<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=""><p class="">Program of White Papers on Dissent: A Public Program on the Politics & Poetics of Blockchain</p><p class=""><strong class="">October 22-24, 2021, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)</strong></p><p class="">More information on the program plus background texts can be found here: <a href="https://www.whitepapersondissent.xyz" class="">www.whitepapersondissent.xyz</a></p>
<div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><p class="">White Papers on Dissent is a discursive programme dedicated to the
investigation of blockchain as a tool for radical imagination. Though
panel discussions, artist talks, participatory events, and a podcast it
aims to collectively practice the making of the world otherwise,
thinking through the technology to rehearse new social and political
imaginaries.</p><p class="">White Papers on Dissent moves away from the economic discourse
surrounding blockchain to understand the technology as a social
apparatus. Through panel discussions, participatory events, artist talks
and a podcast, it examines how blockchain can articulate new ways of
organising in a community circumventing hegemonic economic principles
like the accumulation of capital and the focus on productivity. And,
thus, reformulate the notion of value beyond the market. In this way,
the project investigates how the particular characteristics of the
technology can potentially re-address power structures and create
alternative forms of governance adapted to the shared goals and wishes
of a community. Therefore, the discursive project explores technology as
a tool to concoct new <em class="">elsewheres</em> and <em class="">otherwises</em>: new forms of utopia with a biopolitical production adjusted to the characteristics and desires of the post-digital society.</p><p class="">White Papers on Dissent looks into blockchains through two
complementary angles: the politics within the technology and its
aesthetic experimentations. On the one hand, it delves into how the
different uses of the technology develop of new political imaginaries,
forms of subversion and new forms of digital activism. On the other
hand, it explores how artists working with blockchains give rise to new
forms of aesthetic resistance. they become rehearsals of the not-yet
that formulate new meanings of social structures and prepare new spaces
of autonomy.</p></div><p class=""><strong class="">Program</strong></p><p class=""><strong class="">Friday 22nd of October, 2021<br class="">
</strong></p><p class="">14:30-15:00 Introduction to <strong class="">Blockchain for Social Change </strong></p><p class="">Barbara Cueto, curator of the project will introduce White Papers on
Dissent, and talk about the possibilities of reframing blockchain into a
tool for social change</p><p class="">15:00-15:30 Artist Talk <strong class="">ReUnion</strong></p><p class="">Interview with YIN Aiwen, designer and leader of ReUnion Network,
which generates long-term P2P care contracts and relationship-driven
cryptocurrencies, helping people building bottom-up social
organizations.</p><p class="">15:45-16:15 Artist Talk <strong class="">Black Swan</strong></p><p class="">Interview with Black Swan, a Berlin-based collective pursuing
horizontal and decentralised approaches to the traditional art world
templates for art making.</p><p class="">16:30-18:00 Panel Discussion <strong class="">Blockchains & Governance</strong></p><p class="">This panel navigates focusing on how artists and designers are
developing new forms of social organization using blockchain, and how
the technology can orientate their meaning with non-capitalist points of
identification.</p><p class="">Participants: Christopher Kulendran Thomas (RadicalXMarkets), Maksym Rokmaniko (DOMA), Gary Zhexi Zhang</p><p class=""><strong class="">Saturday 23rd of October</strong></p><p class="">13:30-13:45 Talk Welcome Words by Barbara Cueto</p><p class="">13:45-14:15 Interview Recorded <strong class="">Blockchains & Affects </strong></p><p class="">It aims to expose the affective qualities of blockchains, and its
potential affects in the word(s)-making strategies in technologically
mediated communities.</p><p class="">Participants: Daphne Dragona, Shintaro Miyazaki</p><p class="">14:30-16:00 Panel Discussion <strong class="">Blockchains & Commons</strong></p><p class="">This panel explores how blockchains can support the development of a
new of a new generation of self-governed, economically sustainable
commons-oriented communities using blockchain.</p><p class="">Participants: Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures), David Rozas (P2P Models), Saraswathi Subbaraman (Circles UBI)</p><p class="">16:00-16:30 Artist Talk <strong class="">Allie Rutherford</strong></p><p class="">This artist talk will delve into the practice of Allie Rutherford,
about feminist economies and the practice of blockchain in a community
space</p><p class="">16:30-18:00 Panel Discussion <strong class="">Blockchain & Digital Activism</strong></p><p class="">This panel envisages blockchain as a tool to voice dissent.</p><p class="">Participants: Emiliano Treré, Larisa Blazic, Balázs Bodó</p><p class="">10:30-19:00 Hackathon <strong class="">The Assets</strong></p><p class="">A nine hour live-action hackathon about the ontologies of value by
the a Berlin-based collective Black Swan, who pursues horizontal and
decentralised approaches to the traditional art world templates for art
making (Registration Required)</p><p class=""><strong class="">Sunday 24th of October</strong></p><p class="">12:00-14:00 Workshop <strong class="">String Figures</strong></p><p class="">String Figures is a workshop by Ailie Rutherford dedicated to reveal
the inextricable threads that connect us all. Registration Required</p><p class="">14:00-18:00 Game<strong class=""> “On Liquid dependencies: What does a decentralised, caring society look like?”</strong></p><p class="">The collective Liquid Dependencies Theory will lead a game dedicated
to construct a commons-based society grounded on long-term care
relationships.</p><p class=""><strong class="">Registration</strong></p><p class="">Registration is encouraged but not mandatory, unless you would like
to take part in the workshops or participatory events, which need
registration before 8th of October. You could register in as many event
as you would like a day.</p><p class="">Please bring your vaccination certificate or a test no longer that 24 hours.</p><p class="">If you have any questions, write us at: <a href="mailto:hello@whitepapersondissent.xyz" class="">hello@whitepapersondissent.xyz</a></p><p class=""><strong class="">Address</strong></p><p class="">Van Abbemuseum, Stratumsedijk 2, 5611 ND Eindhoven, The Netherlands.</p><p class=""><strong class="">About the curator</strong></p>
<div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><p class="">The curator of White Papers on Dissent is Barbara Cueto. She is
interested in the intersection of activism, new technologies and
contemporary art. She is fascinated with how decentralised technologies
are prompting new social constructions that compose new political and
economic infrastructures, and how artists rehearse these imaginaries in
their practices, giving us a glimpse in a world post-crisis.</p><p class="">She is the digital curator of C/O Berlin and a PhD candidate at the
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
She has convened and curated projects internationally at institutions
like MMOMA Moscow for the 6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art in Russia,
Asian Culture Centre in Gwangju and Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art in Seoul in South Korea, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Bétonsalon in
Paris, Marres in Maastricht, Impakt Festival in Utrecht, and de Appel
arts centre in Amsterdam, all in the Netherlands. And has been resident
at Tokyo Wondersite in Japan, Rupert in Lithuania, and Cité des Arts in
Paris.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>