Quogue 2025 Summer Series: Fanny Lakoubay in Conversation with Charlotte Kent
Curious, skeptical, or simply overwhelmed by how AI is used in art? Join digital art advisor Fanny Lakoubay and art theorist Charlotte Kent for an accessible and lively talk demystifying AI-generated art and its market realities. We'll unpack common myths from “AI art is bad” to “AI will replace all artists”, and explore how artists are using these tools intelligently, how collectors can navigate this evolving space, and what’s actually worth paying attention to. You’ll leave with clear definitions, visual examples, and a practical resource guide.
Fanny Lakoubay is a French-born digital art advisor, curator and collector with more than 15 years in the traditional art+tech market (Artnet, Collectrium, and Christie’s). Over the past six years she has developed relationships of trust in the blockchain art and AI ecosystem (digital art collectors, crypto artists, developers, fellow curators, art marketplaces, galleries, and institutions). She currently contributes to the educational program, WAC LAB, which assists museums and cultural institutions in their exploration of Web3 innovation.
Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an arts writer and Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University. She specializes in 20th and 21st century art, digital culture and emergent technologies, with a focus on situating these within a historical and ecological trajectory of culture and politics. She co-authored Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists In Times Square. She is co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art and is currently working on Contemporary Art & Technology: Rethinking Systems, Crises, and the Absurd (for Routledge series, Art and Science After 1750).
Author conversations begin at 5:00 PM followed by a Q&A and a wine reception, book sales and signing.
