Bay to speak at INOCON 23 on “Unfolding the Metaverse” for artists
Bay has been invited to speak at INOCON 2023, the Innovation/Nomad Music and Tech Conference. 29th April in Valencia, Spain.
Keep readingBlockster interviews Bay and Vueltta on their Vivienne Westwood game and installation
Bay speaks with Blockster reporter Jess Declercq on Vueltta’s new installation for Metaverse Fashion Week 2023.
Keep readingBay interviewed by ‘bible of fashion’ WWD about Vueltta’s Vivienne Westwood metaverse installation
Bay interviewed by Women’s Wear Daily reporter Adriana Lee about her work for Metaverse Fashion Week 2023.
Keep readingBay interviewed for the Decentraland DAO Metaverse Creator Series
Bay was honored to be interviewed for Decentraland DAO’s Creator Series alongside metaverse musician Serena Elis.
Keep readingBay chaired the mainstage of Global Robot Expo 2022 – photos of the event
Bay was invited to chair Global Robot Expo 2022, Europe’s leading trade fair for 4.0 industry, A.I. and robotics. Held on Nov 30 – Dec 1, the fair also showcased new metaverse innovations for industry.
Keep readingBay invited to lecture on metaverse at Berklee College of Music
Bay has been invited to open the 2023 guest lecture series at Berklee College of Music. She will speak to Graduate Students on Berklee’s Valencia campus as part of the university’s renowned Global Entertainment & Music Business Program. Bay’s lecture will be on current metaverse technologies…
Keep readingThe world’s first performance art piece in the metaverse
‘Muses 2 // Metaverse Performance’ was the world’s first performance art piece in the metaverse. Created and performed in Decentraland by Bay Backner, in collaboration with Vueltta.
Keep readingRelics : Decentraland selfies in a real-life art exhibition
Exhibiting 35 selfies by the Decentraland metaverse community in a real-life art exhibition. A collaboration with Vueltta, the metaverse art collective.
Keep readingUniversity lecture series on Metaverses, NFTs, Marketplaces and DAOs
Bay was invited by Mudit, the metaverse art museum, to design and deliver a 30 hour lecture series on Metaverses, NFTs, Marketplaces and DAOs. This was taught in UPV (Universitat Politècnica de València) over ten days in October 2022.
Keep readingBay interviews Decentraland metaverse’s Sam Hamilton at NFT Show Europe 2022
Decentraland interview at NFT Show Europe Bay was asked to interview Sam Hamilton, Decentraland’s Creative Director on the mainstage of NFT Show Europe 2022. Sam spoke on the theme of their interview, “The first-ever virtual world owned by its users”. Bay moderated questions live from the…
Keep readingBay’s talk on Metaverse NFT Installations // Metaverse Art Week 2022, Decentraland
Bay recently presented her talk ‘Four Laws for Metaverse Creators’ at NFT Show Europe 2022. The talk tours metaverse art installations by projects including Decentraland, OpenSea, Rarible, Studio as We Are and Vueltta, the art collective Bay founded with designer Adrián Martínez.
Keep readingThe Labyrinth Effect Installations, Metaverse Art Week 2022
A series of metaverse art installations and events called “The Labyrinth Effect”, held in two Decentraland locations – Edifice Metaversal [2, -39] and the new Vueltta gallery in Indie Village [95, 27].
Keep readingBay Backner invited to be the guest metaverse curator for NFT Show Europe 2022
Bay is delighted to announce that she has been invited to be the guest metaverse curator for NFT Show Europe 2022. In this role, Bay will work alongside artist Pablo Alpe of Vitamin Studio to program the agenda and art exhibitions for the two day event.…
Keep readingSelected for the ‘MHOUSE History of Crypto Art’ exhibition at ETH Barcelona 2022
MHOUSE has selected Bay as one of their three artists to be exhibited in the ‘History of Crypto Art’ exhibition at ETH Barcelona, 6-8 July 2022. ETH Barcelona is a major industry event which is bringing together 2000 artists, makers and developers to ‘explore how blockchain…
Keep readingBay selected for the Women’s Museum Genesis Collection for #1of1 Tezos July 2022
Bay is delighted that her work ‘Rimas de Bécquer’ has been selected for the Museum of Contemporary Women’s Art first Tezos collection, ‘Genesis’.The Museum of Contemporary Women’s Art (known as Women’s Museum on twitter) was founded by artist and activist Bárbara Bezini. The museum’s mission is…
Keep readingCurator Jon Sharples Selects Bay Backner for NFT Liverpool
Bay Backner is delighted to have been selected for NFT Liverpool by curator Jon Sharples. Her work ‘Els Amàvem’ will be shown during the week of 14 – 19 June.
