"What are the forces currently shaping the digital art landscape? What is it like to work across the worlds of traditional art and web3? And how are artists, cultural workers, and the wider public responding to the latest experiments with blockchain technology? These were the questions at the core of “Present Digital,” a discussion held on March 4 at this year’s edition of the Global Art Forum in Dubai, featuring Clara Che Wei Peh and Audrey Ou, and moderated by Chris Fussner. Ou is co-founder and CEO of TRLab, an NFT platform launched in 2021. She grew up around art—her family founded the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai—and is interested in the potential for web3 to increase popular engagement with the work of artists past and present. Peh is a curator and writer who organized this year’s edition of Art Dubai Digital. She is also a co-founder of NFT Asia, a community for artists which seeks to forge connections between the mainstream and crypto communities: since its beginning in 2021 has grown to more than 4,000 members. Fussner, founder of the multidisciplinary creative studio Tropical Futures Institute, curated the inaugural edition of Art Dubai Digital in 2022."