years of experience, Elena curates digital art across platforms and organizations, leads partnerships and growth at HUG.art, and teaches digital strategy and technology in the art world at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She previously co-founded CADAF, a digital art fair acquired in 2023.
X: @Elena_Zavelev | LinkedIn
ETHDenver is excited to partner with Verse as the official minting partner for the Art Gallery. Together, we are creating new ways for artists and collectors to engage with digital works on site and beyond. Stay tuned for the upcoming art auction, where winning works from the open call will be available to mint and collect.
Each day the central LED wall becomes a new exhibition. Curated by invited guest curators who are shaping the future of digital and generative art.
Founder, K011 / Kate Vass Studio – Zurich,CH Curator | Cultural Strategist | Web3 Advisor
Kate Vass is a curator, entrepreneur, and cultural strategist building bridges between art, blockchain, and finance. As founder of Kate Vass Galerie (est. 2016) and K011(2023), an on-chain generative art studio, she has pioneered exhibitions and systems that define how creative IP lives and scales on Ethereum.
With over 20 years across finance and innovation — including at UBS and Vontobel — Kate has become a key voice in tokenized cultural economies, advising funds, DAOs, and startups on Web3 strategy, provenance, and value creation. Her projects have connected early blockchain artists to institutions like MoMA, Tate, and ZKM, and her recent book, Collecting Art Onchain, is the first on-chain publication, explores decentralized ownership and digital culture preservation.
www.katevassgalerie.com | X @KateVassGalerie | LinkedIn
Featured artists
— Kevin Abosch
— Sasha Stiles
— Ivona Tau
— Additional artists to be announced
Masako Shiba is an independent curator and cultural producer working between New York and Japan. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Brooklyn Experimental Arts Foundation (BEAF) and co-founder and CCO of ONBD, a web3 creator platform. As Chief Artistic Director of Spacetainment, she oversaw the first art installation on the exterior of the International Space Station. Her curatorial work — including “New Dimensions: Expanded Consciousness” at Mikke Gallery (Tokyo) and directing the art program for the Artificial Life (ALife 2025) Conference (Kyoto) — explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and networked culture.
www.beaf.art | X @MetaMasako | LinkedIn
Featured artists
— Artist list coming soon.
100 collectors is a private club dedicated to bringing together a global community of contemporary and digital art collectors.
As the art world evolves through new technologies such as AI, blockchain, and generative coding, we help collectors stay informed, connected, and confident in this new landscape. Our aim is simple: make collecting contemporary and digital art easier, more meaningful, and more enjoyable.
Our members receive early access to exclusive art releases, curated expert articles about collecting and current events, a vibrant international community, one-on-one art advisory sessions, and tailored artwork selections shaped to their interests. Through our gated platform and active Telegram community, members benefit from weekly insights, previews, and collector resources created by our team and contributors.
Beyond online programming, we regularly host IRL events around leading art fairs, exhibitions, and Web3 conferences worldwide. These include private tours, collector meet-ups, VIP tickets, and meet-the-artist opportunities designed to deepen knowledge and foster genuine connections between collectors.
100 collectors offers a trusted space where like-minded individuals can explore, learn, and build their collections in this new era of contemporary and digital art.
www.100collectors.art | X @100collectors | LinkedIn
Featured artists
— Artist list coming soon
Judy Mam is the cofounder of dada.art. Her novel Quién te manda/Serves You Right was published in 2021 and was the first novel ever to be published as an interactive NFT. Judy has written for magazines and newspapers in Mexico and the US, and contributed to Right Click Save, and On NFTs published by Taschen. Judy writes about film and other topics. She divides her time between New York and Mexico City. Currently, she is working on DADA and on her second novel.
www.dada.art | X @Grandenchilada | LinkedIn
DADA
DADA is a global, decentralized community of artists, technologists, thinkers, researchers, and collectors founded in 2014 by Beatriz Helena Ramos, Judy Mam and Abraham Milano. DADA originated as dada.art, a visual conversation platform where people from around the world communicate through drawings, spontaneously creating collaborative art.
In 2017, DADA launched its first NFT collection, Creeps & Weirdos, the first project to encode automated royalties into smart contracts. In 2019, it launched DADAGAN, one of the first autonomous AI artists.
The DADA Collective’s work has been exhibited at Late at Tate Modern, London, D.Y.O.R at Kunsthalle Zurich, Radical X Change, CADAF New York and Miami, Dreamverse New York, Historic NFT Festival Barcelona, Uncommon Gallery Seoul, and NFC Lisbon, among others. In 2023, the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan featured a DADA retrospective curated by Eleonora Brizi.
DADA is currently building The Invisible Economy, an alternative socio-economic protocol designed to protect creative intrinsic motivations while generating collective wealth.
Featured artists
— Artist list coming soon
Nadia Taiga is an experienced art producer and curator who joined Snark.art in 2019 to explore the potential of blockchain and NFT technology as an art medium. In 2022, Snark.art launched OG.Art, a curated platform that allows groundbreaking artists to develop projects based on dynamic NFT technology and community interaction. OG.Art has created projects that respond to online and in-person events, enabling collectors to interact with and develop NFT projects in new ways. At the art sector of the Outer Edge LA, OG.art presents the latest dynamic NFT collection Heterosis by Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko that consists of 2500 unique flowers for breeding and interactive metaversal “greenhouse”.
www.og.art | X @Nadia_Taiga | LinkedIn
Featured Artists
— Artist list coming after Jan 15
Farrah Carbonell is an independent curator and image-based artist working with contemporary digital art and exhibition projects. Her curatorial work engages generative, time-based, and digitally constructed practices presented across public and exhibition contexts.
She has curated and developed projects internationally, with presentations in New York, Paris, Dubai, and Miami, spanning public-facing displays, group exhibitions, private settings, and dialogue-driven formats. Her work engages contemporary image culture through varied conditions of display and circulation.
Carbonell is the founder of ART&VAULT, an independent curatorial initiative encompassing exhibitions, artist-led projects, and ongoing dialogue across art and image culture.
Featured Artists
— Artist list coming after Jan 15
Rooted in legacy, born from technology, Arsnl Art is the exclusive digital platform for Artists Rights Society (ARS) with access to all of its 120k+ member artists from around the globe. At ETHDenver, Arsnl presents Frank Stella: Geometries. Stella has been utilizing computer-aided design and 3D printing to create work since the early 1990s. Geometries is the culmination of a decades long exploration of computation, painting, and physical space by one of the most legendary living artists.
Illust.(/) brings an augmented reality experience to the ETHDenver Art Gallery. Illust. is a no code, browser based AR publishing suite that uses blockchain to protect digital works and anchor stories to physical locations, allowing audiences to experience them anywhere in the world.
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