Miami Digital Art Fair

Miami Art Week is digital art's most concentrated global stage, and for its inaugural fair, Blackdove built a program around the theme "Rise of the Machines" — generative and AI-driven art at the moment the medium's mainstream conversation caught fire.

Co-hosts Marc Billings and Raina Marie led the vision and curation; exhibiting partners paid to participate, including MakersPlace, which presented work by Yoshi Sodeoka, Ivona Tau, and Rob Dixon, alongside a broader roster spanning teamLab, John Gerrard, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Garret Kane, Oona, and others. An inaugural fair has no playbook, no institutional memory, and a hundred moving parts. My job was to make sure all of them moved.

The Work:
I served as the fair's operational backbone across three fronts:

Operations : day-to-day production management for a multi-exhibitor, day-to-night event: exhibitor coordination, scheduling, logistics, and the unglamorous connective tissue that determines whether an ambitious program lands or unravels.

Speaker programming : booked and scheduled the full slate of talks running throughout the fair, coordinating industry leaders across the day's panel program on art and technology, managing every behind-the-scenes detail from confirmation to stage time.

Marketing : created all marketing assets for the event and ran its Social Media accounts across X & Instagram solo, posting daily through the fair cycle with artist and speaker spotlights that carried the program's story to the digital art community in real time.

Artist shown: Yoshi Sodeoka, Curated by Jessica Marinaro

Results:
The inaugural fair delivered its full program of an exhibition, paid exhibitor partnerships, and a complete day-long talks series in the most competitive week on the art calendar. The clearest verdict came from co-host and curator Raina Marie: without my role, the event "would have fallen apart."

It's all for the love of ART.