The ALGOFFSHORE series of flowcharts (RYBN.ORG, 2017-2021) appearing here in book format presents five ready-to-use strategies for evading taxes or social and environmental obligations. While the systems proposed in this publication only exist virtually, they are intentionally activable. En passant, these flowcharts document how contemporary financial engineering allows multinationals and enterprises to optimize profits, render transactions opaque, maximize anonymity, and circumvent all kinds of regulations hindering the smooth circulation—and ultimately the accumulation—of capital. As such, the present publication can be seen as a tactical manual for the art of evasion.
With an article by Pekko Koskinen and interviews of Citizens Against Bank Exploitation (CABE), Le Freeport, Melle Smets, Lora Verheecke. Graphic design by JB Parré.
BIOGRAPHIES
CITIZENS AGAINST BANK EXPLOITATION (CABE) is an organization based in Nassau, Bahamas, which has long petitioned the Bahamian government to compel commercial banks to reduce the fees they charge Bahamian consumers. The organization is represented by Dr. Denotrah Archer-Cartwright, its president, and Glen P. Rolle. More
Pekko Koskinen (re)designs conventional realities into playable forms, using the broad range of social mechanisms conceived in games. His designs have lead to fictional religions and other social forms, conceptual tools, self-designs and economies. Much of his work has taken place outside of accredited institutions. Some has been conventionalized into art, and has been exhibited in institutions such as Athens and Mercosul Biennials, Volksbühne and NY MoMA. He is a member of YKON, and has co-directed Reality Research Center. He has also co-founded SoSA (Social Space Agency), ECSA (Economic Space Agency) and most recently an organizational organism called XORG. Since 2016, he has worked in ECSA, developing new economic and organizational architectures. More
Jean-Baptiste Parré is working in the fields of graphic design and visual identities, mainly with architects, designers, artists, art centers, museums and editors. The studio produces books, catalogs, magazines, websites, signages and everything that needs visual and design solutions. More
RYBN.ORG (1999) is an artist collective based in Paris, conducting extradisciplinary investigations on complex systems and phenomena within the realms of economics and cybernetics: high-frequency trading, financial algorithms, flash crashes and market infrastructures, tax avoidance schemes and offshore financial circuits, artificial artificial intelligence and digital labor, nudging and the exploit of cognitive biases. More
Melle Smets is active as a researcher, artist and critic, specialized in creating new meeting places within public space. In doing so, he starts from existing social structures and local customs. In his view, these relationships with the living environment provoke questions of identity, ownership and community. He researches and exploresthese questions in search of a foundation for a well-functioning society. Action Research is his method, namely by ‘looking hard’ and developing an alternative view of the environment, thereby converting ideas into action. To achieve this, he collaborates with artists, designers, scientists, companies and governments. More
Lora Verheecke is a Brussels-based researcher focusing on EU corporate lobbying. She currently works for the Observatoire des Multinationales, a French lobby watchdog. More
CREDITS
Editor: RYBN.ORG
Graphic design: Jean-Baptiste Parre
Authors: RYBN.ORG, Pekko Koskinen, Melle Smets, Lora Verheecke, CABE (Citizens Against Bank Exploitation)
Translator: Arby Gharibian
Text editor: Marion Lissarrague
Advisors: Tarek Issaoui (RRose Editions), Freek Lomme (Set Margins’)
Printer: Balto print, Lithuania
Co-production: m-cult, European Media Artist in Residence Exchange (EMARE)
Co-publication: RRose Editions and Set Margins’
172 pages. 13.5 x 21.6 cm. Otabind. Printed on Olin Storm Grey.
Language: English ISBN : 978-90-834498-2-1 | 22€
Distribution: Set Margins’
Distribution France: RRose Editions