In this panel discussion—moderated by Victoria Ivanova—Natalie Giorgadze, Marina Otero Verzier, and Caterina Benincasa discuss how the arts and culture can shape cultural policies that will allow them to play a part in reimagining the technological innovation that reorganizes society. Starting from the pros and cons of present infrastructures, they debate how cultural policymaking can support practices at the intersection of art, science, and technology in becoming indispensable innovation partners without compromising their critical and experimental nature.

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Panel Discussion
Present and Future Culture Stacks
Natalie Giorgadze (BE), Marina Otero Verzier (ES), Caterina Benincasa (IT), Victoria Ivanova (GB)
POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall
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Natalie Giorgadze
Natalie Giorgadze is a General Director of Culture Action Europe. She is responsible for designing and implementing the network’s strategy. Her focus lies in community development, knowledge creation and transfer, as well as strategic communications. Natalie’s background in NGOs includes roles within human rights and environmental networks. Natalie trained as a journalist and social psychologist.
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Photo: Marina Otero Verzier
Marina Otero Verzier
Marina Otero Verzier ist Architektin und Forscherin. Sie lehrt an der Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) der Columbia University, wo sie die Data Mourning Klinik leitet, die die Schnittstelle zwischen digitalen Infrastrukturen und Klimakatastrophen erforscht. Sie ist Gewinnerin des Harvard Wheelwright Prize und arbeitet mit wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen wie dem DIPC zusammen, um Prototypen wie Computational Compost zu entwickeln. Zudem hat sie an Chiles erstem Nationalen Plan für Datenzentren mitgewirkt und dabei eng mit lokalen Communities zusammengearbeitet, die sich an vorderster Front gegen Extraktivismus engagieren.
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Victoria Ivanova
Victoria Ivanova is a strategist, currently R&D Strategic Lead as part of Serpentine’s Arts Technologies team, where she leads the Future Art Ecosystems project, which incubates new infrastructural prototypes at the intersection of culture, technology, and society.
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Photo: Caterina Benincasa
Caterina Benincasa
Caterina Benincasa is curator of the SciArt project at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. With a background in physics, philosophy, history of science, contemporary art, and heritage studies, she has spent two decades fostering art–science–heritage dialogues. At JRC, she develops opportunities for collaboration and co-creation between artists, scientists, and policymakers.