Posts By: Leila Ueberschlag

Save the Last Dance

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Anissa Jousset In the age of digital technologies and increasingly intangible goods, the relationship of arts and the internet has become a critical concern for any artist or musician trying to make a living within the creative industries. During the panel discussion Save The Last Dance, Henry Warwick, Koos Zwaan and Bindu De Knock [...]

When Art Mirrors Marx

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Karina Zavidova  “When Art Mirrors Marx” reflected on the subject of money as a social technology and presented the array of tools, techniques and methodologies, designed to transform classic philosophical thought into applied practice. It was moderated by Stephanie Rothenberg, who highlighted the abundance of economy-related artistic projects and asked the participants and the audience [...]

Telegram from Bologna: Towards a Monetary Holocaust?

By Leila, November 30, 2016

BY FRANCO BERARDI In a booklet published in 2014 with the title Capitalism a ghost story Arundathy Roy tells some interesting stories about the evolution of India in the neoliberal age: “When those who had been evicted went back where they came from, they found their villages had disappeared under great dams and dusty quarries. [...]

MoneyLab#3 Failing Better: Discover “No Hidden Costs” Exhibition

By Leila, November 29, 2016

The MoneyLab #3 exhibition displays hidden or forgotten financial artifacts, from abandoned places to concealed networks, No Hidden Costs catalogues people and places that were once centers for power and governance. By contrasting a selection of financial artifacts alongside speculative prototypes that allude to the future of money, No Hidden Costs highlights the continual disintegration and reincarnation of [...]

MoneyLab Reader #2: We reached 10% of our goal with €514 collected

By Leila, November 28, 2016

We are happy to announce that, thanks to the support of our network and donors from all around the world, we just passed the critical first 10% of our goal with €545 collected.  If you think that cultural institutions shouldn’t need to resort to crowdfunding in order to produce and disseminate critical knowledge, this first-ever [...]

Kick off of the MoneyLab Reader #2 Crowdfunding Campaign

By Leila, November 24, 2016

Amid international developments like the rise of post-globalized sovereign populism, perpetual austerity cuts to state and government sectors and the global race among the world’s leading banks to turn blockchain into the infrastructure of the 21st century, we feels that it is about time to produce a second MoneyLab reader (the first one can be [...]

INC partners with Analogy: Platform-Minded Publishing

By Leila, November 22, 2016

While Amazon has been claiming that the book is not dead, one would have some doubts saying the same about the publishing industry. A paradigm shift is taking place and many, if not most publishers are struggling with the harsh reality of losing sovereignty. Is it still possible to run a sustainable business as an [...]

Do you Want to Witness the Encounter between Geert Lovink and Hannah Arendt? Come to Moneylab #3

By Leila, November 21, 2016

MoneyLab #3 is in two weeks and we are excited to present our evening program. It will take place at Mezrab on Thursday 1 of December at 7 pm, after a first day of panel discussions on global finance and how to fail better, on the music industry and its revenue models as well as [...]

Join our six workshops at MoneyLab #3 to explore the depths of the economic system and map alternatives

By Leila, November 10, 2016

MoneyLab #3 draws closer and, at three weeks from the event, we are particularly happy to present the six workshops that will take place between panel discussions on Universal Basic Income, Cooperatives and the Commons or Financial Surveillance and artworks. Join us on the 1st and 2nd of December at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. See the full program here [...]

Watchdog Journalism Sites Count on the Support of Loyal Users

By Leila, November 3, 2016

Worldwide, media companies are embracing new digital opportunities trying to find strategies that will enable them to become profitable. If the production and distribution of digital journalism is now well established, the question of how to make money with it in this digital age is still unanswered. So far, no model has proved to be [...]