Legal Lab Live: Indigenous Sovereignty in the Metaverse
Image: Still from Original Artwork by Bibi Barbar for Serpentine Legal Lab 2022.
How can the metaverse support Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property, sovereign rights and custodianship? What are the challenges faced by Indigenous-led creative practices within persistent, concurrent, virtual contexts?
In the second instalment of the Serpentine Legal Lab Live series, Serpentine Legal Lab Principal Investigator and Director of Guest Work Agency, Alana Kushnir, and Australian First Nations Cultural Broker and Author Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat explore Indigenous agency and data sovereignty in the metaverse, and the relevance of ICIP.
The metaverse – an always-online, persistent, spatial ‘second’ world and an emerging internet megastructure – is a landscape Serpentine Arts Technologies continues to interrogate through artistic commissions and culturally-led research and development. Under the leadership of Serpentine Legal Lab’s Principal Investigator, Alana Kushnir, legal issues in the metaverse concerning intellectual property, moral rights and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) are ongoing areas of discussion. Addressing these considerations is key to securing the future roles of both artists and cultural organisations in the metaverse.
CULTURAL DISCLAIMER
Please be advised: this session may contain the names, images and voices of people who are now deceased. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural content shared in this session is Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), which means that you should not reproduce or communicate this cultural content without permission from the knowledge holders of that culture.
ABOUT SERPENTINE LEGAL LAB
The Serpentine Legal Lab is part of the London-based Serpentine Galleries’ R&D Platform and explores how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology. It is a space for investigating legal issues and prototyping accessible legal solutions for the art field.
Alana has been the Legal Lab’s Principal Investigator since its inception in 2019. To find out more about Legal Lab’s work, listen to this Warfare of Art & Law Podcast featuring Alana as a special guest.
THE LEGAL LAB LIVE SERIES
The ‘Indigenous Sovereignty in the Metaverse’ Legal Lab Live session will streamed on Twitch on Thursday 20 October from 12:00-13:00 BST/22:00-23:00 AEDT/07:00-08:00 in real time. This is the second instalment from the series of free, live streamed conversations on law and the metaverse presented throughout 2022.
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Guest Work Agency is a boutique art law and advisory firm based in Melbourne, but international in reach. It is the first dedicated art law practice in Australia, working with artists, collectors, galleries, arts organisations, art fairs and art tech start-ups.
For more information contact us at info@guestworkagency.art