Inside Artizen: Building a New Creative Economy Talk with Founder René Pinelli

​Artizen.fund is a community-powered platform reshaping how creative and cultural work gets supported. It enables artists, researchers, and builders to present their ideas, activate their communities, and receive funding through collective contributions, matching pools, and time-based campaigns. But beyond funding, Artizen operates as a living ecosystem, bringing people together through residencies, collaborative houses, and global gatherings where ideas are not just supported, but lived, tested, and evolved in real time.

​In this talk, René Pinelli, founder of Artizen, shares the story behind its creation: the vision, the mechanics, and the deeper shift it represents. He will walk through how the platform works, how creators successfully fund their projects, and how Artizen is bridging art, science, and emerging technologies into a new model of coordination.

​The session also opens into the creation of Venus, Artizen’s AI CEO, exploring how AI can be integrated into decentralized systems to support decision-making, funding flows, and the evolution of creative ecosystems.

​A grounded look into a new way of building, funding, and participating in culture.