WAC Lab: A Catalyst for Transformation
WAC Lab (Web3 for the Arts & Culture) represents an opportunity to reshape the art and culture landscape through web3 literacy and experimentation.
It turns knowledge seekers into advocates, ensuring that adoption aligns with strategic goals. By nurturing a generation of digitally empowered cultural professionals, we envision a future where web3 innovation seamlessly enriches institutions' expression and audience engagement.
WAC Lab was launched in 2021 by We Are Museums, an NGO based in France.
It turns knowledge seekers into advocates, ensuring that adoption aligns with strategic goals. By nurturing a generation of digitally empowered cultural professionals, we envision a future where web3 innovation seamlessly enriches institutions' expression and audience engagement.
WAC Lab was launched in 2021 by We Are Museums, an NGO based in France.
Guiding Arts & Culture Through Transformation
After more than a decade of guiding museums through change and innovation, We Are Museums embarked in 2021 on a web3 journey with the program “WAC Lab” (which stands for ‘Web3 for the Arts and Culture’), catalyzing the fusion of art and culture with web3 technologies. With the support of key partners, our mission is to equip professionals with web3 literacy, leveraging a range of innovative programs and resources. As the ultimate educational platform for web3 innovation in the arts and culture, our vision unfolds, uniting cultural institutions and builders to usher in socio-technological evolution.
Origins
Designed in close collaboration with TZ Connect (former Berlin entity of the Tezos Foundation) and LAL Art Advisory, prototyped with LAS Art Foundation, WAC Lab was launched in December 2021 in ArtBasel Miami Beach.
Objectives
- Onboarding and EngagementProactively introduce arts and culture players to web3 benefits.
- Education and EmpowermentEmpower art and culture professionals with essential web3 skills.
- Innovation and CollaborationStimulate blockchain integration and development, and transformative partnerships.
Who We Are
A team of passionate arts & culture professionals decided to join forces to onboard museums on their web3 journey.
- Diane DrubayFounder & Executive Lead
- Maxime LapradeOperations Lead
- Fanny LakoubayEducation Lead
- Dani JozsefBlockchain & AI Lead
Who joined WAC Lab?
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), the Wooko Makandie Foundation (The Netherlands), Cleveland Public Library (United States), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (United States), Design Museum Brussels (Belgium), Die Neue Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne (Germany), Domaine national de Chambord (France), FUNDACIÓN UXÍO NOVONEYRA (Spain), Grand Egyptian Museum (Egypt), House of Arts Veszprém (Hungary), Hungarian National Museum (Hungary), IKSV - Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Turkey), Museum Ulm (Germany), Muzeul National de Arta Timisoara (Romania), Palais de Tokyo (France), Parque Explora Corporation - Interactive Science Museum (Colombia), Sigg Art Foundation (Belgium), Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (Greece), Swiss National Museum (Switzerland), The Kyiv National Art Gallery (Ukraine), Van Gogh Museum (The Netherlands), and XR HUB Bavaria (Germany).
BeFantastic (India), LAS Art Foundation (Germany), NXT Museum (The Netherlands), Octobre Numérique (France), Signal Festival (Czech Republic), ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia), 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), 221A (Canada), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (United States), Domaine national de Chambord (France), Museum Ulm (Germany), Swiss National Museum (Switzerland), XR HUB Bavaria (Germany), Goethe Institute Lisbon (Portugal), Royal Danish Collection (Denmark), Museo de Arte Popular José Hernandez (Argentina), Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico).
Brian Beccafico, Charlotte Kent, Bernadine Bröcker Wieder (Arcual), Kristina Leipold (LAS Art Foundation), Sarah Odenkirk, Mo El-Sayed (Ledger), Benjamin Fuentes (Marigold), Regina Harsanyi (Museum of Moving Image NYC), Michael Nguyen (FeralFile), Martijn van Schaik (Metaseum), Julie Walsh, Sutu, Jesse Damiani, Frédéric Laffy (ArtConsortium), Nina Roehrs, Anika Meier (expanded.art), Sammie Veeler (NewArt City), Paul Schmidt (fxhash), Foteini Valeonti, Erika Knierim, Alex Estorick (Right Click Save), Fabien Siouffi (Octobre Numérique), Merel van Helsdingen (NXT Museum), Christopher King (ClubNFT), Sebastien Heimann (TheGoodSociety), Carlota Dochao (Superblue), Sasha Stiles (TheVERSEVerse).
Smartchain, fx(hash), Keru, Marigold, Naan Wallet, dOrg / Homebase, Lucify, objkt.com, DANAE, BrokenEgg, ArtifactLabs, Nimi
Karen Levy (AIKA), Stina Gustafsson, Elena Zavelev (CADAF), Sammie Veeler (NewArtCity), George Vitale (Synthesis Gallery), Nate Nelson, Tristan Nicolaides (TZ Connect), Elian Carsenat (UnCopied), Douglas McCarthy, Kirk Finkel (untitled,xyz), Nina Röhrs, Alfredo (fxhash), Bernadine Bröcker Wieder (Arcual), Gauthier Zuppinger, Charlotte Kent, Rahim Unlu and Julie Walsh (NFT Biennial), Brian L Frye, Tina Rivers Ryan (Buffalo AKG Art Museum), Jason Bailey and Christopher King (ClubNFT), Delphine Ract Madoux, Ruth Catlow (Futherfield), Penny Rafferty, Anika Meier (Expanded.art), Cynthia Gayton, Chanel Verdult (UnicornDAO), Regina Harsanyi (Museum of the Moving Image), Eric Grebille (Opéra de Paris), Henri Jouhaud (Polyconseil), OBVIOUS, Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum of American Art), Martijn Van Schaik (Metaseum), Lady Cactoid, Constance de Marliave (Musée d'Orsay), Madeleine Pierpont (MoMA), Sean Moss-Pultz (Bitmark), and more to come.