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Please join us for an evening of art and research talks to celebrate the opening of the NFT art gallery at Cornell Tech in New York City.

About This Event

The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) invites you to an evening of art, cutting-edge research, and NFTs. Join us at IC3’s inaugural NFT art gallery opening at Cornell Tech in New York City. Light refreshments will be served.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have created an exciting new area of research at the intersection of computer science, art, law, and economics. The event will feature the unveiling of an artist-made glass projection screen showcasing a gallery of NFTs that represent the latest NFT research from IC3. It will also feature talks highlighting advances in NFT technology from faculty and students across a range of disciplines.

Our thanks to Eirik Ulversøy, a.k.a. “Kitten Mittens,” and to Dapper Labs for their generous loan of historically important and rare CryptoKitties for our experiment at the event in the psychology of NFT viewing.

Featured event speakers will include:

• Ittay Eyal (Technion)
• James Grimmelman (Cornell Tech)
• Ari Juels (Cornell Tech)
• Mukti Khaire (Cornell Tech)
• Fernanda Viégas (Harvard Univ.)
• Martin Wattenberg (Harvard Univ.)

Event topics will include:

• Combatting bots in NFT drops and marketplaces
• NFT copyright
• NFTs and traditional art markets
• NFT fractionalization and “atomic” NFTs
• Physical encounters with NFTs
• NFT key management and lifecycle

Full program to come. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT, WITH NO ONLINE COMPONENT.

About IC3

The initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts (IC3) is a blockchain research initiative of faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Cornell Tech, EPFL, ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley, University College London, UIUC and the Technion. It’s based at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in NYC. IC3 uniquely meets the blockchain community’s urgent need for world-class expertise in computer science that spans cryptography, distributed systems, programming languages, game theory, and system security techniques. IC3 collaborates with domain experts in finance and banking, entrepreneurs, regulators, and open source software communities to move blockchain-based solutions from today’s white boards and proof-of-concepts to tomorrow’s fast and reliable financial systems of execution and record. Learn more at initc3.org.