WAC-lab.xyz

💡

WAC Lab

Become web3 literate to enhance arts and 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 with a special focus on the Tezos blockchain.

Launched in December 2021, WAC Lab is organised by We Are Museums, in collaboration with Blockchain Art Directory 2.0 and LAL ART, and powered by the Tezos ecosystem.

Season 2 is over. Register here to receive news about Season 3 →

💡

Latest News

🟣 We just published the first edition of our new collection of handbooks. Click here to download the August issue “Blockchain 101”.

💡

Our Programs

🧘

WAC Weekly

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 Season 2 is over. But Season 3 will start in Autumn. Stay tuned.

Register here to receive news about Season 3 →

Check our past events →

Dive into our resources →

🧘

WAC Fellowship

A learning and prototyping journey for arts and culture institutions.

This is a 16-week program to learn about web3 and build a project for the arts and culture from scratch, through intensive and immersive teaching, tutorship, and prototyping (upon application).

Season 2 is over. The next call for applicants will open in October 2023.

‣

Program offerings

~~Educate and onboard eight arts and culture institutions onto web3. We’ll give them a crash course on the blockchain and NFTs, and plenty of good ideas on how to use them.~~

~~Create a body of examples of web3 working for cultural institutions. Not only are these inspiring proofs-of-concept, they’re open-source software institutions can use to build their own future.~~

‣

Who was part of the first cohort

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)

‣

Who was part of the second cohort

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 Reel Store (United Kingdom), The Royal College of Art (United Kingdom) and the Wooko Makandie Foundation (The Netherlands).

Learn more →

Sign up for the waitlist →

WAC Season 2 is over. Watch the Demo Day here

🧘

WAC Factory

We are inviting you to work with us to create the foundation for future projects and uses of the Tezos blockchain in the Arts & Culture field. Together with twelve cultural institutions, we will create opportunities for development and experimentation by co-creating open-source projects on the Tezos blockchain with the goal of testing and implementing them in the near future. This effort is intended to go beyond the current trend of drops and collectibles on blockchain.

WAC Factory is integrated within the WAC Fellowship, during the last 4 weeks.

WAC Season 2 is over. Watch the Demo Day here

Read about the previous hackathon →

🧘

WAC Resources

We gathered here all the info you need to start your web3 journey, but also the latest news and books to check. Whether you are looking for legal info or have questions about the sustainable aspect of blockchain, or just want to find where to collect art, it is all here.