<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="https://ag-medienphilosophie.de/annual-workshop-2023/">https://ag-medienphilosophie.de/annual-workshop-2023/</a><div><br></div><div><div id="page" class="site">Digital Biedermeier or Radical Democratic Utopia?</div><div id="page" class="site">NFTs as Interfaces of Cryptocurrencies</div><div id="page" class="site">October 5, 2023 in Berlin / Hamburg / Zoom<div id="content" class="site-content"><div id="primary" class="content-area"><main id="main" class="site-main"><article id="post-1182" class="post-1182 page type-page status-publish hentry entry"><div class="entry-content"><p><strong>Venue Berlin</strong><br>Cluster of Excellence<br>Matters of Activity. Image Space Material<br>Humboldt-University Berlin<br>Sophienstrasse 22a<br>10178 Berlin</p><p><strong>Venue Hamburg</strong><br>HAW Hamburg, Department Design<br>Armgartstr. 24, AULA (A 218)<br>22087 Hamburg</p><p class="has-text-align-left">Organizers: Prof. Mirjam Schaub (HAW Hamburg), Prof. Markus Rautzenberg (Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen), Dr. Johannes Bennke (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Sebastian R. Richter, M.A. (University of Regensburg)</p><p class="has-text-align-left">The end of the concept of the auratic original and everything connected with it („magical“ thinking, cult of relics, cult of genius, authorship as individual self-empowerment, etc.) already takes place in terms of media technology with the printing of books and the possibility of potentially infinite reproduction. This is then further increased and cemented with photography and the computer. Today, 1:1 reproducibility in the computer makes the concept of the „original“ ontologically meaningless. What happens now when, through blockchain technology and the NFTs based on it, this media-technical a priori of lossless reproducibility is forced back into its opposite, namely singular originality, with an enormous expenditure of energy? Is it a matter of a rollback that resists the inherent logic of digital media in order to restore the stamp of the original in the service of mercantile usability as „in the good old days“? Or, in the course of a calculatedly playful entry into cryptocurrencies as the quintessence of platform capitalism, is it a matter of digital signability, emblem effect, and bragging-values? What are we to make of the utopia of radically democratic decision-making beyond human fallibility when, with the help of artificial intelligence, NFTs are used as share certificates and voting tokens in so-called ‚DAOs‘, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations? Is the radicalization of ownership of what is actually unownable not also an expression of a potlatch that links social recognition to extreme forms of contempt such as waste (of computer capacities and thus of resources)?</p><p>All events will take place in Berlin, except for the panel discussion at 5 p.m. and the NFT performance at 7 p.m., which will take place in Hamburg and will be live streamed.</p><p>To receive a Zoom-Link and a reader for the workshop, please send an email to: <br><a>AWS2023@ag-medienphilosophie.de</a></p><h4 class="wp-block-heading">Schedule</h4><pre class="wp-block-preformatted">10.00 - 10.30
<strong>Welcoming Remarks & Introduction</strong>
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Schaub,
HAW Hamburg, Dept. Design (Hamburg)
Prof. Dr. Markus Rautzenberg,
Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
Dr. Johannes Bennke, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sebastian R. Richter, M.A., University of Regensburg
10.30 - 11.30
<strong>Aesthetics in the Age of Decentralised Trust</strong>
Dr. Laura Lotti, Penny Rafferty
Moderator: Dr. Johannes Bennke
11.30 - 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 - 12.45
<strong>How to Make Art in the Age of Algorithms</strong>
Jonas Lund
<strong>Fractionalized art – how digital art works can perform as
an entity in a diversified society</strong>
Victoria Hilsberg
Moderator: Prof. Mirjam Schaub (Hamburg)
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.00
<strong>How I Learned to Love the Market</strong>
Sarah Friend
<strong>Monetary Policy and Blockchain Art</strong>
Paul Seidler
Moderator: Dr. Johannes Bennke
15.00 - 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15 - 16.15
<strong>Towards an Affordance Theory of Blockchain-Enabled Digital
Culture</strong>
Dr. Martin Zeilinger
<strong>An „exciting and terrifying" Future - How the Web3 could reshape
Emergency Services</strong>
Dr. Laura Niebling
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Markus Rautzenberg
16.15 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.00
<strong>Reading the Reader. Group Discussion</strong>
All Participants (Berlin, Hamburg, Zoom)
17.00 - 18.00
<strong>Opening Pandoras Box of Crypto Economics: What about
Scams, Drugs, Weapon Deals and Heat Death?</strong>
Panel: Prof. Dr. Martin Doll, Anika Meier (Hamburg)
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Mirjam Schaub (Hamburg)
18.00 - 18.30
<strong>Wrap-Up</strong>
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Schaub, Prof. Dr. Markus Rautzenberg, Dr.
Johannes Bennke, Sebastian R. Richter (Berlin, Hamburg, Zoom)
19.00
<strong>White Tank Flag</strong>
NFT-Performance with students from the Department of Design
(HAW Hamburg), invited artists and a true fake tank in white </pre></div></article></main></div></div></div></div></body></html>