<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hackaton The Assets - Workshop - Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven (NL), 23 Oct 2021 - 10:30-19:00</div><div class=""><div id="page#1" class="uk-section uk-section-default uk-padding-remove-bottom"><div class="uk-container uk-container-xsmall"><div class="uk-grid uk-margin-remove-bottom uk-child-width-1-1 uk-margin tm-grid-expand uk-grid-stack uk-margin-remove-top" uk-grid=""><div id="page#1-1-0" class="uk-first-column"><div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><br class=""></div><div class="uk-margin uk-panel">A Workshop with Black Swan, a
Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralised appraoches
to the traditional ar wrold templates for art making.</div><div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><br class=""></div><div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><a href="https://www.whitepapersondissent.xyz/workshop/hackaton-the-assets" class="">https://www.whitepapersondissent.xyz/workshop/hackaton-the-assets</a></div></div></div><div class="uk-grid-margin uk-child-width-1-1 uk-grid uk-grid-stack tm-grid-expand" uk-grid=""><div class="uk-first-column"><div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><p class=""><em class="">- What is the value, or values, of art? And how is that value constructed by different ontologies of art?</em></p><p class=""><em class="">- Can we compare the forms of value generated by different ontologies of art, if so how?</em></p><p class=""><em class="">- How do different processes and practices construct different
forms of value within Art? what are the material, technical, aesthetic,
knowledge-based conditions that constitute Art's values in different
milieus?</em></p><p class=""><em class="">- What makes something sustainable and socially relevant?</em></p><p class=""><em class="">- Can new systems of collective working methods equate to a sustainable economic model through the lens of Art?</em></p><p class="">Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and
decentralized approaches to the traditional art world templates for art
making. For White Papers on Dissent, they will develop a nine hour
hackathon at Van Abbemuseum during Dutch Design Week. The Assets invites
up to 40 local cultural workers and organisations in groups of 2 to 4
people to a role-playing activity reflecting on the forms of artistic
value created by their work. The hackathon aims to facilitate dialogue
about the ontologies of art present in existing practices. The learnings
will later inform the development of Black Swan DAO, an open-source
tool-kit for artistic collectives.</p><p class="">This hackathon continues the investigation of White Papers on Dissent
about the understanding of value as a non-capitalocentric notion, and
the potential of using digital technologies such as blockchain to
channel these values into alternative governance mechanisms. In this
way, Black Swan helps unravel threads of thinking about value otherwise,
as a fluid, diverse and community-oriented practice. To unlearn this
concept, the hackathon delves into how creativity and innovation
generate new models that foster diverse forms of value and its
repercussions transforming social organisations. As a result, this
projects expands and continues the research of White Papers on Dissent
about the social uses of blockchains, and how this technology can
support social structures grounded in alternative configurations of
value.</p></div>
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Swan warmly invites 2-4 kin, peers or representatives of arts,
academic, or scientific organisations to participate in a hackathon to
explore different forms of value in the arts. We ask each group to bring
a few valuable artefacts to your organisation. They could be objects,
projects, digital things, exhibitions, knowledge, research outputs. This
could be something that your org has developed internally or something
from the world that it considers valuable. Please reply to this email
with an image of something your organisation finds valuable to confirm
your place at the hackathon.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="uk-section uk-section-default uk-section-small"><div class="uk-container uk-container-xsmall"><div class="uk-grid-margin uk-child-width-1-1 uk-grid uk-grid-stack tm-grid-expand" uk-grid=""><div class="uk-first-column"><div class="uk-margin-remove-vertical uk-panel"><p class="">The event takes places at the Van Abbemuseum, 10:30-7pm on 23rd
October 2021. The hackathon will be followed by a dinner for all
participants.</p></div>
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<h5 class=""> Biography </h5><div class="uk-margin uk-panel"><p class="">Established
in 2018, Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal
and decentralized approaches to the traditional art world templates for
art making. Through peer support, artist-led funding and community
organizing, they place resources into the hands of the users rather than
the gatekeepers of the arts.</p><p class="">Black Swan is developing digital toolkits for artists through a
methodology that puts play at the center. Existing communities of
creative practitioners are invited to test and experiment with forms of
interaction, modes of organization, and sustainable economic models in
role-playing events, working groups, and hackathons. Through play, Black
Swan is building an open-source and interoperable protocol for artistic
communes, which will enable collaborative institutional forms and allow
for a redefinition of what art can be. Launching in 2022, the Black
Swan DAO aims to become a translocal and mutable source for distributing
resources and value differently across interdependent art worlds.</p><p class=""><a href="https://lightartspace.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">Light Art Space</a>
partners with the Black Swan DAO initiative as a platform that engages
the arts and its community. The partnership will enable the development
of digital toolkits through an app that would put forth new ways of
working together.</p><p class="">Black Swan is currently maintained by Laura Lotti, Penny Rafferty, Calum Bowden, and Leïth Benkhedda.</p><p class="">Black Swan has previously worked with or presented at: MoneyLab
Berlin, The Serpentine Galleries, Goethe-Institut London, Furtherfield
Gallery, AND Festival 2021, 221A, Trust Berlin, Berlin Art Week and KW
Institute for Contemporary Art.</p><p class=""><a href="https://trust.support/feed/black-swan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">https://trust.support/feed/black-swan</a></p></div>
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