Eight years of building for art and culture.
Next Decentrum builds extraordinary products, brands, and technology for art and culture. We are based in Vancouver.
Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut, Ancient Egyptian, about 1069 to 945 BCE. Public domain (CC0).
The story
We started by teaching emerging tech and the tools reshaping how people create and connect.
Then we started building. Momentable brings the works of the world’s greatest artists to you. Chosen Pharaohs became a transmedia mythology universe. We built tools for people who think for themselves.
Every project begins with a question: does this deserve to exist? If the answer is yes, we bring strategy, design, technology and taste to the table, and we invest our thinking, our craft and our conviction in it.
2018 to 2026
- 2018
We start by teaching
Emerging technology, and the tools reshaping how people create and connect.
Since 2018 we have run programs in technology and transformation for a national government, a global professional-services firm and a national accounting body.
- 2019 to 2022
Talking about art and technology in public
Our co-founder Hussein Hallak speaks on why blockchain matters to the art world at Richmond Art Gallery, on idea validation at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and on School for Startups Radio.
- 2023
Keynote at the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
“Navigating The Age of Exponential Digital Transformation,” followed by a second session at the same meeting.
- 2026
Momentable on every screen
Momentable Art is on the App Store. Momentable Guides cover 55 museums, 1,085 artists and 7 movements, as of 21 Oct 2026.
One of the largest natural history museums in the world has been through our Museum Technology Transformation Program. What we do for museums
What we build
Momentable
Brings the works of the world’s greatest artists to you, matched to how you feel and organized in collections you can keep, share, and replay.
Chosen Pharaohs
Ancient gods. Modern mythology. A universe of legends waiting to be told.
And more from the studio
Calligraphic Art Store, Elysian Depths, Tutankhamun and The Dark Art of Life Mastery.
The founders
“Both founders are engineers. Museums have been part of our lives for 35 years. We build what we advise.”
Culture is the foundation.Intelligence is the method.Care is the standard.
We are writers, engineers, developers, poets, product builders, entrepreneurs, designers, and strategists. We bring all of who we are to every project we touch.