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Em qui, 14 de dez de 2017 às 09:05, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> escreveu: > Hi Tom, > > Glad it relates -- I will be contacting you next year some time. > > Wishing you well. > > marc > > 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 2NQ > http://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 > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] MoneyLab#4 in London 20 January 2018 > Local Time: 13 December 2017 3:45 PM > UTC Time: 13 December 2017 15:45 > From: t...@theanthillsocial.co.uk > To: netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > > Thanks for sending the Mark. > looks great & right up my street. > Tom > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, at 03:17 PM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: > > *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/* > <https://www.facebook.com/events/122385678449918/> > *Tickets - * > *https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moneylab-art-culture-and-financial-activism-tickets-38950373616* > <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moneylab-art-culture-and-financial-activism-tickets-38950373616> > > > 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* > With *Geert Lovink* from Institute of Network Cultures and *Martin > 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 designer *Andy > Morales Coto*, developer *Kei Kreutler*, researcher *Stephanie Polsky*, > and *The 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 curator *Ruth Catlow, *with panellists including art > 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 *Inte* *Gloerich *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/educator *Emily > Rosamond* and researcher* 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/* > <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 2NQ > http://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 > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > *_______________________________________________* > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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