Department for Illustration Futures and Web3 Possibilities

Join members of UALs Digital Maker Collective and special guests as we explore digital making and new opportunities in the wacky, wonderful and sometimes confusing world of web3. From web3 art marketplaces to web3 social media, there’s a growing community of innovators who are forging new creative careers opportunities in the web3 space.

  • Date: Friday, 29th November 2024
  • Venue: Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, 45 - 65 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UF
  • Time: 11:00 - 16:00
  • Free to attend - full programme and workshop booking info to follow 

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Event is part of the Office for Speculative Landscapes: Department for Illustration futures programme.

Image (detail) by Zhannet Podobed - Artist and MA Fine Art student: Computational Arts, Camberwell

The Web3 art movement over the past few years has seen a massive resurgence of creativity across the globe, it’s like one huge decentralised experimental art school. With this exciting resurgence, we’ve seen innovations across all media art forms and creative practices, merging traditional and new digital making practices, from pen and ink, weaving to generative art, code and AI.

We invite you to drop in and join us for an informative day of discussion, debate and workshops. Join informal sessions throughout the day as we aim to help you get started with digital making and web3 art, learn about emerging digital art processes and explore web3 art opportunities.

We also encourage critical discourse about how web3 art and digital making may impact on the future of arts education, creative entrepreneurship and careers of art students.

Book event here: web3 art school event booking


Workshops and activites:

  • Volumetric Video Demo
  • Pen Plotter Demo
  • Ask us about web3 - drop in and chat
  • VR drawing - drop in, try and chat

    • Main Workshops

  • 11:00 -12:00 - Workshop: VR drawing (Gravity Sketch)
  • 12:00 - 13:00 - Workshop: Generative Art with p5.js and fx(hash)
  • 13:00 - 14:00 - Fireside Chat: Ask us anything - Getting started with web3
  • 14:00-15:00 - Lecture: "The New Digital Art Community" Alex Estorick
  • 15:00-16:00 - Workshop: VR drawing (Gravity Sketch)

    • Themes explored

    • What is Web3 and how do I get started?
    • Learn about web3 crypto wallets (opportunities and risks of using crypto wallets)
    • Setting up a crypto wallet
    • Intro to web3 art platforms- selling creative content art, illustrations, NFTs etc.
    • Web3 social media – extend visibility, earn as you post or for like content
    • Ethics, risks and impacts on mental health in the web3 space
    • Introduction to zeroone – get started in web3 for free, without the need for cryptocurrency or fees - Mint an NFT on ZEROONE
    • Opportunities in the web3 space (sharing practice)
    • Impact on the creator/collector and curator economies
    • Web3 social media (rodeo / warpcast/ zeroone ... how to promote yourself in the web3 space/ marketing

    Digital Making Workshops:

    • Hands on with the Meta Quest 2 and 3 – drawing in Virtual Reality VR
    • Pen plotter drawing
    • Introduction to getting started with generative art
    • Material practices into digital and back again
    • Digital making and web3 exhibition (examples)

    'The New Digital Art Community'


    Its a great pleasure to be welcome Alex Estorick for his lecture 'The New Digital Art Community'

    Bio: Alex Estorick is a writer, editor, and curator based in London. As Editor-in-Chief of Right Click Save, he seeks to develop critical and inclusive approaches to emerging technologies. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He writes for various publications, from Frieze to the Financial Times, and was lead author of the first aesthetics of crypto art. This year, he curated “Patterns of Flow” at NEORT++ in Tokyo and on Feral File, while his artistic collaboration with Ana María Caballero, artifacts, was nominated for The Lumen Prize. His edited volume, Right Click Save: The New Digital Art Community (2024), is published by Vetro Editions.

    Lecture: Since the NFT explosion, Right Click Save has sought to document a new community of creators and collectors while driving critical conversations about emerging technology. In this lecture, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Alex Estorick, introduces the aesthetics, meanings, and media of this new hybrid community, while celebrating pioneering artists historically ignored by the art world.