<synthesis> MoneyLab #8 (5pm CET today) Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination

[Inte Gloerich]

Hi all, 

Today at 5pm CET is the second-to-last MoneyLab #8 online event: Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination. I will be moderating, and hope to see many familiar names in the chat! Join at https://aksioma.org/moneylab8 <https://aksioma.org/moneylab8>.

Best,
Inte



MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society
LIVE STREAMING SERIES
11 May – 29 June 2020
https://aksioma.org/moneylab8 <https://aksioma.org/moneylab8>
 
STREAM #7 / Monday, 22 June 2020 at 5 pm CET
Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination
With Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Haiven, Martin Zeilinger
Moderated by Inte Gloerich
+ You are kindly invited to share your comments and questions trough the live chat!
 
Like many technologies, the radical potential of blockchains and cryptocurrencies to revolutionise the way we work, trade, cooperate and exchange has narrowed as major banks, corporations, and other powerful interests claim this potential for themselves. What has happened to those alternative futures lost along the way? What about the paths not taken in the development of this technology? Or was it fated to be this way? Was this technology cursed from the beginning? This panel seeks to explore the ghosts and spectres of alternative possibilities, of the radical imagination, that haunt today’s landscape of blockchain experiments. In an era when blockchains are being used for the purpose of increasing corporate power, of consolidating inequality, or for new forms of surveillance and exploitation, are other blockchain futures possible?
 
The panellists will seek to recover the political economies of the hacker-engineers, whose stories start with an affiliation to “decentralisation” that emerged out of experiences in pre-Bitcoin cypherpunk, hacker and peer-to-peer network cultures as well as consider money’s long history of “epic failures”, in which schemers, dreamers and tricksters have tried, and failed, to steal monetary fire from the economic Gods. Together they will question the task for a truly revolutionary money that would not only bring about a redistribution of wealth, but also a reimagination of value. Among the propositions, we’ll hear about exploring how blockchain tech could be used not for “fixing” property-based value systems, but for refusing such systems entirely. Instead of financialising creative practice and further commodifying aesthetic artefacts, can “crypto” resist property as such? How might an unownable digital artefact function on the blockchain?
 
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Organised and produced by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020
For the series: Tactics & Practice <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/>
In the frame of: konS <https://kons-platforma.org/> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with: Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> and Institute of Network Cultures <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: Rijeka ECoC 2020 <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/> and Interface Cultures Department <https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio Študent
 
The project konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. 
The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.
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