Enric Duran: Economic Disobedience

By patricia, December 17, 2015

By Felix Clasbrummel Being known as the ‘Robin Hood of banks’ and being searched for by the Spanish government for taking out funds of Spanish banks worth more than €500.000, which, allegedly, he donated to grassroots movements, he could not attend the conference in person. “I Will be online […]” Enric Duran tweeted three days [...]

Panel and Audience Discussion: Tactics for Economic Dissent

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 16, 2015

Panel and Audience discussion: Artistic Interventions in Finance

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 16, 2015

Femke Herregraven: The Privilege of Disappearing

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Anissa Jousset & Anastasia Kubrak Femke Herregraven’s work draws its inspiration from the domains of geopolitics and global finance. During her time as an artist in residence in the Amsterdam financial district, she discovered that her neighbors were mainly ghost mailbox companies, registered in Netherlands as a part of tax evasion mechanism. Carrying abstract [...]

Tactics for Economies Dissent Panel Introduction by Brett Scott

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Michaela Lakova Brett Scott is the moderator of this panel on ‘Tactics for Economies of Dissent’. He starts by introducing himself and the participants of the panel. Scott’s field of research and writing incorporates financial reform and financial activism, which look at different attempts to change the current financial system. On one hand he [...]

Venture Communism – Baruch Gottlieb and Dmitry Kleiner

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Delaney Clark Dmitry Kleiner and Baruch Gottlieb from the Telekommunisten art group based in Berlin joined us Friday afternoon  for the Tactics for Economic Dissent session. Through critiques of communication systems, the group’s art practices develops alternative platforms and programs to subvert centralized and hierarchical structures of society. One of the first slides from [...]

Rachel O’Dwyer: Storing Value

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Katía Truijen Rachel O’Dwyer writes about the political economy of communications, the digital commons and new media cultures. Her research areas include mobile communications and radio spectrum, open networks and alternative currencies. In her presentation at MoneyLab, she raised the question what kind of sociality we are engineering into our alternative monetary systems. Money [...]

Eduard de Jong: A short history of the Blockchain

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Katía Truijen MoneyLab #2 kicked off with a critical discussion about the blockchain. The session with presentations by Primavera de Filippi, David Golumbia and Bruce Pon was introduced by computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur Eduard de Jong. To create a common ground of knowledge about the blockchain, de Jong explained the audience about the [...]

Panel discussion Bringing the Dark Side of Money to Light

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Katía Truijen Beyond the Financial Sublime: panel discussion with Cecile Landman, Paolo Cirio, Femke Herregraven and Paul Radu  The sixth session of MoneyLab #2 focused on bringing the dark side of money to light. How can we read and expose the abstract world of finance and its often invisible infrastructures, regulations, corruption and materials? [...]

Bruce Pon: Ascribe – An Ownership Layer for the Internet

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 15, 2015

By Joana Chicau Bruce Pon presented Ascribe, a project that proposes a solution for artists to control intellectual property by constituting a new “ownership layer“ to the existing structure of the internet. “Intellectual property is at this moment as valuable as any other physical property in the world. Why isn’t valued and protected as much [...]