FLUX: Female Digital Creativity
25 9 – 31 10 2025
The works you see here are the result of a brave experiment. The FLUX project has attempted to reverse a series of biases that structure the controversial new field of blockchain art. To date, this area, as in the technology industry with which it is closely associated, has been largely male-dominated and commercially oriented. Nevertheless, the decentralized openness of the blockchain format provides an opportunity for women and other underrepresented groups to express their creative skills and identities in a new context. With professional training and support, more than 60 FLUX participants have applied their existing artistic practices to this new form, challenging assumptions about what blockchain art can or should be. The selected works by the students deal with both collective and deeply personal preoccupations through this new medium. The artists have transformed painting, sculpture, drawing, and other traditional forms into new vibrant shapes. In this sense, these works propose a way forward that allows individual female artists to bring other techniques, ideas, and experiences into a large commercial genre. The works refuse to be intimidated by accelerated technologies; rather, they collaborate, play, and dance with them, representing a new optimistic vision of 21st-century female digital creativity.
Alexei Monroe
a: Kristina Antolić, Petra Brnardić, Anna Bulkina, Crystal Clean, Nataša Gregorič Nabhas, Maja Kos, Monika Kukučević, Sara Lerota, Jelena Martinović, Nat, Stella Skopal
The project FLUX – Female Digital Creativity, co-financed by the European Commission, is a joint initiative of the organisations Labin Art Express XXI (HR), Alice in Blockchains (HR), Museum of Transitory Art MOTA (SI), and MEET Digital Culture Centre (IT). The goal of the project is to develop, present, and promote female digital creativity and to encourage a greater engagement of women artists in the field of new technologies, especially blockchain and NFTs. FLUX empowers female artists and encourages the development of their professional and critical discourse in this emergent contemporary medium. Through a programme of workshops, artistic residencies, conferences, and exhibitions, the project addresses the issue of gender equality in the NFT art market. The culmination of the project will be an autumn 2025 exhibition in the context of the 5th Industrial Art Biennial in Istria, plus at MOTA in Ljubljana and MEET in Milan.