Art, Law & NFTs

Leading our experienced team, Simon Oldfield is an art advisor, curator and lawyer, and an expert on the convergence of art, law and technology including NFTs and blockchain.  We advise a range of clients in this area including Hauser & Wirth and BMW.

We offer confidential advice rooted in market intelligence and extensive experience.  We are known for our breadth of knowledge, strong network and adept understanding of stakeholders in the artworld.  

An expert commentator on art, law and tech, Simon regularly gives talks, sharing his insights with recent highlights including the Talk Art podcast, Amazon Prime, BMW Welt, London School of Economics and GQ.  Established as a leading voice on how NFTs and blockchain technology is impacting the art world, changing the cultural landscape and offering a radically different approach to creating, exhibiting and valuing art, he is an authoritative guide for long-term strategies in this newly evolving space.  Talented at demystifying the complex, fast-changing world of NFTs, Simon aims to deliver deeper understanding of the possibilities NFTs afford the artworld and artists.  

We believe the world is on the cusp of a technological revolution that has the potential to entirely re-define the boundaries between our physical and digital realities.

Underpinned with a curatorial perspective, we are here to provide your organisation with strategic advice and to help you navigate the opportunities and mitigate the risks presented by this new cultural landscape at the intersection of art, law and tech. 

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Formed in 2021, Goldentailx channels the heightened energy of debate as we pass through this period of seismic change in culture and society.  

Goldentailx uses digital technology to explore gender, sexuality, physicality and connectivity.  They seek to forge dreamed realities to promote prototypes for a revisionary future. Their non-hierarchical collective combines the work of all to form the whole, all constituent parts as equals. Goldentailx believes in a fairer art world. 

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The artists in the Goldentailx collective have exhibited internationally, in galleries, museums and with independent arts spaces. These includes; Tate Modern, Royal Academy of the Arts, V&A Museum, Annenberg Space for Photography Los Angeles, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Lisboa Soa Festival, White Cube Gallery and others. 

The collective also shares its work outside of the gallery context using non-traditional platforms and unconventional indoor/outdoor locations.

DIGITAL TAIL VOLUMES PREVIEW:: A new body of work that inverts the male gaze.  It challenges the objectification and representation of the female body in the music industry and explores the boundaries of sexual and gender identity.  In the work, male models recreate the hyper-sexualized dances and poses used in music videos by some of the most commercially successful female artists. Each motion and sound is chosen to underscore the imbalance of bodily representation in the music industry, blur gender binaries and shift power dynamics. These works try on this new position, a female gaze upon the male body.

The familiar beat of music videos is replaced with a new layered sound world.  Sound is re-imagined and composed from original field recordings to inhabit the work in equivalence to the images: mating calls by gibbons at dawn in Southern Borneo are answered by urban foxes in the suburban night, bodily gyrations set against an East London street sound of beating drums as planes soar overhead.

DIGITAL TAIL VOLUMES will continue to evolve with each volume released as an NFT.  Curated by Simon Oldfield. 

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