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Victor Andrés Renza Avellaneda

PhD Candidate - Department of Communication and Culture

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Biography

Victor Renza is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication and Culture at BI Norwegian Business School and a researcher at the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society in Oslo, Norway. His work focuses on exploring the intersection of the arts and technology and its impact on organizational contexts, society, business, and individuals. His research interests lie primarily in areas related to organizational sociology and the sociology of technology, including the formation and organization of online communities as social movements, the interaction between individuals and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), metaverses, and blockchain and the co-creation of value under the development of the Web3 as a new paradigm for the internet.

Publications

Alacovska, Ana; Fieseler, Christian & Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza (2025)

Speculative labour: The financialized imagination of creative work and the assetization of digital art through non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251317693

Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza; Andersen, Kirsti Reitan, Fieseler, Christian, McDermott, Fiona & McGannon, Róisin (2024)

The Arts Mobilizing Communities: From Socially Engaged Arts to Social Artrepreneurship

, s. 55- 78.

Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza (2022)

AI Generated Art; The Apple of Discord in the Era of the Creative Robots

, s. 32- 39.

Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza & Bucher, Eliane (2024)

“It just took off organically and everyone came running to support”: How a community of cryptoartists improvises for real-life social impact

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Avellaneda, Victor Andrés Renza (2023)

Artistic Tinkering and Creative Modes of Approaching Opaque Artificial Intelligence

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Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2019 Norwegian University of Life Sciences - NMBU Master of Science