<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=""><header class="article-header"><h1 class="entry-title single-title" itemprop="headline"><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Exhibition: PROOF OF STAKE-Technological Claims</span></font></h1><h1 class="entry-title single-title" itemprop="headline"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">4.9-14.11 2021, Kunstverein Hamburg (Germany)</span></h1></header><section class="entry-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea">
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<div class="column"><p class="">With: ROBERT ALICE, MEL CHIN, JOSHUA CITARELLA, SIMON DENNY, FANG DI,
STEPHANIE DINKINS, DISNOVATION, SARAH FRIEND, ISA GENZKEN, HOLLY
HERNDON/MAT DRYHURST, FEMKE HERREGRAVEN, MIKE KELLEY, JOSH KLINE, PAUL
KOLLING, AGNIESZKA KURANT, JAMES LUNA, KARAMIA MÜLLER, NEW RED ORDER
(NRO-ADAM KHALIL, ZACK KHALIL, AND JACKSON POLYS), YURI PATTISON, TIMUR
SI-QIN, JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH, KRISTA BELLE STEWART, PAUL THEK,
PRATEEK VJIAN, LUKE WILLIS THOMPSON & BEECOIN. A cooperation project
between THE HIVEEYES PROJECT (CLEMENS GRUBER, KARSTEN HARAZIM), NASCENT
(MAX HAMPSHIRE, PAUL SEIDLER), MOABEES (BÄRBEL ROTHAAR, ELISA DIERSON,
KATJA MARIE VOIGT) and KUNSTREPUBLIK (HARRY SACHS, MATTHIAS EINHOFF,
PHILIP HORST)</p>
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<div class="column"><p class="">We are very pleased to inform you about Proof of Stake –
Technological Claims, a group exhibition, symposium, educational project
and publication initiated by the Kunstverein in Hamburg and artist
Simon Denny.</p><p class="">The exhibition will reflect on themes of technology, and ownership,
which have also been central to a related seminar series and forthcoming
pair of publications. The exhibition is named after an ownership-based
blockchain protocol which has increase in visibility after competing
systems were criticized for incentivizing high energy consumption. Proof
of Stake questions how the framing of processes or objects as
‘technological’ performs cultural work – from blockchain protocols to
museum reification practices. It will foreground the question of who
gets to claim the technical, which is often accompanied with a
legitimacy or naturalization of what could otherwise read as political
processes. In dialogue with some of the region’s most important
institutions like the MARKK (Museum am Rothenbaum), Denny and
collaborators such as artist Timur Si-Qin and scholars of media and
organization Timon Beyes and Claus Pias (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
and Robin Holt (Copenhagen Business School) will unpack who and what
plays a role in technology’s legitimation processes and how they
interact with ownership and power.</p><p class="">In cooperation with Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University
Lüneburg, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt and
University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK).</p><p class="">Curated by Bettina Steinbrügge and Simon Denny.</p>
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<div class="column"><p class="">3.9.2021, 19 Uhr<br class="">
Eröffnung / Opening Redner:innen: Christoph Seibt, Timm Weber, Bettina Steinbrügge</p><p class="">4.9.2021, 13 Uhr Kurator:innenführung und Künstler:innengespräch mit / Curator’s Guided Tour and<br class="">
Artist Talk with Bettina Steinbrügge, Simon Denny, u.a. / a.o.</p><p class="">4.9.2021, 14 Uhr<br class="">
SYMPOSIUM: PROOF OF STAKE</p><p class="">14 Uhr: Einleitung / Introduction Robin Holt (Copenhagen Business
School), Timon Beyes, Claus Pias (Leuphana University Lüneburg)</p><p class="">14.15 Uhr: Artist Panel</p><p class="">15 Uhr: Geert Lovink (Institute<br class="">
of Network Cultures, Amsterdam)</p><p class="">15.30 Uhr: Ute Holl (University of Basel)</p><p class="">16 Uhr: Bettina Vismann (Architect, Berlin)</p><p class="">16.30 Uhr: Nishant Shah (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)</p><p class="">17 Uhr: Clare Birchall, (King’s College London)</p><p class="">17.30 Uhr: Buch Präsentation / Book launch Media Organize. A
Companion to Technological Objects Mit Student:innen der / With Students
from HFBK Hamburg & Leuphana Universität Lüneburg</p><p class="">KUNSTVEREIN IN HAMBURG</p>
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<div class="column"><p class="">KLOSTERWALL 23 20095 HAMBURG</p><p class="">T +49 40 322157</p><p class=""><a href="mailto:HAMBURG@KUNSTVEREIN.DE" class="">HAMBURG@KUNSTVEREIN.DE</a></p><p class=""><a href="http://www.kunstverein.de" class="">WWW.KUNSTVEREIN.DE</a></p>
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<div class="column"><p class="">TUESDAY—SUNDAY 12—18 hours</p><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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