Audrey Ou is the co-founder and CEO of TRLab, a curated platform that fuses NFT technology with blue-chip fine art. Working with co-founder Xin Li-Cohen, the deputy chairman of Christie's Asia, she has built TRLab into a bridge between the traditional art world and Web3 - partnering with artists like Cai Guo-Qiang, the Calder Foundation, and Vogue. A Princeton History graduate with a Columbia analytics degree, Ou was named to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style list, Apollo's 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific, and Tatler Asia's Gen.T. TRLab has raised $9.2M in funding.
Joanne McNeil is an American writer, editor, and art critic who sits at the curious crossroads of internet culture and contemporary art. Best known for 'Lurking: How a Person Became a User' (2020) - a critical history of the internet told from the perspective of ordinary users - she followed it with her debut novel 'Wrong Way' (2023), a tech-industry satire about precarious gig labor. Formerly editor of Rhizome at the New Museum and founder of The Tomorrow Museum blog, she has written for Frieze, Wired, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. She holds the inaugural Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation Arts Writing Award and has been a fellow at the Logan Nonfiction Program, a resident at Eyebeam, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Her next nonfiction work, 'Too Early for the Future,' is forthcoming from MCD/FSG.