Posts By: patricia

Please join the first MoneyLab General Assembly on November 15 at Tolhuistuin

By patricia, November 7, 2019

Please join the first MoneyLab General Assembly When? 15 November 2019 Where?  Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam  What time? 5:30pm – 7:00pm Why? To identify key issues and urgent additions and set up collaborations MoneyLab is dedicated to understanding the socio-political implications of and developments in digital economy and financial technologies and to experiment with forms of financial [...]

MoneyLab#5: Matters of Currency: Slime Mold, Token Fetish, and WombCoins

By patricia, May 1, 2018

The year 2018 proves to be a very good year for financial art and activism. For the fourth edition of MoneyLab, last January, we left the EU and went to London. And with the fifth edition of MoneyLab: Matters of Currency, the project left the Old Continent to wing its way to a Buffalo, NY.  [...]

Enric Duran: Economic Disobedience

By patricia, December 17, 2015

By Felix Clasbrummel Being known as the ‘Robin Hood of banks’ and being searched for by the Spanish government for taking out funds of Spanish banks worth more than €500.000, which, allegedly, he donated to grassroots movements, he could not attend the conference in person. “I Will be online […]” Enric Duran tweeted three days [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]