Yearly Archives: 2015

Paul Radu: Bringing the Dark Side of Money to Light

By patricia, December 11, 2015

Bringing the Dark Side of Money to Light By Anastasia Kubrak “What we do is simple: we follow money” Paul Radu is an investigative reporter and the executive director of the The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Radu opened his talk with the presentation of “The Russian Laundromat”: a complex system for laundering more [...]

Kickended and the Competitive Aesthetics of Failure by Silvio Lorusso

By patricia, December 11, 2015

Kickended and the Competitive Aesthetics of Failure By Anissa Jousset  Artist, designer, and researcher Silvio Lorusso presented his project Kickended during the panel on Artistic Interventions in Finance. Kickended brings a new dimension to the definition of failure. The Kickended project, a Kickstarter clone consisting of Kickstarter campaigns that collected zero dollars, he creates an exposé of the influence of money [...]

Max Haiven: Avenging Money

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, December 11, 2015

Avenging Money by Delaney Clark The “Avenging Money” workshop on Thursday afternoon was guided by Max Haiven, a writer and Assistant Professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada. His research focuses on economic and political studies applied to society and culture. This [...]

Jim Costanzo: Free Money Movement & The Commons

By patricia, December 10, 2015

Free Money Movement & The Commons By Anissa Jousset During his workshop at MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent Jim Costanzo, associate professor of Photography and Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute and founding director of the Aaron Burr Society examines the different facets of resistance and financial revolutions through alternative austerity movements. Costanzo’s Free Money Movement [...]

Dmytri Kleiner & Baruch Gottlieb join MoneyLab#2 to talk about Venture Communism

By patricia, December 2, 2015

This Friday afternoon at the MoneyLab#2:Economies of Dissent symposium, Dmytri Kleiner and Baruch Gottlieb present instruments for Venture Communism. Venture Communism is a means to construct a new society in the bosom of the old; to extract value from the capitalist exploitation chain and and put this value to use for the benefit of the many. Venture [...]

10 Bitcoin Myths

By Geert Lovink, November 30, 2015

By Eduard de Jong, Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens “Pigs will fly, but not in the next 100 million years.” Johan Sjerpstra 1. “Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer system.” In order to transfer value from one Bitcoin account to another, the owner of bitcoins uses the services of a collective of operators known as ‘miners’ who [...]

Money 2020

By Max Dovey, November 30, 2015

  Money is incredibly personal. Money is the fuel that drives the dreams and ambitions of fathers and mothers. Money is the fuel that fires the best aspirations amongst all of us. The revolution in financial services is not about tapping the phone versus swiping the card; it’s much more profound. Dan Schulman, PayPal, Money [...]

Unpacking Platform Cooperativism

By Max Dovey, November 26, 2015

Last week the New School in New York hosted a two-day symposium that set out to explore how the internet can be changed to create new democratic structures and social commons. The conference hosted a range of speakers from Micheal Bauwens, Yochai Benker and two that will be at Moneylab next weekend, Rachel O’ Dwyer [...]

MoneyLab program booklet is finalized

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, November 23, 2015

Femke Herregraven delivered a beautiful program booklet for MoneyLab#2: Economies of Dissent, happening next week on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December at Pakhuis de Zwijger. Tickets are on sale here

What’s wrong with the ‘Get played, Get paid’ campaign.

By Max Dovey, November 16, 2015

‘Get played, Get paid’ is the slogan of a campaign that gathered at Amsterdam Dance Event last month and aims to change the revenue model for musician’s royalties and performing rights organisations. Launched in 2014, the campaign brings together tech companies and music publishers to create better revenue models for musicians. Every recorded song that [...]