Stories
Guest Work Agency regularly blogs about art news, cases, events and other updates for the industry in Australia and internationally.
Meet our Guest with Cornah Willis
For this story of Meet our Guest, we interviewed the newest member of the Guest Work Agency team, Cornah Willis. We are thrilled to have Cornah joining us as the Associate Director of the Guest Club, our membership network for emerging collectors and art lovers.
Guest Work Agency Comments on Legal Issues and Opportunities in the NFT Space
Guest Work Agency founder and director Alana Kushnir has spoken to legal publication Lawyers Weekly about legal issues and opportunities arising from the explosion of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Guest Work Agency Advises Blockchain.art: An NFT Platform Designed for the Art World
Guest Work Agency Director and Founder Alana Kushnir has advised Blockchain.art (BCA), the first NFT marketplace designed and built specifically for the needs of the 21st century art world.
Art Case Update - August 2021
Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally.
In this story, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and Paralegal Associate, Mia Schaumann, report on the Federal Court of Australia’s recent determination that an artificial intelligence system can be an inventor, the National Gallery of Australia’s repatriation efforts, an NFT copyright dispute… plus more.
Meet our Guest with Lucy McRae
For this story of Meet our Guest, Alana Kushnir interviewed Lucy McRae, an artist, filmmaker, inventor and body architect. McRae's work explores the cultural and emotional impacts science and cutting edge technology have on redesigning the body. She works across installation, film, photography, AI, genetic engineering and edible technology.
McRae has exhibited at museums, film festivals, institutes such as MIT, Ars Electronica and NASA and science forums across the world. Selected major artworks have been exhibited at Science Museum London, Centre Pompidou and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She is a visiting professor at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles; and is recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Release of the Serpentine Legal Lab Report 1
In this story, Guest Work Agency intern and Serpentine Legal Lab Research Associate, Jasper Salomonsz, shares his take on the Serpentine Research & Development (R&D) Platform’s recent release of Legal Lab Report 1: Art x Tech/Science Collaborations. Highlighting some of the key legal issues facing artists, technologists, arts institutions, tech companies and others when collaborating, this story offers a useful summary on the challenges faced by cutting edge creative practice.
Art of Business: Introducing Hoverboard Finance
Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art business – we want to provide you with useful insights, resources and tips on the day to day running of an art-oriented business.
In this Art of Business story our friends Rachael Hart and Jeremy Wortsman, co-founders of new art finance start-up Hoverboard Finance, share their innovative solution to the challenges of being paid on time for creative work.
Meet our Guest with Nancy Baker Cahill
For this story of Meet our Guest, we interviewed Nancy Baker Cahill, a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) app developed together with Drive Studio to challenge traditional experiences of public art, and to increase access to fine art through AR. She was named one of ARTnews’ The Deciders who will shape the Art World in 2021.