<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">Hi all, </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font color="#202020" face="Colibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Today at 5pm CET is the second-to-last MoneyLab #8 online event: Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination. I will be moderating, and </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">hope to see many familiar names in the chat! Join at </span></font><font color="#0563c1" face="Colibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><a href="https://aksioma.org/moneylab8" class="">https://aksioma.org/moneylab8</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font color="#202020" face="Colibri" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Best,</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font color="#202020" face="Colibri" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Inte</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><br class=""></span></strong></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">MoneyLab #8</span></strong><b class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><br class=""><strong class="">Minting a Fair Society</strong></span></b><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></strong></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">LIVE STREAMING SERIES</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">11 May – 29 June 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri;" class=""><a href="https://aksioma.org/moneylab8" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://aksioma.org/moneylab8</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">STREAM #7 / <b class="">Monday, 22 June 2020 at 5 pm CET<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination<o:p class=""></o:p></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">With Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Haiven, Martin Zeilinger<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Moderated by Inte Gloerich<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">+ <strong class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; font-weight: normal;" class="">You are kindly invited to share your comments and questions trough the live chat!</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="IT" style="font-family: Colibri;" class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri;" class="">Follow the programme here:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri;" class="">FB event > <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://www.facebook.com/events/527075734629065/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="IT" style="font-family: Colibri;" class="">Telegram > <a href="https://t.me/aksiomaorg" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://t.me/aksiomaorg</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="IT" style="font-family: Colibri;" class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="IT" style="font-family: Colibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-weight: normal;" class="">Organised and produced by:</span></strong><b class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""> </span></b><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2020<br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">For the series:</span></strong><strong class=""> </strong><a href="https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><em class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">Tactics & Practice</span></em></a><br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">In the frame of:</span></strong><strong class=""> </strong><a href="https://kons-platforma.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><em class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">konS</span></em></a> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art<br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">In collaboration with:</span></strong><strong class=""> </strong><a href="https://www.kinosiska.si/en/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture</span></a> and <a href="https://www.kinosiska.si/en/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">Institute of Network Cultures</span></a> / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences<br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">In partnership with:</span></strong><a href="https://rijeka2020.eu/en/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class=""> Rijeka ECoC 2020</span></a> and <a href="https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">Interface Cultures Department</span></a> / Kunstuniversität Linz<br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Media partners:</span></strong> Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio Študent</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""> </strong></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">The project <em class="">konS</em> – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Colibri; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.</span></p></body></html>