WAC Lab
The Web3 Innovation Lab for the Arts & Culture
The Web3 Innovation Lab for the Arts & Culture
‘Unlocking Web3 for the Arts and Culture’ (WAC Lab) is an innovation laboratory where art professionals, cultural institutions, technologists, and strategists come together to learn, discuss, and experiment with web3.
Launched in December 2021, WAC Lab is organised by We Are Museums, in collaboration with LAL ART.
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Our Programs
A space to discuss freely and learn. WAC Weekly is a recurring online conversation where we exchange knowledge on the latest relevant topics on the intersection of web3 and the arts and cultures. WAC Weekly is organised every Wednesday at 6pm CET.
WAC Weekly
A learning and mentoring journey for arts and culture institutions. This is a multiple weeks program to learn about blockchain and web3, how these new technologies can be used by museums. Through intensive teaching and tutorship, make your museum team be web3-ready (upon application).
WAC Museums
An accelerator program to build your first web3 project. This is a 4-week program to developed your first web3 project in close collaboration with a web3 tech integrators . This effort is intended to go beyond the current web3 trends and explore meaningful use cases for lasting impact.
WAC Factory
We gathered here all the info you need to start your web3 journey. Whether you are looking for examples of web3 art adoption, or just want to find where to collect art, it is all here.
WAC Resources
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WAC Lab in brief
WAC Lab, which stands for ‘Unlocking Web3 for the Arts and Culture’ Lab, is an innovation laboratory where art professionals, cultural institutions, technologists, and strategists collaborate to learn, discuss, and experiment with web3 technologies to enhance arts and culture.
You can participate in WAC Lab by registering for WAC Weekly, applying for WAC Museums when applications are open, or by joining WAC Factory to work on a blockchain project. You can also download handbooks and access various resources provided on their website to learn more and stay updated.
The WAC Lab programs are designed for arts and culture institutions including museums, foundations, galleries, art centers, festivals, fairs, and auction houses, but also for curators, artists, researchers and tech integrators interested in web3 for the arts and culture.
All WAC Lab programs are free of charge for participants and fellows.
WAC Lab has been blockchain agnostic from its inception, giving the priority to Tezos and Ethereum. However, WAC Factory, aiming to develop tech projects, prioritised the Tezos blockchain in Season 1 and Season 2.
- An education and onboarding for arts and culture institutions onto web3. We give you a crash course on web3 technologies including blockchain and NFTs, DAO, metaverse and AI, and plenty of good ideas on how to use them.
- An understanding how the web3 art space works - how it was created, who are the main players, where is it going
- This program is intended for arts and culture institutions including museums, art foundations, art centers. Non profit cultural institutions are encouraged to apply.
- The successful institutions will need to be represented by 1-4 fellows participating in the program.
- The program will be held digitally, and in English.
BeFantastic (India), C/O Berlin (Germany), Light Art Space Foundation (Germany), NXT Museum (The Netherlands), Octobre Numérique (France), Signal Festival (Czech Republic), Van Gogh Museum (The Netherlands), Villa Albertine (United States)
ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia), Belvedere Museum (Austria), Haus der Kunst München (Germany), HEK - House of Electronic Arts (Switzerland), French Ministry of Culture (France), Institute for Sound and Music (Germany), Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie (France), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka), National Taras Shevchenko Museum (partnering with ArtAegis and Modern Art Research Institute) (Ukraine), The Royal College of Art (United Kingdom) and the Wooko Makandie Foundation (The Netherlands).
Web3 projects are developed during a four-week incubator called WAC Factory, in collaboration with a selection of web3 tech providers. The developed prototypes are meant to illustrate a positive future for arts and culture institutions in the web3 space.
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