Artissima and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT launched Beyond Production in 2021, a conceptual platform that has encouraged reflections on the most innovative trends of contemporary art at each edition, investigating how they are related to the art market, the production of works of art, the research of artists and the role of art galleries.

In 2021 Beyond Production presented Surfing NFT, a project to investigate a phenomenon that had become a lively factor in the contemporary debate: NFTs and their relationship with contemporary art, its value chain and its market. In 2022, with the chapter focused on the Metaverse, titled METAmorphosis, Beyond Production explored this complex phenomenon, bringing out its potentialities and limits and proposing a critical and educational perspective for art world professionals (galleries and artists) and the general public of art lovers.

Now at its third iteration, Beyond Production confirms Ilaria Bonacossa as its curator, Director of the Museo Nazionale dell’Arte Digitale – MNAD of Milano, and organizes a Symposium, a context of in-depth reflection on the relationship between new technologies, art and society, conducted from three different vantage points: by artists and professionals of the art world, technicians and those who focus on the legal and ethical aspects of these new media. A cycle of research, open to the public, which at the same time sets out to reflect on the path it has taken through the contributions of outstanding international speakers. One ingredient of the project, in line with the identity of the platform Beyond Production, will be the involvement of Artificial Intelligence in the documentation of the contents of the Symposium.