• The Ethics of the Art Market: When Financial Products Shape Content

Sébastien Montabonel (Art Institutions of the 21st Century Foundation, London)

• The Art Museum of the Future – A Dystopia?

Julia Voss (Leuphana University, Lüneburg)

• Artistic Freedom in a Complex Society

Martin Myrone (Tate Britain)

• Museums, Collections, and Trustees: the Public/Private Divide

Nizan Shaked (College of the Arts, California State University)

• Private Contributions to Museums’ Collecting Practices in Brazil:

Interdependency, Convergence, and Conflicts

Ana Letícia Fialho (Office of Cultural Economy, Brazilian Ministry of Culture)

• Museums’ Massive Deaccessions as a New Collecting Practice

Eva Szereda (Independent Scholar, Lausanne)

• Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces: The New Platform Connecting Media Art and

the Art Market

Christl Baur (Ars Electronica, Linz)

• Customize the Collection? How Contemporary Art Commissioning Impacts

on Museum Collections and Gallery Business

Franziska Wilmsen (Loughborough University)

• The Myth of the Art Market: Neoliberalism in the Social Order of

Contemporary Art

Jonathan Harris (Birmingham City University)

• The Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech:

A Case Study in Collecting and Place-Making

Stephanie Dieckvoss (Kingston University, London)

• From Private Collection to Art Canon: The Uli Sigg Collection

Nicola Foster (Southampton Solent University)

• Creating a New Canon for a State Collection: Proposals for the First Moscow

Museum of Contemporary Art

Marina Maximova (Loughborough University)