MoneyLab: Art, Culture and Financial Activism
Saturday 20 January 2018
10.00-18.00
Somerset House
London
Full day £15.00/ £12.00 conc
More info - http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/events/moneylab-4
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/122385678449918/
Tickets -
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A day-long programme of workshops, discussions and artistic experimentation
exploring the relationship between financial technologies, artistic practice
and contemporary culture.
MoneyLab is a programme of critical research and artistic intervention that
explores the connections between contemporary art, financial activism and
digital culture.
Previously organised by the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures, this
fourth edition of MoneyLab brings together researchers, artists, designers, and
cultural entrepreneurs thinking beyond money.
Join panels, talks and workshops which inspect the borderlands between critical
art-making, decentralised financial technologies, collective organisation, and
civil disobedience.
SCHEDULE
10:00
INTRODUCTION
WithGeert Lovinkfrom Institute of Network Cultures andMartin Zeilinger from
Anglia Ruskin University.
10:30
WORKSHOPS
Offshore Investigation Vehicle with The Demystification Committee
Half of the existing global wealth has been calculated to be located offshore,
stacked in tax havens. But where is offshore? What does it mean to ‘go’ or
‘become’ offshore? Can we visit it? The Demystification Committee have
infiltrated a number of tax havens and set up an international corporate
structure to investigate offshore finance. At the head of this corporate
structure is Empire Management Limited, a UK Private Limited Company that
invites members of the public to become investors in their self-initiated
offshore tax evasion scheme. Join in and explore the tactics Empire Management
use to abuse its financial position offshore and find out about the murky world
of offshore investment practices.
Total Liquidity Now: Trading in the augmented landscape of Patternist
PATTERNIST is a location-based, augmented reality demo game for urban research,
sci-fi visions, and alternative economies. It speculates on the appearance of
an alien planet hovering above our own, whose augmented terrain becomes visible
through the lens of a mobile and desktop game.
As part of this workshop participants are invited to develop the game’s trading
mechanisms through role play and participatory exercises. Facilitating and
experimenting with a multi-directional, barter-based trading system, the group
will explore the alien geography of the PATTERNIST-3 planet. The workshop will
close with a discussion on designing incentives in alternative economies,
autonomous currencies, and market-based decision making.
12:00
DISCUSSION
Playing to Lose: Gameplay in Art and Finance
Artists are increasingly adopting game design as a methodology to interrogate
and subvert complex financial and political systems. From simulations of
fictional companies to live action role play games, a diverse range of situated
methods are emerging to expose social and political infrastructures. This
discussion will explore to what effects gamification and digital simulation are
useful for organising socio-political activism. Is responsible,
community-oriented life in contemporary society a ‘skill’ that can be learned
in a game-like environment? If the performance of financial investments can be
simulated, can we also simulate the disruption of capitalist systems? How can
such simulation become reality?
Chaired by journalist and campaigner Brett Scott with games designerAndy
Morales Coto, developerKei Kreutler, researcherStephanie Polsky, andThe
Demystification Committee.
13:30
BREAK
14:15
WORKSHOPS
Earth’s Cooperative for Economic Fairness with FairCoop
FairCoop will present the world’s first democratically organised and
eco-friendly crypto-currency, FairCoin. The latest FairCoin uses a co-operative
model for distributing crypto-currencies and aims to create a digital currency
for a new global economic system. Workshop participants will learn about the
development of FairCoin, from the technical elements to the political and
social motivations of creating an energy saving and cooperative blockchain.
Find out how to setup a FairCoop in your region and how you could join a
decentralized network to reduce economic inequality and create a global wealth
of abundance for the commons.
Data Workers Union with [Institute of Human
Obsolescence](http://speculative.capital/)
In order to shift the imbalance between citizens,surveillance capitalism, and
the big data industry, it should be understand that we are not merely users of
free online services, but the unpaid workers of tech companies.The Institute of
Human Obsolescence (IoHO) advocates for recognising the production of data as a
form of labour.Through gatherings, assemblies and collective actions the union
aims to establish a collective political discourse in pursuit of our data
labour rights. This workshop will explore some of the issues that arise from
organising a labour union for digital users and demonstrate the possibilities
for monetizing online activity.
15:45
DISCUSSION
Art and Equity? Tokenizing Culture with the Blockchain
Artists are playing a central role in shaping our understanding of emerging
blockchain technologies, and continue to propose exciting visions for how
decentralized computation could challenge current social and political power
structures. Already, there are a few experimental blockchain projects that
question our core assumptions about ownership, authorship, reproducibility, and
authenticity. This panel introduces artistic perspectives on distributed ledger
technologies, and brings them into critical dialogue with the emerging
blockchain economies. From platform distribution models and new types of
digital art markets to hyper-real click-mine farms and self-owning artworks,
what can we learn about emerging blockchain technologies from critical artistic
practice?
Chaired by artist and curatorRuth Catlow, with panellists includingart advisor
and art historian Jérôme Croisier, researcher and curator Rachel O'Dwyer and
artist/software engineer Sarah Friend.
17:15
DISCUSSION
2nd MoneyLab Reader Book Launch with [The Institute of Network
Cultures](http://networkcultures.org/)
Concluding the day, this session introduced by InteGloerich platforms
contributors to this latest publication from the Institute of Network Cultures
in Amsterdam and features a collection of essays from artists, academics and
activists critically exploring art, finance and technology. This second edition
expands on a global network committed to exploring the political and social
territories created since the financial crash was inscribed onto the first
bitcoin block in 2009. Essays range from the financialization of art, love as a
binary proposition on the blockchain, the cashless society, the history of your
financial dashboard, and the digital financial surveillance of the poor. Join
us to celebrate the launch of the book and listen to a handful of readings from
some of the many contributors including Geert Lovink,
artist/writer/educatorEmily Rosamondandresearcher Nathaniel Tkacz.
In addition to all the above, there will be works by some of the artist
participants on show throughout the day.
For more information and details from previous events please visit
http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner
Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
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