Avatars & Digital Identity in ART — ART&VAULT x TAEX

• Type: Panel / Speaking Event (X Spaces)
• Date: October 13, 2025, 10 AM PT
• Platform: X Spaces (live audio)
• Co-hosts: ART&VAULT (@artandvault) and TAEX (@taex_com)
• Producers: Farrah Carbonell (@FARRAHXYZ), @aishacarmen555, @jrdsctt
• Moderators: Sofya Chibis (TAEX), @fiatfire (ART&VAULT)
• Recording: MP3 archived at INTERNAL/Publications/ART&VAULT x TAEX_ Avatars & Digital Identity in ART.mp3

Panelists

• Max Capacity (@maxcapacity / @maxcapacityart) — glitch, pixel, and analog-digital hybrid artist
• Shavonne Wong (@shavonnewong_) — Singapore-based new-media artist; 3D/AI/virtual humans; Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia; Venice Biennale
• Robek World (@robek_world / rwx) — early NFT artist, collector, writer; co-founder of sealed.art
• Marina Abramovic Element (@MAE_TAEX) represented by Stefarel — TAEX’s Abramovic digital avatar collaboration

Discussion

Panel explored how artists use avatars and digital identity as creative tools — extending presence, reshaping identity, and blurring the line between self and image in Web3/NFT/AI contexts. Max discussed PFPs and NFTs as tools for evolving personal branding. Robek World on how digital identity can become someone’s “real” identity. Abramovic Element angle: digital avatars letting artists explore extreme ideas without physical risk.

Context

• Co-hosted by ART&VAULT (digital art curation platform focused on exhibitions, presence, and embodiment, founded by Farrah Carbonell) and TAEX (contemporary digital art platform, running the Marina Abramovic Element project)
• Promoted via video clips on X and Instagram
• No major external press coverage; engagement within digital art/Web3 community

Links

• X Spaces link (likely expired)

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