Digital Innovation in Art
Award by .ART

A collector of crypto and digital art and a contributor to Forbes and the Observer, Elena Zavelev is an avid advocate of new media art. She is also dedicated to discovering emerging new media artists and creating new opportunities for them to show and sell their work through her roles as the founder and CEO of New Art Academy – the authority on ArtTech, blockchain and artificial intelligence – and CADAF, a digital art marketplace supported by real life and virtual art fairs and festivals. Since it launched in 2017, CADAF has gone from strength to strength, hosting events in Miami, Monaco, Paris and the metaverse, and the first-ever contemporary and digital art fair, in New York in 2019.

Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly, Shanghai Biennale, Berlinale International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, Gwangju Biennale, Center Pompidou, Tate Modern, Garage Museum, Istanbul Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tensta Konsthall, Blaffer Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Lincoln Center, MMCA Seoul, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, and others.

Dean Phelus is senior director of special projects at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). In his nearly three decades at AAM he has had a diverse range of experiences through various positions to include: overseeing the AAM Annual Meeting and Museum Expo, the largest professional convening for museums in the world; guiding AAM professional development and training programs to ensure museum professionals and their institutions maximize their competencies to advance their service and relevancy to their public; and launching international initiatives and partnerships with museums, and other cultural institutions around the globe to foster a shared understanding of museum practices. He is also editor in chief of Museum magazine, an award-winning bi-monthly publication that explores the timely issues that matter most to the museum field’s growth and flourishing.

Rachel is the CEO at SAGA Invest, vice president of Paris chamber of commerce and a board member at a number of cultural organisations. She is the co-founder of Jérôme Dreyfuss brand, Rachel Sebban’s DNA runs on power and wonder. Symbol of a step forward businesswoman, she started her career as a chief legal officer and then made her mark in the luxury fashion industry. As a real-life talented wonder woman of the modern world, success grows where Rachel goes.

Michael Royce is the Executive Director of the New York Foundation for the Arts a U.S. based national nonprofit serving artists, cultural workers, and arts organizations. Since the pandemic began, Royce has overseen the fundraising and distribution of $21 million in Covid aid. Since taking over the organization he has launched many new services, including a national immigrants artists program, tri-state incubators for executive arts leaders of color, statewide workshops for leaders supporting underserved communities, national grants to address climate change, local grants to artists with disabilities, and national grants to Latin artists.

Previously, Royce had been appointed by Governor Pataki as the Deputy Director of the New York State Council on the Arts, followed by an appointment as the President of Moynihan Station Development Corporation. Royce also served as an on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts for fifteen years.

Jean-Baptiste Costa de Beauregard is deputy CEO of Beaux Arts & Cie, managing the group’s publishing activities (Beaux Arts Magazine, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Beaux Arts Editions, …). He also founded the group’s annual European art market professionals gathering, The Art Market Day, in 2018. Furthermore, Jean-Baptiste is theInvestment director of ArtNova, the investment fund owning Beaux Arts & Cie and active in the art & tech industry.

An HEC Paris alumni, Jean-Baptiste previously led the Fine art insurance team at Hiscox in Paris and developed Christie’s Collectrium in Europe, a collection management platform.

Adriano is the Art & Finance coordinator for the Deloitte group of member firms. He is in charge of the Art & Finance activities within Deloitte Luxembourg, an initiative he has been coordinating since its inception in 2008. Adriano also coordinates the development of the Art & Finance activities at the Deloitte group level. Over the past decade, Adriano has been working towards the creation of an Art & Finance/Business cluster in Luxembourg.

To create public awareness of the Art & Finance subject, Adriano initiated the international Deloitte Art & Finance Conference cycle that has become the annual benchmark event in the field. He has also developed Art & Finance seminars for professionals seeking guidance about the global art market and he is the co-author of the Deloitte and ArtTactic Art & Finance Report. As the spokesperson of the Art & Finance initiative within Deloitte, he regularly speaks at national and international conferences.