Pau Waelder is Senior Curator at Niio.art and an advisor at DAM Digital Art Museum. He holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from UOC. His work explores the intersection of art, technology, and society, focusing on digital art and the art market.
He has spoken at international conferences and institutions including Talking Galleries at MACBA, ISEA, Bozar, CCCB, and HeK Basel, contributing to debates on NFTs, artificial intelligence, and digital art.
His curatorial projects include Instructions Follow, D3US EX M4CH1NA, Real Time, Selphish, and Machine Cinema. At Niio.art, he oversees curated art programs across more than 100 venues worldwide. He has published widely on contemporary and digital art and authored You Can Be A Wealthy/Cash-Strapped Art Collector In The Digital Age (2020).
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Autoretrat o doble digital
Solo exhibition by the artists Clara Boj and Diego Díaz at Centre Cultural La Nau in Valencia. The curatorial project involved conceptualizing the space and suggesting new artworks.
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Among the Machines Catalogue
I contributed a text about the work of Lauren Moffatt for the publication documenting the exhibition Among the Machines at Zabludowicz Collection in London.
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Master PHotoESPAÑA 2022
Pau has taught a masterclass about the digital art market to students, explaining the development of the market and the transformations brought to photography by digital technologies such as geolocation and artificial intelligence.
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Talking Galleries 2022
Pau moderated the panel NFTs, now what? with the participation of Joe Kennedy, Beatriz Ordovás, Kate Vass, and Andrés Reisinger.
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Selling and Collecting Art Online: from Net Art to NFTs
Online course at NODE Curatorial Studies Online. Second edition, March 7 – April 4, 2022
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Why We Keep Talking About NFTs
In a very short period of time, NFTs have shaken up the art market and generated a financial bubble. The use of blockchain technology overcomes an old problem for net art, but also brings with it new controversies such as its environmental impact. We analyse the causes of this phenomenon and how it might develop…
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The challenges of the digital art market beyond the NFT boom
Interview by Valentina Tanni for ArtribuneThe following is the English version of the article published in Italian on April 1st, 2021 Hot topic of the moment, NFT and crypto art are the starting point to give the floor to Pau Waelder, critic and researcher engaged in the field of new media art. Pau Waelder is…
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Machines & Fictions. Félix Luque Sánchez
Machines & Fictions is a monograph on the work of Spanish artist Félix Luque Sánchez over the last twelve years, in collaboration with fellow artists Damien Gernay and Íñigo Bilbao. The book includes texts by leading scholars, curators, and art critics who discuss Luque’s artistic projects Chapter I: The Discovery (2009), Nihil Ex Nihilo (2011),…
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Collecting and Displaying Digital Art at Home
Zoom webinar hosted by Daata with leading digital art collectors, curators, and writers.
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Extimacy: surveillance and self-exposure
Lecture on intimacy, photography, and digital media at the Panoràmic Festival of Photography, Film, and Visual Culture in Barcelona.
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Hacking the Algorithmic City
Paper in Spanish written for the academic journal Hispanismes, Issue 14, 2020.
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Text for Small Format Biennial
A short text for the catalogue of the Biennale Internationale «Petit Format de Papier», organized by the Musée du Petit Format.
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Interview: digital art after COVID-19
Interview by curator and writer Maria Chiara Wang for the online magazine EXIBART
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Masterclass: curating digital art
Masterclass for the presentation of the Master’s Degree in Curating New Media Art at Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi).
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Gregory Chatonsky: Extinction at Niio
Curated selection of video artworks by Grégory Chatonsky on Niio.
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Heterotopias at Niio
Curated selection of video artworks by Serafín Álvarez, Daniel Canogar, Gerhard Mantz, Antoine Schmitt, and Pablo Valbuena on Niio.
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Beyond GANism: AI as conceptual art
Article written for CIAC AI MTL magazine, Issue 3 – 15 April, 2020
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Mainichi at Niio
Curated selection of video artworks by Thierry Fournier, Carlos Macià, and Román Torre on Niio.
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PERMEA. Master’s Degree in Mediation – 2nd Edition
Seminar on New Media Art at PERMEA Master’s Degree on Mediation and Education through Art. Universitat de València.
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Selphish. L’exposition de soi
Group exhibition at Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier) featuring the work of Martin John Callanan, Alix Desaubliaux, and Lauren Lee McCarthy. Co-curated with Thierry Fournier.
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Planetary Thinking
Article about the work of artist Martin John Callanan published in the peer-review journal Accesos (ISSN: 2530-447X).
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Curating New Media Art: Process, Interaction, Virtuality (4th edition)
Online course at NODE Curatorial Studies Online, Fourth edition. January 13 – February 3, 2020
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D3US EX M4CH1NA. Art and Artificial Intelligence
Group exhibition at LABoral Centro de Arte de Creación Industrial, Gijón (Spain). November 22, 2019 – May 16, 2020. Co-curated with Karin Ohlenschläger.
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Forum: Collecting Digital Art
Talk at Estampa Art Fair (Madrid) with artist Daniel Canogar, digital preservation expert Diego Mellado, and Eva Ruiz, director of the International Collectors Program.
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Coding in art and design
Open learning resource on coding in art and design co-authored with Paloma G. Díaz for the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).