Great idea! And none better than Moneylab to host. Hank On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 6:39 AM Geert Lovink <ge...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> *Popular search query: "Making Millions with NFTs!"* > > Empowerment or Trap? Jackpot or pocket money? You be the judge. Time to > auction off our criticality. In a single year, NFTs have gone from > obscurity to superstardom. Are NFTs, DeFi and gamified decentralized apps > the new way for the disenfranchised to (finally) get paid? Or are they the > gateway drug to a life of precarious hussle amidst capitalism's death > spiral? The web3 debate has defined the young millenials/GenZ 'Covid' > generations. What will the NFT lottery bring in this merciless economy? > > We have heard from the experts, we have heard from the grifters, we have > heard from boomer cynics and we've heard from the evangelists. Now we want > to hear from young people struggling in this economy. What is the future > *you* see on the other side of the NFT craze. Is it, finally, a way for > creative people to survive and thrive? Is it a scam or just an immature > futurist prototype? Is it destined for cooptation by the corporate and > financial powers that be? Or is it a platform for new forms of solidarity? > > The *Moneylab* <http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/> network was > initiated by the Amsterdam-based Institute for Network Cultures in 2013 to > bring together thinkers, artists, technologists and activists to explore > the future of money and value in a digital age. Since then, it has > organized 12 conferences all over the world, published three readers and > several pamphlets, hosted an active mailing list and maintained a well-read > blog. The project has been taking a breather since June 2021, after hosting > five fabulous pandemic-era conferences in cyberspace. But we're back, with > a whole different ball game! > > We invite creative responses from people under the age of 30 to the > question "*are NFTs the key to a generation's empowerment, or a > capitalist trap*?" Responses may be sent in the form of a conventional or > experimental essay, including notes, aphorisms and dialogues of max. 2500 > words, if possible packed with links, comments, memes and sound. Or a > video/audio/interactive media composition of up to 15-minutes. We look for > advanced speculative writing, critical theory and first-hand experiences > with monetary experiments. > > *The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2022.* > > Please send your submission to *i...@networkcultures.org > <i...@networkcultures.org>*. The MoneyLab board will assemble a diverse > squad to read/watch the submissions and choose the most interesting, > original and illuminating from among them. The first, second and third > winners will each recieve 250 euro/usd. The successful works, as well as > honourable mentions, will be published on the MoneyLab blog and related > media outlets. Authors will be invited to display, read and comment on > their work at a special online meeting of the MoneyLab community. > > Those who would like to discuss their ideas and get feedback ahead of the > deadline are warmly invited to *join the Moneylab Discord server*, where > a special channel (https://discord.gg/AXGJtqqX3V) has been established. > There will also be a *facilitated brainstorming and feedback session* on > Zoom on February 9 and 8pm CET (5pm Eastern). In both the Discord channel > and the Zoom session experts and members of the selection committee will be > on-hand to offer *supportive and constructive feedback*. > > For the MoneyLab board: Max Haiven, Ela Kagel and Geert Lovink > https://www.networkcultures.org/moneylab > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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