Keep readingSHOWCASE // Experience Art in the Metaverse – new exhibition and events (2022)
In May 2022, Bay produced a new metaverse exhibition and series of events for NFT platform Orica. Called SHOWCASE, featuring NFTs by 21 major digital artists…
Keep readingREFUGE metaverse exhibition guide released as BNB NFT (2022)
Following the success of REFUGE, the metaverse art event for Ukraine, Bay worked to release the pdf guide of the show as a charity NFT. The NFT was dropped for just one month on the BNB chain via the Orica NFT platform. Using the smart contract…
Keep readingBay Backner exhibits in Megacube 2 as a Premium Artist (2022)
Bay’s work was exhibited today as part of the world’s largest collaborative P2E (‘play to earn’) metaverse game, MegaCube 2. This once-yearly multiplayer experience takes the form of a gigantic cube in the Decentraland metaverse
Keep readingBay Backner to Speak at Financial Times Summit
Bay Backner has been invited by The Financial Times Live to speak at this month’s Crypto & Digital Asset Summit. Bay will contribute to the panel discussion “Non-fungible tokens – balancing risk and reward” chaired by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Banking and Fintech Correspondent for the Financial TimesOther…
Keep readingREFUGE metaverse exhibition raises $28000 for Ukraine (2022)
In March 2022, Bay produced REFUGE, the metaverse art event for Ukraine in Orica Gallery. The show raised $28000 in the BNB cryptocurrency, which was transparently donated via blockchain philanthropy platform The Giving Block’s Ukraine Emergency Response Fund.Bay’s first step in producing the charity show was…
Keep readingBay Backner Interviewed By Dublin Radio on creativity & NFTs
Bay was invited onto the Dublin City FM show ‘Making a Difference’ to talk creativity, NFTs and how artists are using technology to fundraise for Ukraine.Many thanks to presenter Jillian Godsill for the invitation and interview.For those of you interested in supporting Ukraine artists, this aggregator…
Keep readingBay Backner Curates Orica’s Launch NFT Exhibition for Uganda NGO
Bay Backner has joined Orica, the ethical NFT platform as Head of Growth & Curation. Her first role was to curate the launch exhibition ‘A Fairer World’, sales from which were used to fund a school in the Ssese Islands, Uganda.Bay selected Mellowmann, an emerging digital…
Keep readingBay Backner Launches Thursday Society with Founder Members
Today Bay, together with eight founder-members, launched Thursday Society – the first open, inclusive and global artists’ collective.
Keep readingPhotos from the Opening Night of Dirty Pink Art Exhibition, Russafa
‘Dirty Pink’, a new exhibition curated by Tina McCallan, opened last night in Russafa. Bay is excited to be showing her paintings ‘Allegory’ and ‘Confession’ alongside work by twelve international women artists. The exhibition will be open at Sporting Club Russafa every weekend until 31st July…
Keep readingBay Backner Exhibiting In ‘Dirty Pink’, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia
Bay is delighted to be exhibiting in this summer’s collective show ‘Dirty Pink’ in Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia. The exhibition, curated by Tina McCallan is an exhibition of thirteen international women artists responding to the controversial colour pink. The exhibition opens on Friday 2nd July at…
Keep readingBay Backner to read her new book on creativity at Jan Royce Gallery
Join Bay for her book reading and discussion on creativity, this Sunday 30th May. You’ll hear Bay read from her new book The 21 Day Creative, a practical guide to creative fulfillment for busy lives.
Keep readingBay Backner interviewed by The Valencian on her current exhibition at Jan Royce Gallery
In The Valencian newspaper this week, critic and artist Tina McCallan interviews Bay about her artistic influences and her innovative techniques.
Keep readingBay Backner interviewed by Valencia TV News about her Art Walk initiative
Valencia’s A Punt TV News report about Art Walk, interviewing Bay about the aims of the initiative.
Keep readingBay Backner brings together eleven independent galleries for Art Walk Valencia
Bay created Art Walk Valencia as a new initiative to support independent art spaces in her city. Bay was interviewed by both Valencia TV news and radio, with some Art Walk spaces welcoming more than 300 visitors.
Keep readingBay Backner to show embroidered paintings about solitude, isolation and hope at Jan Royce Gallery
For new exhibition ¡Abril Despierta! Bay has made five figurative artworks in oil paint and hand-embroidery. These explore how identities are being shaped by this year’s pandemic, specifically how its experiences affect our subconscious minds.
Keep readingBay Backner in reopening exhibition at Blacks London
Blacks London set to reopen on 17th May. The legendary private members’ club will show two paintings by Bay Backner, curated in a collective exhibition by Runway Gallery.
Keep reading‘Blancanieves’ embroidered oil painting in art exhibition at Galeria Cuatro, Valencia
Bay is now showing Blancanieves, her new large-scale embroidered oil painting at Galeria Cuatro, Valencia. The work is part of collective exhibition Sexto Sentido, on show at the gallery until 3rd March 2021.
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