Yearly Archives: 2015

Paolo Cirio: Daily Paywall & Loophole4All

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 14, 2015

By Joana Chicau Paolo Cirio is an Italian conceptual artist and hacktivist. His work is essentially building on a critical theory of information power and how that impacts the dynamics of social structures among individuals, governments and corporations. He investigates fields related to copyright, privacy, finance democracy and cyber-security, which then take the shape of [...]

DullTech™: Neoliberal hardware lulz

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 14, 2015

By Karina Zavidova & Anastasia Kubrak DullTech™ is a hardware startup, dedicated to once and for all solve frustrations that contemporary artists encounter using technology. Mo more stress or drama in making a video installation for an exhibition or an art-fair; no more remote controls or expensive AVI professionals to hire. DullTech™ media player effortlessly loops [...]

Degenerated Political Art by Núria Güell & Levi Orta

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 14, 2015

By Michaela Lakova Barcelona-based artists Núria Güell (ES) and Levi Orta (CU) presented two of their works: “Arte Político Degenerado“ (2014) and “Arte Político Degenerado Protocolo ético”(2014). The works are part of a series called Replica Analitica which aims to reproduce strategies and structures deployed by capitalism in order to analyze, expose and use them [...]

Raluca Croitoru: Immaterial Institute of Research and Experimentation

By Max Dovey, December 11, 2015

Immaterial Institute of Research and Experimentation by Delaney Clark The fourth presenter of the Artistic Interventions in Finance panel was Raluca Croitoru. In her performance piece, she took the stage as representative of the Immaterial Institute of Research and Experimentation. By looking at different methods of recording transactions that developed throughout time, the research collective [...]

Primavera de Filippi: Blockchain Technology as Distributed Governance Tool

By Max Dovey, December 11, 2015

Primavera de Filippi: Blockchain Technology as Distributed Governance Tool By Anissa Jousset “The modern way in which artists are collaborating and producing is actually going against the traditional conception of copyright.” Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center [...]

Stephanie Rothenberg: Reversal of Fortune: Visualizing Marketized Philanthropy

By patricia, December 11, 2015

Stephanie Rothenberg: Reversal of Fortune: Visualizing Marketized Philanthropy By Felix Clasbrummel “What does it mean to be philantropic by the click of a button?” Reversal of Fortune is the name of American artist Stephanie Rothenberg’s series of art-installations, which she presented during the panel on Artistic Interventions in Finance at MoneyLab#2.     ‘Fortune’ designates [...]

EquityBot by Scott Kildall

By Max Dovey, December 11, 2015

I’m an Artist, not a Business Person By Dominique Verschragen And as an artist, Scott Kildall emphasizes that everything is tradable, even human feelings. On his website Scott Kildall describes himself as a cross-disciplinary artist who writes algorithms that transform various datasets into 3D sculptures and installations. At MoneyLab#2 he presents his project EquityBot, an [...]

Algorithmic Autonomy: Freedom and the Blockchain by David Golumbia

By patricia, December 11, 2015

Algorithmic Autonomy: Freedom and the Blockchain By Felix Clasbrummel  The closing note of the Blockchain: Revolution or Business as Usual panel given by David Golumbia served both as a meta-commentary and a critical reminder to the panels’ topic. Introducing himself as a political-philosopher and a conceptual thinker Golumbia voiced the danger that technology has the [...]

Robert van Boeschoten: Negotiating Trust on Crowdfunding Platforms

By Max Dovey, December 11, 2015

By Felix Clasbrummel Robert van Boeschoten, researcher and lecturer at Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Universiteit voor Humanistiek, was in for his second round at the MoneyLab. During the MoneyLab’s first edition, he presented his Crowdfunding Toolkit (which you still can find on the INC’s website), a useful tool for aspiring crowd-founders to identify the right [...]

Jip de Ridder: A New P-2-P Insurance Model is Born: CommonEasy

By patricia, December 11, 2015

By Anastasia Kubrak Jip & Florian de Ridder are young entrepreneurs, determined to disrupt current economic system with their new decentralized peer-to-peer insurance model called CommonEasy. While studying economics, Jip discovered that 80% of young self-employed in the Netherlands simply couldn’t afford an illness and income disability insurance. Meanwhile, commercial insurance companies take up to a [...]