Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future

Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future

Inte Gloerich in conversation with Erik Bordeleau, Ruth Catlow, Aude Launay, Yazan Khalili, Penny Rafferty, and Stacco Troncoso

Precarity and budget cuts plague arts and culture while they are still recovering from the damages of the pandemic. Meanwhile, extreme right wing politics spreads across the world and increases censorship and repression on artists and cultural practitioners. How can creatives come together and build solidarity and collective power against these threats?

This book contains conversations with artists and activists that engage critically with the socioeconomic setup of their sector. They activate communities and collectively build tools and infrastructures to prefigure different futures. Sharing their views on the potentials and pitfalls of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations—an emerging technology many of them use—the interviewees invite readers into the important and exciting space of artistic-activist reflection on, critique of, engagement with, and (re)imagination of these (and other) complex technologies.

Cover design: Inte Gloerich
Design interior: Inte Gloerich (using the Etherport publication tool (www.etherport.org) and based on a design template by Paul Bille and Lukas Engelhardt).

Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2025

ISBN: 9789083412580

Contact: Institute of Network Cultures
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)
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