MoneyLab | MoneyLab 8: streaming series 11 May

Initially planned as an IRL conference, MoneyLab #8 has been reformulated as a series of weekly streaming events to be held every Monday at 5 PM CET.

All information about the events, program, and speakers can be found at aksioma.org/moneylab8. This is also where the events will be streamed.

11 May 2020
Critical Finance Strategies, Three Months into the Corona Crisis
Brett Scott, Geert Lovink

18 May 2020
The Geopolitics of Financial Inclusion: Big Tech and the Golden Straightjacket of Digital Payments
Evgeny Morozov, Lenart J. Kučić

25 May 2020
What Lies Behind Bitcoin: the Rise and Promise of Blockchain Computational Systems
Denis ‘Jaromil’ Roio, Inte Gloerich

1 June 2020
Care: Solidarity is Disobedience
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Cassie Thornton, Maddalena Fragnito, Davor Mišković

8 June 2020
Housing: Hacking the Crisis of Home
Lenart J. Kučić, Forms of Ownership, DOMA.CITY, Klemen Ploštajner

15 June 2020
Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft
RYBN.ORG, Demystification Committee, Anuška Delić

22 June 2020
Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination
Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Haiven, Martin Zeilinger

29 June 2020
The Work of Art in the Age of Decentralised Trust
César Escudero Andaluz & Martín Nadal

Interview with Rachel O’Dwyer about Tokens, The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

By Geert Lovink, June 8, 2024

It is said that money is being replaced by tokens. Think of phone credit, airtime, gift vouchers or game tokens. Platforms see themselves as the new banks, generating and controlling new flows of value. Irish scholar and co-editor of Neural magazine Rachel O’Dwyer has recently published an insightful study on the matter. In her book [...]

BLOCKCHAIN: AFTER PROTOCOLS Special issue of Espace – art actue

By Geert Lovink, May 6, 2024

—Call for Contributions— Edited by Nathalie Casemajor in collaboration with Erik Bordeleau https://espaceartactuel.com/en/call/ In 2023 the Centre Pompidou acquired a group of works dealing with the relations between blockchain and artistic creation. Most of the works consist of Net Art, which relies on internet connectivity protocols. Curators Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli situate them within [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 18)

By Geert Lovink, April 30, 2024

‘Dubai’s Fyre Festival’: Crypto investors caught in chaotic UAE floods https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dubai-fyre-festival-crypto-investors-chaotic-floods Molly White (x2) on Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence, 25 years in jail https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced/ On the Brink of a Dramatic Change: The Digitalization of Money https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/on-the-brink-of-a-dramatic-change-the-digitalization-of-money Stuart Kells: Alice™ – The biggest untold story in the history of money (via Patrice Riemens) https://www.mup.com.au/books/alice-electronic-book-text Introducing Composer, [...]