Present and Future Culture Stacks

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Intersections I: Art, Policy, and Political Discourse

Panel Discussion

Present and Future Culture Stacks

Natalie Giorgadze (BE), Marina Otero Verzier (ES), Caterina Benincasa (IT), Victoria Ivanova (GB)

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.

POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall
Fri 5. Sep 2025 11:10 – 11:55

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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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    Marina Otero Verzier

    Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher. She teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) of Columbia University, where she leads the Data Mourning clinic, exploring the intersection between digital infrastructures and climate catastrophe. A Harvard Wheelwright Prize winner, she collaborates with scientific institutions such as the DIPC on developing prototypes like Computational Compost. She contributed to Chile’s first National Data Centers Plan alongside local communities on the front lines of the fight against extractivism.

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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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    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.

Presented in the context of European Digital Deal. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.