Elena Carbajal

is a curator and researcher focused on the intersections of contemporary art, emerging technologies and cultural theory. She works for Onkaos, the digital art department of SOLO Contemporary, where she supports artistic practices that critically engage with the cultural, aesthetic, and cognitive transformations shaped by technological artifacts and infrastructural systems.

Her curatorial work explores how emerging media, particularly artificial intelligence and algorithmic processes, reconfigure modes of perception, authorship, and representation.

Elena collaborates regularly with institutions, artists, and researchers to foster cross-disciplinary dialogues around computation, posthuman imaginaries, and the future of artistic production.

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How can we truly speak of blockchain-native aesthetics?

For a moment, the promise of a new cultural formation derived from a distinctive visual and symbolic vocabulary native to blockchain technologies, cryptographic economies and digital subjectivities seemed possible and desirable. But can we truly speak of blockchain-native aesthetics? Can such aesthetics be meaningfully integrated into the history of art, media theory, or social formation? We propose the term "web3 aesthetics” to interrogate and articulate a theory of art that would operate specifically on NFT markets and link it to the current discussions on digital art.

We understand aesthetics not as “decoration,” nor as that which is simply “beautiful,” but as the systematic production and critical analysis of sensation, value, and cultural consensus, as well as the study of the mediums that constitute the narratives and discourses attached to our understanding of the world.

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