<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From: <a href="mailto:erik.bordeleau@gmail.com" class="">erik.bordeleau@gmail.com</a><br id="docs-internal-guid-1896ff74-7fff-9ff7-bd87-7053b5827305" class=""><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Reimagining Art & Value Flows: </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Sphere as Digital Commons</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">When:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> Nov. 3rd to 5th 2020</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Where: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Stockholm (different venues)</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Why: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This 3 days initial working session will kickstart The Sphere multi-dimensional R&D process around art & value flows and contributive accounting. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Objectives:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">• Situating The Sphere within the P2P and commons-oriented R&D community </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">• Mapping & generating an operative conceptual framework to be shared across all participants to the project</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Event problematization in the form of a proto-manifesto:</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">An idea always exists as engaged in a matter – that is, as ‘mattering’. A problem is always a practical problem, never a universal problem mattering for everybody. </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Learning is always local.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Isabelle Stengers</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The economy as we know it needs a full reset. Everyone knows about it, but no one seems to know how to proceed. We need to un-do business as usual. We need to undo the economic forms that hold us captive and mesmerized. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We need to make our economy weird again</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We, the Sphere platform shapers, feel the need to propose an alternative organising system that distributes power differently between actors and stakeholders of the artworld; a system that incentivises artistic inventiveness, rather than stifling it. A new </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: line-through; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">business</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> network model for circus and the performing arts. </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">One thing is clear: the time for merely complaining about one’s precarity is over. With the advent of blockchain technology, the economy has become a design question. </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">THIS IS THE AGE OF MONETARY EXPERIMENTATION. </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The financial class doesn’t have the monopoly on risk-taking practices or the craft of its instruments. With the Sphere, we want to create a space where the circulation and experience of value is felt differently. A space that allows us to use our capacities to take risks and enter into metastable collective compositions, beyond what is considered “possible” – or insurable. </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">How do we transform the traditional modes of value capture and re-open them for the benefit of the community? How do we transform economic loops into social and artistic flows - and back? </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We are always already at stake with each other, partnered all the way down, entre-preneurs and entre-donneurs – inter-holders and inter-givers – networked together to collectively distribute the risks and opportunities of living and making art. </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Schedule</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">:</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">TUESDAY: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Experiments in Commons-oriented Economies</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">9h30- 10h45: Geert Lovink </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">10h45-11h: Break</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">11h - 12h15: Ela Kagel </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">12h15-13h30: Lunch</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">13h30-14h30: Performance</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">14h30-15h30: Sara and Olle: Why the Sphere + Q&A</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">15h45-16h30: Cem on the Sphere as Web 3.0 Infrastructure + Q&A</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">WEDNESDAY: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Relations & Shares</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">9h30-10h:30 Laura Lotti on the logic of Staking + </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">10h30-11h: Erik Bordeleau on Commons & Derivative Sociality</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">12h15-13h15: Lunch</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">13h15-14h: Sphere @ SSE (with Emma) </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">14h15-15h: Jay Gilligan (performance) </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">15h-16h30 Joel’s magic online + workshop </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">THURSDAY: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dreaming as organizing</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">9h30-10h45: Yael Sherill on organization in the performing arts</span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">11h- 12h15: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux: Schwung Magic and organizational arts</span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">12h15-13h30: Lunch </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">13h30-15h30: Cem Dagdelen: Versions of the Sphere as cyber-physical infrastructure </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">(Speculative Design workshop) </span></div><br class=""><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">15h- 16h30 Collective communication strategy + wrap up session </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">About the Sphere:</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Inspired by the recent innovations in the field of distributed ledger technologies (blockchain) and P2P contributive economies, The Sphere is a radically innovative P2P community platform for self-organization and sustainable cooperation in the performing arts. Many among us have struggled with the bureaucratic inefficiencies and growing administrative costs incurred while trying to make art. The Sphere addresses this problem by allowing for different actors of the performing arts ecosystem - artists, cultural professionals, audience, cultural organisations and a wide range of sympathisers and other stakeholders - to initiate creative collaborations and implement new funding strategies. </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>