Moneylab#3: Failing Better
1–2 December 2016, Amsterdam
A two-day symposium accompanied by a series of workshops from art collectives, designers and activists featuring investigations into artist contracts, experiments in digital publishing, artist revenue platforms, p-2-p co-operatives, and experiments in universal basic income.
Universal Basic Income,Feminist Economics Department, University of the Phoenix, De-centralized democracy, Smart contracts, DAOs, Publishing, P2P distribution, Digital licenses, Music revenue models, Platform capitalism, Platform co-operavatism, Commons Transition, Fine Art Finance
This is an archive of all the blog posts and videos of MoneyLab #3 Failing Better, December 2016. All photos from MoneyLab#3: Failing Better can be found here, all videos are grouped here.
A pdf of the conference report is available here.
Below you can find panel-specific videos and blog posts:
Day 1 – Thursday 1st December
Introduction by Geert Lovink (video).
Session 1. Global Finance: Failing Better? (blog)
- Geert Lovink: Moderator (Q&A video)
- Alex Foti: After We’ve Seized the Eurotower: What to Do with All the Money? (video)
- Menno Grootveld: DiEM25 (video)
- Renzo Martens: Can Artistic Engagement With Global Inequality Bring Sustainable Economic Growth to One of the Most Disenfranchised Places in the World? (video)
- Cassie Thorton: Mystery Hands: A Project for Children to Interact with Finance and Understand Debt (video)
Session 2. When Art Mirrors Marx (blog)
- Stephanie Rothenberg: Moderator (video) (Q&A video)
- Steyn Bergs: Imagination and Intervention: The Double Legacy of Marx in Art (video)
- Dan Mihaltianu: Das Kapital – Distillation (video)
- Tori Abernathy: Transition to a Perpetual Parade (video)
- Jeroen van Loon: Cellout.me: DNA Sequence for Sale! (video)
- Anne Breure: Ethics in Aesthetics: Towards a Fair Practice in the Arts Sector (video)
Workshop 1. How Can Accountants Save the World? (blog)
- Frank Jan de Graaf
- Nick McGuigan
- Thomas Kern
- Herman Gels
Workshop 2. Politics of the Cyphersphere: After the Blockchain Revolution (blog)
- RIAT
- Fiber
- Brett Scott
- Martijn van Boven
- Richard Kohl
Workshop 3. Prevailing Over Money (blog)
- Dmytri Kleiner
- Baruch Gottlieb
Session 3. Save the Last Dance? (blog)
- Max Dovey: Moderator (Q&A video)
- Henry Warwick: The Uncanny Valley of Music and Economic Debris (video)
- Koos Zwaan: Making Music and Money Online (video)
- Bindu De Knock: Can Blockchain Save the Music Industry? (video)
Fiscal Drag Live (blog)
- Max Haiven & Cassie Thornton: The University of the Phoenix Eulogy for Excellence Dinner
- Fine Art Financ€ Lab: Funancial Exercises
- Tori Abernathy: The Demi
Day 2 – Friday 2nd December
Session 4. Cooperatives and the Commons (blog)
- Sabine Niederer: Moderator (video) (Q&A video)
- Trebor Scholz: Platform Cooperativism: a Realistic, Near-Future Alternative to Extractive Platform Capitalism (video)
- Arthur Röing Baer: Commune (video)
- Michel Vogler: Gebiedonline and Hallo IJburg (video)
Session 5. Big Pocket is Watching You! (blog)
- Nathaniel Tkacz: Moderator (video) (Q&A video)
- Brett Scott: The War on Cash (video)
- Nathalie Maréchal: First They Came for the Poor: Surveillance of Welfare Recipients as an Uncontested Practice (video)
- Geert Lovink and Brett Scott in conversation with Surajit Mazumdar (video).
- Emily Rosamond: Financial Witness: Investing in Rehabilitation in an Actuarial Age (video)
- Austin Houldsworth: Incongruous Monetary Matters (video)
Workshop 4. Governance in the Age of Blockchains and Digital Currencies (blog)
- Richard Kohl
- Justin Bons
- Emanuele Braga
- Roberto Valenti
- Susanne Tarkowski-Tempelhof
- Dr. Balázs Bodó
Workshop 5. Flexonomic District Currency Game (blog)
- Jens Martignoni
- Panayotis Antoniadis
- Ileana Apostol
Workshop 6. Role Play Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss (blog)
- Ruth Catlow
- Ben Vickers